The Washington Post, beginning Nov. 1, 2019, will allow its syndicated columns to appear only in print. The columns will still be available as part of our e-edition newspaper online, but they will not be available as separate pieces on our website, ljworld.com. These columnists include George Will, David Ignatius, Michael Gerson and others. This does not affect other columnists like Leonard Pitts, Mona Charen, Connie Schultz and Mark Shields, who are not affiliated with the Washington Post.
To the editor: A heartfelt thank you, Lawrence, for turning out for and supporting the Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade. It takes an army to produce this tradition, which is one of a kind. I want to recognize and thank each of the groups that make it happen: the Lawrence Police Department, the ...
It’s not 2016 again. President-elect Donald Trump is off to a strong start with markedly fewer obstructions than the last time he won. In football terms, he has a lot of green space ahead of him. In nautical terms, it’s plain sailing. In political terms, it might not be a honeymoon, ...
My brother-in-law recently sent a message to our family text chain, the members of whom rest somewhere on the political spectrum from solidly Democratic to more liberal than Mao Zedong. What do we think of this? He linked to a story about President Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter, who ...
To the editor: Gary Henry’s letter to the editor states that Trump prolonged the COVID pandemic and kept Americans dying. According to Statista, the 462,193 pandemic deaths in 2021 when Biden was president outnumbered those in 2020 (384,536) when there was no vaccine for most of that year ...
To the editor: I heard the cries wafting through the Just Food pantry before I saw the child. It was only after the mother and her toddler son finished their shopping and arrived at my volunteer post — the checkout desk — that I noticed his tear-stained cheeks. With one arm the mom ...
At a New York rally in October, Donald Trump promised the crowd that if elected, he would let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health, food and medicines. It delighted the crowd, who imagined they were cheering for better health and better medicine. They’re in for a bitter ...
