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To the editor: I was driving downtown the other day and came to an intersection with a stop light. All the drivers waited their turns and proceeded as the lights directed. I thought this was nice. Very nice. At some point we as a society decided that we want to encourage safety and ...
To the editor: The time is now! It is urgent we make our voices heard and demand immediate and honest action from our elected Kansas legislators. Write and phone Congress, make signs, get on the street and protest, show your frustrations. Keep remembering those hurt by Trump’s destruction. ...
To the editor: In a previous letter, I noted how it is often hard to tell what the important issues are when a new administration comes in. This is especially true when many ideas previously dismissed as bizarre, ridiculous or kooky are presented as the new gospel. As a public service, I ...
To the editor: The recent decision to rescind grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts will be felt for years to come. As both an artist and an administrator, I have seen firsthand that public funding is essential to keeping the arts accessible for our community. Access to ...
To the editor: The Trump administration says it is trying to solve a crisis: our national budget deficit. It is doing that by firing (or eliminating the jobs of) thousands and thousands of federal workers, by gutting entire departments, by (illegally) rescinding funds appropriated by ...
To the editor: In Timothy Snyder’s book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” the very first lesson is “Do not obey in advance.” That describes when individuals and institutions think ahead about what a repressive government will want, and then offers themselves ...