”Those of us who work informally on the ground with the unhoused are painfully aware of failures,” independent advocates for unhoused people write in this open letter to the Lawrence community.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
”The only reason the public learned what the KBI really knew about … who killed Nick Rice on the streets of Lawrence in 1970 was because those cases’ raw investigative files eventually saw the light of day,” Max Kautsch writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
”Finally, information and a warning that turns this reflectional welcome post into a public service announcement … It is a very unsettling experience for both drivers to witness a car driving toward you on a one-way street,” Tom Harper writes in this column/PSA.
”With Lawrence city management now recommending to staff each fire truck in the city with one fewer firefighter every day, the safety of the average citizen and the safety of first responders are now at risk,” Eric Lynch of IAFF Local 1596 writes in this column.
Many people are familiar with the film “The Great Debaters,” starring Denzel Washington as Wiley College’s debate coach. But the film omits KU’s role in Wiley’s rise in the debating world in the 1930s, Shawn Alexander writes in this column.
”If Democrats don’t break the supermajority, or if Gov. Laura Kelly is replaced by an extremist governor in two years, we will need someone with experience and established legislative relationships to make things happen,” Amii Castle writes in this letter to the Times.
”I will not be voting for the Middle of the Road candidate. I am choosing to vote for the candidate who is heading in the direction of progress and justice,” Rebekah Gaston writes in this letter to the Times.
”It is vital to our community and it is critical that we choose the right leader for (Douglas County district attorney). We’ve seen the consequences in the last few years of making the wrong choice,” Ashley All writes in this letter to the Times.
”We are now engaged in a generational battle … for the right of everyone to succeed not in spite of who they are but because of it. And it’s a fight I want to take to the Statehouse in Topeka,” Brittany Hall writes in this column.
”The economic struggle faced by working Kansans today is in part because the majority of the Kansas Legislature has been focused on increasing the wealth of a few, maintaining the status quo for those with power and trying to divide us with social issues,” Suzanne Wilke writes in this column.
