Your Turn

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Your Turn: Social Work Licensure Compact puts Kansas’ mental health first

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 ...

Your Turn: Proposed cuts put residents, firefighters at risk

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 ...

Your Turn: Support gender-affirming care in our community

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 ...

Your turn: Misrepresentation of socialism is a classic straw man fallacy

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 ...

Your Turn: Biden must be more presidential, less political

Barring something unforeseen, it is clear Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be the Democratic and Republican candidates for president in 2024. This despite a large percentage of Americans not wanting to see these two men face each other again. It is also clear this election will occur when our ...

Your Turn: Don’t put solar plant on uniquely valuable farmland

As a former Douglas County commissioner, I want to commend the county for its effort to lead on renewable energy. I know from experience it’s hard work, even painful, to bring big, new ideas forward and then be met with opposition. Unfortunately, I find myself on that side of the county these ...