Opinion

GUEST COLUMN, Julvonnia McDowell

When I bought my 14-year-old son a crisp, navy suit with a yellow bowtie for his upcoming spring formal, I never imagined that I’d have to bury him in it just days later.

My radiant, joyful boy went over to a family member’s house, where he and his cousin found an unsecured gun in a drawer, hidden beneath a t-shirt. They started playing with it, not realizing it was loaded. Minutes later, JaJuan was gone.

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.

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.

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.