“Compelling individuals to erase their gender identity or refrain from acknowledging the identities of others under threat of state pressure violates core constitutional principles,” Marshall Maude writes in this letter to the Times.
“What happens when the people in power make a major decision that affects all of us, but don’t tell us about it? What happens when they don’t ask for our input, don’t open the floor for conversation, and then act as if it is too late to question it?” Micha Anne Cox writes in this letter to the Times.
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“Two city commission seats are up for election this year, and these new commissioners could help change our local government’s culture to be more collaborative and community-oriented,” Holly Krebs writes in this column.
“On Tuesday, the public announcement came that as an employee at a state-funded university I would no longer be able to list my pronouns on any work-related communications. In other words, my identity is not appropriate for work,” — writes in this letter to the Times.
“Naming one’s pronouns does no harm to anyone, and it supports every KU student on campus,” Amii Castle, a KU professor, writes in this letter to the Times.
“We should be ashamed of turning our backs on our colleagues and erasing their identities,” Michael Amlung writes in this letter to the Times.
“We deserve public debate before we’re pulled into a nationwide experiment in pre-crime technology. And we deserve better than a surveillance rollout that hides behind the language of community safety,” Kincaid Dennett writes in this column.
“A majority of commissions for the five most populous counties in the state,” including Douglas, “recently fell short of providing the information legally required before entering executive session,” Max Kautsch writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
“We believe it is disingenuous of the city to claim a static property mill levy while assessments increase year after year. And to anticipate those increases as a basis for more debt is foolish and shortsighted,” John Richardson and Deborah Snyder write in this letter.
“Our communities should not have to rest on one or two people. But what’s more, the fracturing has to end,” Tai Amri Spann-Ryan writes in this column.
