”If we have a sexist and transphobic ordinance that the police won’t enforce because it’s sexist and transphobic, why are we keeping it as part of city code?” Chris Flowers writes in this letter to the Times.
“For future restoration and stewardship efforts to succeed for the City of Lawrence, at Prairie Park and beyond, they should be done in direct consultation and collaboration with Native people,” Brett Ramey writes in this letter.
”Too many times I’ve heard speeches professing progress and promising goals only to watch them unfold at a snail’s pace, then several years into the future showing only a mere fraction of those promises and goals come to fruition,” Kathleen Christian writes in this letter to the Times.
“Our state legislature has made it very clear how they feel about people like me, especially lately. To these representatives, I am not a valuable enough member of our community to self-determine my identity,” Ley Schneider writes in this letter to the Times.
”A public university should be able to support all students regardless of their income and financial situation. I hope KU can change what it values and do what’s right in the future,” Brian Woods writes in this letter to the Times.
”The prayers of the Kansas legislators to ’sway journalists into Christian reporting’ and the blaming of media for betraying trust and truth while creating turmoil among ’God’s people’ seem to present a sense of pride and arrogance that biblical scholars have deemed a source of all sin,” Tom Guba writes in this letter to the Times.
”I want to say shame on you for not having the courage to speak to your new neighbor face to face,” Jo Anne Zingo writes in this letter to the Times regarding recent events in the West Hills neighborhood.
”We know that our religion bears much of the responsibility for vilifying members of the LGBTQ+ communities. We also know that God loves all people, not in spite of who they are, but because of who they are,” Gretchen Meyer writes in this letter to the Times.
”Your team is a stellar example of cooperation, humility and grit on and off the court,” Ashley Bloom writes in this letter congratulating Coach Schneider and the KU women’s basketball team ahead of Saturday’s championship game.
”This community’s identity wasn’t formed by governing institutions; it was formed by the fight in the hearts of its people,” Topher Enneking writes in this letter to the Times.
