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Community Voices July 23, 2025 - 10:11 am

Letter to the Times: Why a KU professor includes her pronouns in her email signature

by Amii Castle

“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.

Community Voices July 22, 2025 - 3:55 pm

Letter to the Times: KU’s decisions on DEI, pronouns in emails are embarrassing, shameful

by Michael Amlung

“We should be ashamed of turning our backs on our colleagues and erasing their identities,” Michael Amlung writes in this letter to the Times.

Community Voices July 14, 2025 - 9:33 am

Letter to the Times: City is obfuscating data, increasing debt

by Lawrence Community

“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.

Community Voices May 27, 2025 - 1:05 pm

Letter to the Times: Wanted – Younger generation neighborhood leaders

by Phil and Peggi Englehart

“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.

Community Voices March 29, 2025 - 5:04 pm

Letter to the Times: Lawrence’s policies should support business growth

by Gary Rexroad

“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.

Community Voices March 24, 2025 - 10:11 am

Letter to the Times: Planning Commission should deny 3rd and Michigan upzoning request

by Phil and Peggi Englehart

“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.

Community Voices March 17, 2025 - 11:27 am

Letter to the Times: Occupancy limits are unfair to nontraditional families

by Chris Flowers

“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.

Community Voices February 21, 2025 - 5:15 pm

Letter to the Times: A message from the Haskell Faculty Senate

by Haskell Faculty Senate

”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.

Community Voices February 20, 2025 - 10:25 am

Letter to the Times: Haskell has been unfairly maligned

by Carole A. Tomlinson

”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.

Community Voices February 19, 2025 - 5:16 pm

Letter to the Times: Haskell firings are unacceptable

by Pat Willer & Pat Kehde

”This irresponsible action has devastating effects on those fired and on all university staff and students. … Haskell Indian Nations University is an integral part of our community and an important higher education resource,” Pat Willer and Pat Kehde write in this letter to the Times.

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