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Recently the city staff has received a recommendation from their site consultant to secure a new site for the location of City Hall. The site being recommended is the former Sally Mae site, located on the bluffs near Sixth and Iowa streets. This was a huge surprise to many of us. Allow me to ...
I have voted in favor of every bond issue ever proposed by the city, county or school district. I voted for the T, I voted for the library, I voted for the sales tax to support initiatives for affordable housing and homelessness in 2017, and 25-plus years ago I wrote a guest editorial in ...
Kansas ranked last in the “State of Mental Health in America 2023” report. The need for improved mental health care is impossible to ignore. Kansas took an important step to create social worker jobs and facilitate care across the state by joining the Social Work Licensure Compact in ...
In the early morning of July 5, 2018, a fire started in the kitchen of a second floor apartment in Lawrence, Kansas. Quickly, superheated gasses and smoke rose up a stairwell. When an upstairs neighbor opened their front door to investigate the odor, the smoke and heat rushed into his ...
On behalf of the Bert Nash Center, I wish to express and affirm our support for gender-affirming care within our community. As a long-standing organization deeply committed to promoting mental health and well-being for all individuals, we believe it is essential to affirm and support the ...
Rich Lowry, in his article (March 26) denouncing Bernie Sanders’ proposal to establish a four-day workweek, sums up his point at the end by saying, “Sanders’ idea is a frank expression of economic illiteracy” and “baldly ludicrous.” But Lowry’s reasons for thinking this are ...