Opinion

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

I don’t drink beer, but if I did I wouldn’t drink Bud Light. It’s not because of Dylan Mulvaney. It’s because of the marketing department at the company who decided to insult a group of people who were the customer base of their product.

They can highlight anyone they want, including a man who believes he is a woman.

The problem was something that has become a problem around the nation when the concept of DEI was introduced.

The company decided to hire a woman named Alissa Heinerscheid to become the vice president of marketing, the first female VP for the company in 40 years.

GUEST COLUMN, Todd Stanton, Seward County Commissioner, Dist. 1

Proposed wind farm development in Seward County has raised many concerns among citizens with advocates both for and against the development. Some basic information provided by County personnel or taken from a March 17 county commission meeting was reported in the Leader & Times of March 23. Not mentioned in the impressive series of articles was that among the citizen comments at the March 17 meeting, no one spoke in favor of the development. No one.

GUEST COLUMN, Geraldine M. Kerr, Ph.D., licensed therapist

I recently hosted 17 people less than a month after getting my left hip replaced.

I have virtual physical therapy to thank for the miraculous recovery. And my story isn't unique. Millions of Americans have quickly bounced back from surgeries and injuries because of virtual PT. Studies show that it's just as effective as in-person PT, while being more convenient and less expensive for patients.

GUEST COLUMN, Greg Doering, Kansas Farm Bureau

A little more than five years ago, the world as we know it changed forever when COVID-19 swept across the globe bringing fear, uncertainty and drastic countermeasures with it. A lot has changed in the half decade after we collectively watched “Tiger King” while keeping a close eye on the supply of toilet paper.

While change isn’t always for the better, there are plenty of other places you can go if you’d like to rehash what society got wrong five years ago. Instead, I’d like to celebrate one of the many things that we gained through the pandemic that’s made life better today: Shop Kansas Farms.