Along with a few of my academic colleagues, I organize our university’s Constitution Day event around Sept. 17 — the anniversary of the completion of the proposed U.S. Constitution at the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 — each year. Constitution Day doesn’t get the ...

It seems imprudent for Lawrence to impose a two-year moratorium on data center development. It seems prudent that every city in America impose a two- year moratorium on data center development. I’m beginning to think my intelligence is artificial because I’m tending to believe both ...

The pragmatic thing to do would be to scrap this KU-Mizzou rivalry. However, pragmatism doesn’t show up often on the game plan of college athletics. For instance, the universities of Kansas and Missouri in fiscal year ‘24-’25 spent a combined $339 million to provide the educational ...

I remember the call. The city manager told me to buckle up. A rezoning for a smelly new potato-salad factory was coming my way. On a street with nothing but houses. My life as a planner flashed before me like the grainy black and white final scene of “Frankenstein” — angry village mobs ...

Like nearly everyone my age, when the calendar turns to Sept. 11, I think about where I was on that day. Unlike many, presumably, I also wonder about deer hunting. For that, I have to thank the small community of Anthony — a town of about 2,100 people an hour south of Wichita. In September ...

In the aftermath of the horrific Winfield murder-suicide that claimed the lives of four children, neighbor Lisa Spoon did what citizens are supposed to do in a democracy. She contacted her elected representatives and asked them to consider changes to state law that would prohibit convicted ...