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Community Voices May 22, 2024 - 10:03 am

Clay Wirestone: Never forget – A senator was bludgeoned as tempers flared over slavery in Kansas 168 years ago (Column)

by Clay Wirestone, Kansas Reflector

”We remember Sumner’s name. But we should also remember that Sumner was right,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

Community Voices April 28, 2024 - 12:03 pm

Max McCoy: Report reveals ‘dysfunction’ at Haskell University. We owe the past – and future – much more. (Column)

by Max McCoy, Kansas Reflector

”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.

State News March 25, 2024 - 11:23 am

NRA insider Phil Journey shines a light on corruption at influential gun-rights organization

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

A longtime NRA board member says hints of financial impropriety surfaced years before the New York state AG filed a lawsuit against four executives of the gun-rights advocacy organization and revealed indiscretions so disturbing the conservative political giant could crumble.

Community Voices March 19, 2024 - 2:57 pm

Clay Wirestone: I loathe Lawrence’s new plastic bag ban with a fiery passion. It’s still a good idea, though. (Column)

by Clay Wirestone, Kansas Reflector

”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.

Community Voices March 11, 2024 - 12:55 pm

Max Kautsch: This Sunshine Week, Kansas officials should finally clear the Marion County Record’s journalists (Column)

by Max Kautsch

”Journalists should not feel like they are taking an unreasonable risk just to do their jobs, a feeling perpetuated every day that goes by without resolution on the raids” of the Marion County Record, Max Kautsch writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

Environment March 5, 2024 - 11:27 am

Environmental advocate condemns Kansas lawmakers’ attitude toward plastics, lack of energy policy

by Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector

In Lawrence, plastic grocery bags are scarce after a citywide ban on the product took effect Friday. But on the state level, Republican lawmakers have vowed to prevent similar bans from going into effect — an attitude one environmental advocate calls unfair.

Community Voices January 31, 2024 - 10:15 am

Clay Wirestone: Doom-laden bombast about future of journalism overlooks striking work in Kansas, elsewhere (Column)

by Clay Wirestone, Kansas Reflector

”I’m lucky to live in a state where myriad journalists set an example for the nation,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

Community Voices January 29, 2024 - 8:07 am

Kate Appel Eckert: Let’s celebrate the hot-blooded, radical, progressive history of Kansas (Column)

by Kate Appel Eckert, Kansas Reflector

”Kansas is consistently at the heart of every single revolution in America. And I have every intent on continuing this tradition,” Kate Appel Eckert writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

Community Voices October 26, 2023 - 11:29 am

Sarah Cole: Legislative leaders spread biased tropes about disabled Kansans in crusade against Medicaid (Column)

by Sarah Cole, Kansas Reflector

”Though disabled people are often prevented from doing the work they would prefer to be doing … most, if not all, of those barriers come not from within disabled people but rather from the outside world,” Sarah Cole writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

Community Voices October 5, 2023 - 3:13 pm

Max Kautsch: Rule lets Kansas courts refuse the release of ‘compiled information,’ obscuring your right to know (Column)

by Max Kautsch, Kansas Reflector

”Even though court records in adult criminal cases are presumptively open in this country, searching for such records … by the type of crime charged or over a range of dates is prohibited,” Max Kautsch writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

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