“On Tuesday, the public announcement came that as an employee at a state-funded university I would no longer be able to list my pronouns on any work-related communications. In other words, my identity is not appropriate for work,” — writes in this letter to the Times.
“Naming one’s pronouns does no harm to anyone, and it supports every KU student on campus,” Amii Castle, a KU professor, writes in this letter to the Times.
“We should be ashamed of turning our backs on our colleagues and erasing their identities,” Michael Amlung writes in this letter to the Times.
“We believe it is disingenuous of the city to claim a static property mill levy while assessments increase year after year. And to anticipate those increases as a basis for more debt is foolish and shortsighted,” John Richardson and Deborah Snyder write in this letter.
“The gray-haired (and no-haired) neighborhood activists of Lawrence want and need a younger generation of neighborhood leaders to come forward,” Phil and Peggi Englehart write in this letter to the Times.
“By supporting the expansion of existing businesses and by attracting new employers, we can create jobs, increase our tax base and ultimately ease the pressure on residential property taxpayers,” Gary Rexroad writes in this letter to the Times.
“Please encourage the development interests — public and private — to engage the neighborhood so that the results reflect sensible density that adds value for all concerned,” Phil and Peggi Englehart write in this open letter to the Planning Commission.
“Why should the rest of us have to live with increased housing costs because adults who chose not only to live in a college town, but next to the campus itself, don’t want an increase of students living in the neighborhood?” Chris Flowers writes in this letter to the Times.
”To our incredible students, we say be strong and together we will get through this. We must. … To the public, rest assured we will communicate soon ways you may enact your support,” the Haskell Faculty Senate writes in this letter.
”Let us not in 2025 allow Haskell to be lost — to our Lawrence community, as well as to young Native students across the country who count on an educational experience unattainable to them anywhere else in the world,” Carole Tomlinson writes in this letter.
