”Failing to accommodate disabled people in public discourse, in meetings, and on boards can result in loss of their contributions; programs that are exclusionary; plans that fail to address community needs; and events that do not comply with civil rights laws,” Dot Nary writes in this column.
”Ruling in ways that enforce that law against some agencies and not others, particularly when the agency charged with enforcing the law refuses to apply it internally, shakes public confidence in government,” Max Kautsch writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
”It is reasonable for the public to expect not only that the office fairly enforces (open records and open meeting) laws, but also that it follows them,” Max Kautsch writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
”No way we men will ever find our bodies managed and directed the way society seems to want to do for women,” Mark McCormick writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
“Our new test-optional reality is more complicated. Just as we have morphed back into our pre-pandemic habits in other ways, we are backsliding into our old habits with standardized college admissions tests,” Eric Thomas writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
“(Derek Schmidt) has, in a single news conference, shown the people of Kansas that he’s willing to sacrifice their children on the altar of political expediency,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
“Kansans might think they’re done with state constitutional amendments. Unfortunately, the state constitutional amendments aren’t done with them,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
“According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the useful life of a single-use plastic bag is 12 minutes. These bags take about 500 years to degrade, and then only degrade into microplastics,” Lori Lawrence writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
“To me, disability pride means creating a culture of accessibility, accommodations, and acceptance so that the experience of disability is simply another facet of humanity versus relegation to second class status,” Dot Nary writes in this column.
“Like many Gen Z voters, my urge to become civically engaged began before the 2016 election, despite not being of age to vote. This was the beginning of the dismissal by older generations that we were too young to understand the complexities of American politics,” Rija Nazir writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
