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March 29th, 2024
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L&T Publisher Earl Watt   Tuesday, by a vote of 3-2, the Liberal City Commission voted to accept the South Middle School facility from USD No. 480 to be used as a community recreation center. There are many who are afraid of how the facility will pay its operational expenses and...

GUEST COLUMN, Dr. Richard Holm, Prairie Doc®   Remember the Greek myth of Narcissus, a vain and handsome young man who was punished by a goddess for rejecting the innocent love of another. Narcissus was made to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool and he wasted the rest of his...

L&T Publisher Earl Watt   History, they say, is viewed through rose colored glasses, that it always looks better in our memory than it did in real life. It could be a sales tool, using nostalgia to remind us of the “good old days” in an effort to promote a product or convince us that...

GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris   The year 2020 was going to be the “year of the woman” in our politics. But then, so was 2016 and 2008. But the recent polling suggests that female candidates have not taken off but still lag behind the white men: former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie...

GUEST COLUMN, Carrie Classon   My husband, Peter, is at war with a hummingbird. I try to explain to him the essential unfairness of this. The hummingbird has a brain smaller than the end of Peter’s finger.  “This is a battle of wits!” Peter announced. I knew my money should be on...

GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris   Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, and Elizabeth Warren better watch out — they are headed for a fall. Current polling shows each one losing his or her home state to Biden and Sanders in the upcoming Democratic primary. Nothing derails a candidate like a loss at home....

GUEST COLUMN, Larry Phillips, Kismet   The release of Mark Levin’s book, “Unfreedom of the Press,” will mark an historical point in the death of “a free press” in the United States, which will be cited by history as happening during the early 21st Century. Our nation has had a remarkable...

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron   For several weeks I’ve been savoring a short letter written by the Apostle Paul to a church at Ephesus, which is in current-day Turkey. A summary of the fifth chapter heading is, “be imitators of God as beloved children”, and we’ve noted the desire of children...

GUEST COLUMN, Kim Baldwin, McPherson County farmer and rancher   We're beginning to notice small changes in our wheat crop. The short green fields are growing tall. Before long, the wheat will begin turning from the vivid greens to the golden hues signaling the nearness of summer...

L&T Publisher Earl Watt   Last week, Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg stated that Thomas Jefferson “knew slavery was wrong” and that there shouldn’t be monuments or memorials to Jefferson. Perhaps we forget that despite the shortcomings of Jefferson, George Washington and...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Reita Isaacs, Liberal

 

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MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

 

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