”If we all contribute just a nickel more each time we spend $100, the good work cited above can continue and expand as we help our unhoused neighbors to a better future,” Nancy Jorn writes in this letter to the Times.
”I have learned that, incredibly, there are no criminal laws against spreading disinformation and outright lies in election materials,” Rick Frydman writes in this letter to the Times.
”We see the possibility of lower voter turnout with a district model in Lawrence as fewer elected officials would be accountable to voters,” the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods writes in this letter to the Times.
”Experience matters. … A poorly managed district attorney’s office undermines justice and wastes taxpayers’ money, and I want to end this,” Mike Warner writes in this column.
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”Our city hall communicates strength and has an aura of permanence … City hall must remain in the heart of our city: downtown,” Tom Harper writes in this column.
”Our community did not request a dramatically smaller swimming pool in the feedback they provided the city. Our community requested water spaces to swim in,” Holly Krebs writes in this letter to the Times.
”Based on our reading of the new (Land Development Code) … in some important ways, it fails to include necessary safeguards to help ensure the continued livability of our community’s traditional neighborhoods,” Phil and Peggi Englehart write in this letter to the Times.
”Our elected city and county officials have adopted a housing plan to end chronic homelessness in Douglas County. Let’s give them the tools they need to fund this plan,” Rachel and Dustin Stumblingbear write in this letter to the Times.
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Elliot Pees, creator of KANbucha, recently gave Tom Harper a tour of his business and allowed him to document the weekly process of making 240 gallons of kombucha.
”That the university was not directed by the Kansas Legislature to consolidate (the ETC, SGD and OMA) and did so anyway speaks to a disappointing lack of courage,” KU Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies alumni write in this open letter to KU administrators.
