”This will be the third year for the Bert Nash Center’s Community Resource Fair. And this year’s will be the most interactive one yet,” Jeff Burkhead writes in this Org Corner piece from Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center.
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”Housing is a fundamental need, and Mike Randolph has been helping address that need in Lawrence for many years,” Tom Harper writes in this column.
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”Lawrence is a city built on respect, inclusivity, and a shared commitment to progress. We are better than the behaviors we’ve witnessed in recent months,” City Commissioner Amber Sellers writes in this column.
”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.
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”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.
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”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.
