Opinion

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

We just celebrated Independence Day, and some of you know that I taught history most of the years I also pastored churches. For this article, I'll put on my history hat to talk about freedom.

Our nation's founders understood history and political philosophy. But primarily, when deciding what they did and didn’t want in a new government, they relied on their background with the British constitutional monarchy. They sought a framework for authority that would protect rights, not direct their lives. Many of the concepts hearkened back beyond Christianity, to the Roman Republic, and Athenian Democracy. (Be careful not to equate republic with Republicans, and democracy with Democrats.)

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

Our cat, Felix, traveled up north with us for the first time, to visit my parents and their cat, Katie.

I was worried Felix might not like the long drive. My parents’ home, while not enormous, has a basement and an upstairs, all connected by a spiral staircase, and I worried he would become distressed in this new place. There were a lot of new things he could mess with, and I worried he would knock over knickknacks or dig in the plants or hide. So I was anxious from the moment I piled Felix into his carrier.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

During the Fourth of July weekend Heather and I traveled to Lawrence to help our oldest daughter move to her new apartment in Shawnee Mission. She started her “big girl” job as she calls it after graduating from Kansas University and is now an engineer.

While going from corner to corner of the state, Kansas is lush green from end to end, a sign of increased rain and also great land management by the farmers and ranchers.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Amanda Devellen, President, Food Truck Saturdays Board

I am excited to announce that Ideatek has partnered with Food Truck Saturdays to offer free entry to Adventure Bay Waterpark on July 27.

Thanks to Ideatek's generosity, from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., both attendees of Food Truck Saturdays and the citizens of Liberal and surrounding areas can enjoy the waterpark at no cost.

This is a wonderful opportunity for our community to cool off and have fun.

Thank you, Ideatek, for making this possible.