Opinion

GUEST COLUMN, Vance Ginn, Kansas Policy Institute

Kansas’ fiscal future is at risk. For years, state spending has outpaced economic growth, placing an increasing burden on taxpayers. Without serious reform, Kansas will continue down a path of higher taxes, slower job growth, and economic stagnation. The 2026 Responsible Kansas Budget (RKB) offers a solution—controlling spending, lowering taxes, and ensuring long-term prosperity.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

Donald Trump’s opening for his speech to the joint session of Congress may apply to anyone who does not support socialism.

“I look at the Democrats in front of me,” Trump said, “and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud, nothing I can do. I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations, or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded, and these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. They won’t do it no matter what.”

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

Last week's article listed seven characteristics of the teachings of Jesus the Messiah. Over the next couple of weeks, we'll review His use of teaching methods, including parables, metaphors, hyperbole, sayings, paradoxes, argument, repetition, contrast, and poetry.

Most people who've read the New Testament are familiar with parables, which were used most often when Jesus was speaking to the masses. His parables reflect on nature, or human experience, to communicate a spiritual lesson. Each parable can be understandable in itself, but its spiritual meaning is often veiled.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Reita Isaacs, Liberal

I usually receive the L&T the following morning because it is shared; otherwise this OPINION would have been voiced last night.

A few weeks ago I expressed a desire to be invited to a Democratic meeting. Lucky for everyone, it didn’t occur. How can there be such a discrepancy on the way “information” is interpreted when the facts are stated in black and white? Is it how we’re raised with certain core values?

How about the way a person reacts with strong emotions to situations that apply to someone else, but not you personally; giving you the moral outrage to encourage the first ones to actually commit the crimes that can/will have them thrown out of the America they so strongly desire to be welcomed to?