Opinion

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Letter to the editor: Your vote matters so much

To the editor: I cringe when someone tells me they won’t vote in this election. That decision not only gives up your voting right, it could do harm to family, friends and neighbors. Even if you don’t feel a need to vote, your vote could benefit others. Your vote will help preserve ...

Opinion: Housing needed, not a football stadium

Kansas policymakers are abuzz about the recent defeat of a sports stadium tax in Jackson County, Missouri. Unfortunately, they’re saying all the wrong things. To paraphrase James Carville, “It’s affordable housing, stupid.” If the tax had been approved, the money would have gone to ...

Opinion: Biden trails Trump; his problems go beyond ‘issues’

A batch of new polls from the New York Times, Siena College and the Philadelphia Inquirer has very bad news for President Biden: He’s losing. Among registered voters, he’s significantly behind in five of the six battleground states that are most likely to decide the election. He does ...

Opinion: Trump the dude? Yeah, not so much

“Stormy Daniels Put Trump’s Toxic Horniness on Full Display,” read a Daily Beast headline. What has really been put on display is Donald Trump’s desperate need to portray himself as a hunk with an awesome sex drive. He’s done that his entire adult life. Now that he’s an obese man ...

Opinion: DEI strategies are due for a change

Reports of the death of DEI, the widely praised and reviled — take your pick — employment policies to improve diversity, equity and inclusion, have been greatly exaggerated, as Mark Twain famously said of reports of his own death. Still, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to ...