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To the editor: In most news regarding vaccination status, mask mandates and hospital bed availability, there is little mention of one human’s responsibility for infecting another. The arguments for vaccination stress the need to contain the pandemic. Arguments for wearing masks stress the ...
To the editor: It is time for fiscal responsibility by the city, county and school district by discerning true “needs” versus “wants.” Proof of need should be required for all major expenditures, and questions of cost effectiveness answered before raising the mill levy and increasing ...
To the editor: The COVID situation is getting right back to where it was at its height. Thousands are dying each day. The rate of infection is one of the worst in the world. It was reported that some Southern states were begging KU’s hospital to accept patients they could not treat. The ...
To the editor: Before more damage is done to downtown now is the time to make a change! Probably a bus transfer station is not needed or ever will be but the City Commission is intent on bragging about something. Locate the “transfer station” at the old site of Channel 6 News. It is ...
To the editor: Thank you to our county commissioners and health officials who endured a barrage of insults and statements of misinformation before approving a health order requiring children ineligible for vaccination to wear masks while indoors. I appreciate that these public servants ...
To the editor: I understand the need to invest in utility infrastructure as discussed in the recent article about proposed rate hikes for water, sewer, storm water and solid waste. However, the article did not address an important item for the public to understand about the performance of ...