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OPINION COLUMNS

Ulysses Clayborn: Why renting to subsidized tenants is good business for Kansas — and every state (Column)

“The issue — property owners holding on tightly to unfounded myths about subsidized renters rather than leaning into the facts — is a problem with a solution. We can debunk these myths and lessen their grasp upon voucher holders’ ability to find homes,” Ulysses Clayborn writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

Dot Nary: Despite Kansas state rep’s view, disabled people will not ‘rot at home’ (Column)

”Rep. Sean Tarwater, a Stilwell Republican, described some of his constituents as ’people who really can’t do anything … they will rot at home.’ … I want to address the prejudicial attitude revealed in his statement and his stereotypical and outdated view of some of the people he was elected to represent: disabled people,” Dot Nary writes in this column.

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Eric Thomas: Bill Self’s illness reminds us how much he has accomplished as Kansas head coach (Column)

”The University of Kansas men’s basketball team and its fans face the prospect of entering the postseason with head coach Bill Self away from the bench. It’s a striking absence — hopefully temporary — for a program that has been defined by its head coach,” Eric Thomas writes in this Kansas Reflector column.