”Here are seven great things you can do to celebrate your early childhood care provider” today on Provider Appreciation Day, Will Averill writes in this column.
”It has been just more than one year since the old growth prairie that grows next to the Prairie Park Nature Center was sprayed … I decided: why not go to the source and interview the prairie itself?” Ken Lassman writes in this anthropomorphic column.
Tom Harper
The former Reuter Organ Co. building in downtown Lawrence has a rich history, yet it was in such poor condition that its new owner was considering demolition. Instead, he chose to preserve it for future generations, Tom Harper writes in this column.
”I urge the residents of Douglas County to join us in supporting gender-affirming care and standing in solidarity with transgender and gender diverse individuals in our community,” Patrick Schmitz, CEO of Bert Nash, writes in this column.
”The release of the BIE’s investigative report on Haskell is a start. But more is needed, including a criminal investigation into the abuses uncovered by the report,” Max McCoy writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
Tom Harper
Mohammed Iskandrani opened Aladdin Cafe 24 years ago after his mother told him she would move to Lawrence from Jordan if he would open a restaurant, Tom Harper writes in this column.
”Lawrence is fortunate that 3D Development and Q39 have decided to take on the (former Lawrence Journal-World) building as a redevelopment project,” Tom Harper writes in this column.
”High-quality care is vital as in the first few years of life, children build more than a million new neural networks every second, and the rate of growth and learning is massive. … We have the chance, as a community, to set our children up for a better life,” Will Averill writes in this column.
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”Every time we have an event, I wonder if this is the day that alters someone’s life for the better. … If nothing else, someone felt a little less alone in the world,” Courtney Farr writes in this column.
”So what if I don’t like the plastic bag ban? … We all have to do things that we don’t like for the greater good,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
