”Not one person is better because he or she earned a million dollars or a billion dollars. That wealth buys comfort and corruption, but it cannot buy virtue,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
”Turnaround, you see, works as another tool to silence dissent and make inconvenient bills disappear,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
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”Even after the abuse, after the violent slaying, the system failed (Sarah Gonzales-McLinn). The judge in her murder trial didn’t allow jurors to hear testimony about her abuse,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
“I was worried because, in those lengthy Thursday afternoon minutes, I had lost the ability to protect my child,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
”Rep. Dennis ‘Boog’ Highberger, a Lawrence Democrat, won’t be running for Kansas speaker of the House today. Republican leaders who prize obfuscation over open government made sure of that,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
”Now we know the true legacy of outgoing Attorney General Derek Schmidt: allowing likely sexual abusers of children to walk free,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
”Libraries hold a conflicted place our collective imagination. To many of us — to me personally — they’re magical. … But to a small and vocal group, school and town libraries threaten social order,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
”Could (an artificial intelligence program) fill in for me? At least now and then? I decided to find out,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
”Stegall outlined the situation and his claims in a six-page letter, packed with the kind of petty grievances one might expect to read in the diary of a middle schooler, and resigned his adjunct faculty position,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
“After all the drama, all the accusations and mudslinging, election evening in Kansas was — dare I say it? — a bit of an anticlimax,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
