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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.

Community Voices February 18, 2025 - 3:01 pm

Letter to the Times: Bravo to Lawrence High for ‘Hadestown’

by Marc Havener

”I’ll admit I was skeptical of such a complex and dynamic show in the hands of a high school. My doubts turned to goosebumps, and I caught my theater-going partner wiping away tears,” Marc Havener writes in this letter to the Times.

Community Voices February 6, 2025 - 3:36 pm

Letter to the Times: Financial handcuffs of housing costs

by Brian King

”A sort of financial handcuff gets placed on the low-income, the disabled, the retired, on Social Security,” Brian King writes in this letter to the Times.

Community Voices February 5, 2025 - 1:50 pm

Letter to the Times: Inhumane minimum wage

by Steve Jacob

”We need our city commission to pass a $15 minimum wage for all of Lawrence,” Steve Jacob writes in this letter to the Times.

Community Voices January 31, 2025 - 10:06 am

Letter to the Times: Mixed messages about the jail

by Ralph Planthold

”To some of us who have been in this battle for nearly 10 years, (the sheriff comes across as) trying to protect the jail from overcrowding rather than protecting people from being incarcerated there capriciously and needlessly,” Ralph Planthold writes in this letter to the Times.

Community Voices January 29, 2025 - 1:18 pm

Letter to the Times: To those disillusioned and troubled by the church

by Deacon Godsey, Vintage Church

”If you are deeply troubled by the increased prominence of Christian Nationalism in American culture, by the degradation of our civic discourse, and by the neverending vitriol of the ‘culture wars,’ I want to encourage you: you are not alone,” Deacon Godsey writes in this letter to the Times.

Community Voices December 19, 2024 - 4:03 pm

Letter to the Times: Bail fund overregulation would keep ‘justice’ system in hands of the elite

by Douglas County Community Bail Fund Board of Directors

”The idea that community bail funds should be regulated with insurance requirements is an absurd overregulation of what amounts to voluntary mutual aid within a community,” Douglas County Community Bail Fund directors write in this letter to the Times.

Community Voices December 12, 2024 - 12:20 pm

Letter to the Times: No more false populism

by Isaac Johnson

”We must be diligent in calling out disingenuous actors who seek to further divisions under the guise of helping the working class,” Isaac Johnson, of Trans Lawrence Coalition, writes in this letter to the Times.

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