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When culture-war battles reach a fevered pitch as they have in this year’s legislative session, a dynamic is created that makes rational decisions difficult. Legislation passed under such circumstances can result in, frankly, a mess. As of Monday, the future of Kansas students is at stake ...
To the editor: Thank you to the unions for calling out the Lawrence school board and administration for their “let them eat cake” arrogance. The administration should absolutely take the same painful cuts as they and the school board are asking of students, parents and staff. To ask ...
To the editor: Rich Lowry expressed great concern in his column last week: “Rewriting Books is Cultural Vandalism.” One of the authors he cited as getting a rewrite was Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond. I remember reading all of Fleming’s Bond books in my high school chemistry ...
To the editor: I read the LMH Health article Sunday on health “inclusiveness, diversity and equity” in disbelief because the topic of disability as an equity issue was not included along with “religion, color of their skin, or who they love.” In fact, it was totally omitted. This, ...
I’m not surprised that migrant children who have been coming into the United States from Latin America without their parents, fleeing violence and poverty, have ended up in some of the most punishing jobs in the country. And I’m not surprised that a train carrying dangerous chemicals ...
To the editor: On Wednesday, Froma Harrop informed readers in her editorial “Threatening librarians is barbaric” that our good legislators to the east of us in Missouri have passed a measure that librarians could be put behind bars for having books in their libraries that local ...