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To the editor: Our city officials need to wake up and realize there’s a growing ground swell of Lawrence residents who are disgusted with the handling of the homeless. The homeless camp is a joke. There are several cars in the north levee outside the fenced camp with people sleeping ...
To the editor: We are again at a point in our history where we need a truly great president: someone like Washington, Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt — someone who can solve the myriad problems with which we are besieged: climate change, Russian and Chinese threats, autocratic attacks on ...
To the editor: A cancer on our democracy has been steadily growing this past eight years. If allowed to continue, it will destroy our country. The consequences are too great if the Republican Party selects Donald Trump as its presidential candidate. Trump has declared that if he’s reelected ...
To the editor: The article about the Jayhawk Club closing “Alvamar 9” points out problems homeowners are facing. After 40-plus years of working all over the country, my wife and I retired to Lawrence. We had many choices of where to build. Lawrence kept coming up as our first choice. We ...
To the editor: Chad Lawhorn’s July 16 article about the “Alvamar 9” identified a situation of serious concern for the many neighbors living on the golf course as well as an opportunity for the ownership of the course. The Alvamar 9 and the Championship Course together form one of ...
To the editor: George Will recently made some good points about the abundance of life today. I don’t want to go into a long argument, but I would like to point out that sometimes people need some “progressive” help if they want to tap into this abundance. My husband has cerebral ...