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To the editor: I read the LMH Health article Sunday on health “inclusiveness, diversity and equity” in disbelief because the topic of disability as an equity issue was not included along with “religion, color of their skin, or who they love.” In fact, it was totally omitted. This, ...
To the editor: On Wednesday, Froma Harrop informed readers in her editorial “Threatening librarians is barbaric” that our good legislators to the east of us in Missouri have passed a measure that librarians could be put behind bars for having books in their libraries that local ...
To the editor: I don’t suppose this letter will change the outcome, though I wish it could. My purpose is to consider the consequences of what it seems we will do. By closing three schools the Lawrence School District calculated it would save around $1 million. Best I can tell, the ...
To the editor: What an amazing city we live in. Fireworks after the Super Bowl spooked our 9-year-old shepherd malamute mix name Maddie. She broke the gate on our fenced back yard and was gone. Between social media, great neighbors and dog trappers Rusty Holliday and Patty Davis, the search ...
To the editor: On Feb. 25, the Journal-World’s front-page headline announced that the Lawrence school superintendent named four Lawrence schools to possibly close. This was the district’s recommendation after five months of public and school committee meetings where some participants ...
To the editor: The ongoing efforts to close elementary schools and those in neighborhoods without the wealth of west Lawrence is obscene. Despite the success of schools like Woodlawn in preparing generations of students to graduate from college in medicine, law, education, engineering and ...