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March 28th, 2024
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THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon   I’ve been reading to Lori. Lori is my husband, Peter’s, older sister. She has cancer and has been battling it for a while now. She uses oxygen to help out and catching this virus would be terrible for her, so Peter and I are extra careful, in large part...

L&T Publisher Earl Watt   Tax plans have divided Americans since they were temporarily imposed on our incomes to help support the Civil War effort and have never been repealed. Americans have always had a disdain for taxes, especially when the British imposed taxes on the without the...

GUEST COLUMN, Michael Austin, Kansas Policy Institute   Gov. Kelly announced last week that she won’t consider temporary federal unemployment relief as stalled congressional COVID negotiations. In response to President Trump issuing his own executive orders, the Governor’s announced her own...

GUEST COLUMN, Larry Elder   True Santa Monica, California, story: I saw a white man wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt. I went up to him and said, "You know, Guevara was racist, called Blacks dumb and lazy." He said, "Really?!" I said, "Google it." As I walked away, it looked like he was...

GUEST COLUMN, Star Parker   The Trump administration recently rescinded the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, adopted in the early months of the Obama administration. The rule was an add-on to the 1968 Fair Housing Act. The act was about preventing discrimination in the...

GUEST COLUMN, Larry Phillips, Kismet   In the not too distant past, citizens had to deal with travelling medicine shows or a medicine man making the rounds – in flamboyantly decorated horse-drawn wagons – selling what many came to call “snake oil:” Elixirs for about anything that ails...

GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris   The most recent Ipsos-ABC poll reveals an important fact about the upcoming election: The selection of Kamala Harris as Biden’s vice-presidential candidate is a big mistake that could cost him the election. The poll probed into Harris’ image with American voters...

GUEST COLUMN, Glenn Brunkow, Kansas Farm Bureau   I have a neighbor who is in his 80s and several years ago he planted a grove of walnut trees. Now that is faith and foresight. I am sure he is not planning on reaping the benefits of those walnut trees unless he has somehow found the...

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron   This week’s study regards the fourth of seven churches that received letters from Jesus, and the word that best described people in this congregation was tolerant. On the surface that sounds good: thesaurus entries for tolerant include forgiving, humane,...

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon   It seems I have acquired a reputation. I have been handing out dog treats for three months. Every day, I take the same trail, and every day, I meet many of the same customers. Dogs have an amazing memory when it comes to getting a treat — particularly from...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Reita Isaacs, Liberal

 

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MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

 

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