Opinion

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Opinion: How to protect our nation’s judges

One of our highest priorities in this darkness must be to protect the people who are doing the most right now to push back against Trump’s tyranny: our judiciary. In some 180 judicial rulings so far, federal judges have at least temporarily stopped Trump from (1) deporting and/or ...

Letter to the editor: A big, ugly lie

To the editor: The Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) is anything but. It is reshaping our form of government, which for all its flaws, has strived to improve the lives of Americans. This bill will do the opposite. As Heather Cox Richardson explains in Letter From An American, June 2, 2025: The ...

Letter to the editor: Heron death is a tragic reminder

To the editor: It breaks my heart to see a photo of a dead great blue heron on the front page of your May 28 issue. The accompanying article describes how it died after being tangled in an abandoned fishing line. Thank you for the tragic and important reminder of how our careless actions ...

Letter to the editor: Busker kudos

To the editor: A tardy note of thanks and big kudos to all those involved in planning and performing during Lawrence’s 17th Annual Busker Fest. What a grand weekend for outdoor entertainment! Many performers were simply amazing, and it was refreshing to see so many locals and visitors ...

Letter to the editor: Save democracy

To the editor: For anyone not yet familiar, inserted into the 2025 tax bill passed by the House was a provision throwing roadblocks into the courts’ ability to issue contempt orders for executive branch for noncompliance to judicial orders; if enforced, the provision would be retroactive, ...

Opinion: As Trump reigns, where are the Dems?

Where are the Democrats? What are they doing about the damage President Trump is doing to ... everything? I hear that a lot from my liberal friends these days, ever since Trump swept the battleground states six months ago and proceeded to dismantle government as we Americans used to know ...