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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.

State Government September 25, 2023 - 11:57 am

Kansas counties eager for lawmakers to resurrect property tax relief fund

by Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector

The Legislature’s perennial failure to invest in lowering local property taxes left Miami County with a budget dilemma this year. The Local Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund has been dormant for 20 years.

Community Voices September 13, 2023 - 9:31 am

Tara Wallace: Fixing Kansas’ child welfare system requires the voices of families ‘closest to the pain’ (Column)

by Tara Wallace, Kansas Reflector

”When those living in poverty are dehumanized, no voice can be heard. There is no opportunity to create understanding and no possibility of change,” Tara Wallace writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

Health August 28, 2023 - 6:07 pm

Kansas abortion provider counters ‘devastation’ inflicted by restrictions on out-of-state patients

by Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector

Emily Wales, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, said her organization, like many of the state’s other abortion providers, has been flooded with an influx of out-of-state visitors seeking care denied to them in their own states.

Community Voices August 20, 2023 - 1:24 pm

Clay Wirestone: Kansas newspaper raid draws plenty of attention, but journalists defy threats across U.S. (Column)

by Clay Wirestone, Kansas Reflector

”When powerful people go after journalists and news outlets, they go after everyone. … Let’s look at outrages big and small from across the United States,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

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