Letters to The Lawrence Times are welcome and encouraged.
The Lawrence Times runs opinion columns and letters to the Times written by community members with varying perspectives on local issues. These pieces do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Times staff.
LETTERS TO THE TIMES
Letter to the Times: Lifting short-term rental cap could harm Lawrence residents
“The need for long-term rentals won’t decrease because the World Cup is coming and the need for short-term rentals is increasing,” Chris Flowers writes in this letter to the Times.
Letter to the Times: A 3-point plan to achieve more accessible and affordable housing
“Local data … makes clear that Lawrence needs more housing that is both affordable and accessible,” members of the Accessibility in Affordable Housing Workgroup write in this letter to the Times.
Letter to the Times: Raise the age for free rec center access
“Lawrence city commissioners should increase the age limit for youths to be eligible for free access to recreation facilities from 17 to 26,” Irene Ratzlaff Soderstrom writes in this letter to the Times.
Letter to the Times: 5 stars for An Evening with John Green
“Thank you, John Green, for spending a little time in Lawrence. We love the thinkers, the feelers, and we especially love those willing to lay it all out there — in a book, on a stage in front of a couple thousand of us on a Tuesday night in September,” Erika Gray writes in this letter.
Letter to the Times: To stop evictions and enforce renter protections, we need a tenant right to counsel
“Last year, at least 222 of our neighbors in Douglas County were evicted from their homes. … A right to counsel program helps all tenants,” Vince Munoz of Lawrence Tenants writes in this letter to the Times.
Letter to the Times: 82% of survey respondents oppose rec center fees
“Taxpayers are already supporting recreation centers in the taxes we pay every year, but the city commission believes that … rec center fees will somehow solve their budget deficit problems,” Carol Kummer writes in this letter to the Times.
Letter to the Times: A costly stunt for sports
“Everything we rely on — our supermarkets; our meds; our air conditioners and heat pumps; our vehicles … — does damage. What we don’t rely on is military aircraft performing ear-splitting flyovers in the name of intercollegiate sports,” Randi Hacker writes in this letter to the Times.
Letter to the Times: A slippery slope to exclusion and censorship
“Compelling individuals to erase their gender identity or refrain from acknowledging the identities of others under threat of state pressure violates core constitutional principles,” Marshall Maude writes in this letter to the Times.
Letter to the Times: They want us to stay quiet. We can’t
“What happens when the people in power make a major decision that affects all of us, but don’t tell us about it? What happens when they don’t ask for our input, don’t open the floor for conversation, and then act as if it is too late to question it?” Micha Anne Cox writes in this letter to the Times.
Letter to the Times: An action plan to comply with identity erasure
“On Tuesday, the public announcement came that as an employee at a state-funded university I would no longer be able to list my pronouns on any work-related communications. In other words, my identity is not appropriate for work,” — writes in this letter to the Times.
Letter to the Times: Why a KU professor includes her pronouns in her email signature
“Naming one’s pronouns does no harm to anyone, and it supports every KU student on campus,” Amii Castle, a KU professor, writes in this letter to the Times.
Letter to the Times: KU’s decisions on DEI, pronouns in emails are embarrassing, shameful
“We should be ashamed of turning our backs on our colleagues and erasing their identities,” Michael Amlung writes in this letter to the Times.
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