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To the editor: The City of Lawrence has a new policy for the homeless. You seriously think this plan will succeed? Take a moment and ask yourself why the military conducts covert operations. By doing so, the enemy doesn’t know what’s going on. So, just because these people are homeless ...
To the editor: Both major parties play to voters’ fears, claiming that victory by their opponents would be disastrous. Unfortunately, both parties are right. Economic policies proposed by both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris defy economic history and reason. The relationships among supply, ...
To the editor: As the city commissioners look at the budget for the coming year, let’s not repeat the mistakes of the past. It is beyond belief that for several years in a row you accepted a revenue view that grossly inflates sales tax revenue. Avoid this mismanagement and do your job to ...
To the editor: I'm writing this letter in regard to the raising of property taxes, fire protection and other expenses. For years I've been the vice president of the North Lawrence Improvement Association. When city staff, fire and medical and city commissioners have attended our meetings, ...
To the editor: Regarding the 4-to-3 reduction in firefighters, are decisionmakers forgetting that a Southern Star natural gas transmission line weaves its way through Lawrence? I saw the diameter of that line when pipe was replaced in my neighborhood several years ago. It was sobering. And ...
To the editor: The University of Kansas and the Lawrence community should be awfully proud of KU's head track and field coach, Stanley Redwine, for the outstanding job he and his coaching staff did at the recent Olympic Games in Paris. Coach Redwine has consistently done an exceptional job ...