Opinion

While AI has benefits, there are also dangers

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Reita Isaacs, Liberal

After a long,hard day of yard work, I should be completely wiped out, but that hasn’t happened, and now I’m just sitting here trying to decide what to address first.

Let’s start with the Indian Airline crash last week. You’re living in a dream world if you are entertaining any thoughts that was an accident. Another Boeing just dropped from the sky? Absolutely not. Wonder who was a passenger that had the formula for a new drug that saves lives and was going to have it developed and shared? Bad for Big Pharmaceuticals.

June celebrations from Flag Day to Juneteenth tell who we really are

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

The good news about Saturday’s “No Kings” protests across Kansas was that there were no reports of any significant property damage or physical altercations.

It’s a shame we have to look at events in such a way, but it is the reality of the world we live in today and the reason why law enforcement is such an important part of maintaining a safe society.

An intrusion

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

“You know,” my mother tells me, “It’s not normal to have a tiled bedroom.”

“It’s not normal to have a flooded bedroom three times in less than two years!” is what I replied.

And it’s true. This latest flood in our bedroom is the third time in 18 months that water has escaped whatever pipe, drain or faucet was supposed to be containing it, in what my husband, Peter, euphemistically refers to as “a water intrusion.” In none of these cases did the leak actually originate in our apartment. This is one of the unmentioned perils of living in a multi-unit building. We don’t just experience our issues; we get issues from everyone above us.

Washington, Kennedy both used troops inside the country

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

When a group of farmers and small town folk decided they would no longer bend a knee to the crown, they met the British along the road between Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775.

That was the beginning of the resistance against tyranny by a militia that would become the cornerstone of the American Revolution.

Intellectual property policies unlock better access to healthcare

GUEST COLUMN, Sue Peschin

Every day, medical discoveries are made in American labs. But turning those discoveries into accessible diagnostics and treatments requires more than scientific brilliance -- it demands a policy environment that supports risk-taking, rewards public-private collaboration, and protects invention.

That’s where the United States’ intellectual property (IP) laws come in, and they are the key to unlocking better access to healthcare.

More broadly, IP rights enable researchers, inventors, businesses, designers, artists, and others to legally protect their innovative and creative outputs and secure an economic return from them.