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To the editor: Residents on streets adjoining Bob Billings west of Kasold have been waiting more than a month for work to recommence on a reconstruction project that began in the spring, one of many such projects around town. An LJW article published on July 16 quoted a source indicating ...
To the editor: The $350,000 home valuation cap for the Homestead program was added in 2007 (19 years ago), while the SAFESR program itself was created shortly after in 2008 with the same $350,000 valuation cap built into it. The value of our homes drastically increase every year, while the ...
To the editor: Jamie Stiehm’s column of Aug. 9 about Richard Nixon transported me back to August 1974 as my family gathered around our portable black and white television to watch a president resign. Living in northern Virginia, we were inundated with Watergate coverage from nearby ...
To the editor: The proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution to change how Supreme Court justices are selected must be rejected on Aug. 4. Our government is based on a system of checks and balances, dividing power among the legislative, executive and judicial branches so no single branch ...
To the editor: To the owners of the LJWorld, Ogden Newspapers of Kansas, from some country road or another in West Virginia, please know that two seminal events in our town’s history happened fifty six years ago this month. The killings of Rick “Tiger” Dowdell and Harry “Nick” Rice ...
To the editor: A recent exchange over the proposed solar farm accused a supporter of the farm of, essentially, being a city person who doesn’t understand farming and doesn’t love the land. As it happens, the person described is an organic farmer living and working on a small organic farm ...