Opinion

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Opinion: Haley voters could be key for Biden

Barack Obama got it right. He refused to be held captive to his party’s left wing. He adopted a strenuous policy of border enforcement, even as some Latino activists threatened to withhold their support for him. He had tense relations with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, but when ...

Opinion: When deriding DEI is really an attack on civil rights

“DEI mayor.” That’s how a troll on X, formerly Twitter, labeled a news clip of Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott delivering an update on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was struck by a massive cargo ship. “It’s going to be so, so much worse,” the tweet ...

Letter to the editor: Approve the solar farm

To the editor: County commissioners and Lawrence residents have been hearing impassioned pleas from neighbors and artists claiming devotion to clean energy but wanting a relocation of the northern solar farm project. Has anyone suggested an alternative flat property with grid connection? This ...

Letter to the editor: If not there, then where?

To the editor: Thank you for your continued coverage of the proposed Kansas Sky Energy Center. Opponents of the project say they are not against renewable energy in Douglas County; they just think it should be located somewhere else. Where? Where can they find 1,100 contiguous acres of ...

Letter to the editor: Catch & release

To the editor: If you read the reports of various crimes around this area (especially those with violence), there’s a disturbing pattern. A majority of the suspects have multiple prior convictions and are out on probation. Kudos to our judicial system for being ecologically sound. They have ...

Letter to the editor: Move the soil?

To the editor: Like some other people on the fringe of the North Lawrence solar project issue, I’m conflicted. My opinion is that the proposed site is a good one for the project; except for the prime ag land there, I am an ardent supporter of preserving. (When I worked for the Lawrence ...