”Almost 54 years (after the Stonewall riots), the idea of being arrested after a genital inspection doesn’t feel all that far-fetched once again,” Courtney Farr writes in this column.
“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.
”It’s important to me that my students and their families know that leaving this year was never in my intentions,” Judy Erpelding, director of Free State High School orchestra, writes in this column.
”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.
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”Parks and Rec is seriously downplaying the unlikelihood of the prairie (behind Prairie Park Nature Center) recovering after being so seriously damaged and depleted by this senseless act,” Ken Lassman writes in this column.
”This commission may consider a delay of a week or two to be no big deal, simply a way of doing their due diligence. But it very well could be the difference between life and death for one of our community members,” Kirsten Kuhn writes in this column.
”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.
