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To the editor: Recently, Kansas joined 16 other states in filing a lawsuit, Texas v. Becerra, to declare Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act unconstitutional. This law guarantees, among other rights, that disabled students are treated fairly. The lawsuit, as well as the proposed dismantling ...
To the editor: This is a quotation from one of Donald Trump’s first executive orders: “Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.” And these are a few of the words in the long list that the New York Times found flagged for avoidance in government documents and ...
To the editor: This Elon Musk idiotic chaos must stop! The courts are trying, but here’s an alternate plan. Musk should immediately return to his first love, don his spacesuit, board one of his spacecrafts and embark on the half-year journey to Mars. On the way he could busy himself writing ...
To the editor: The members of the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Lawrence would like to share the letter it recently sent to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine: When we witnessed how our president and vice president behaved toward you at the ...
To the editor: In 1912, Teddy Roosevelt swept to victory in Republican primaries. But party bosses controlling the nomination wanted no more championing of merit over party patronage; or helping coal miners against owners; or saving national parks from foresting and mining interests; or ...
To the editor: President Trump touts his “astronomical achievements,” but can anyone calculate the waste being committed by the mindless actions of his (and Elon Musk’s) administration, including its Department of (so-called) “Government Efficiency”? Is the waste even calculable? ...