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March 28th, 2024
L&T Opinions Page
MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron   Last week we reviewed the Transfiguration which took place at the top of a “high mountain”. One question that came to mind was why the story of that event appears in three Gospels but not the Book of John, who actually was on the mountaintop with Jesus, Elijah...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Sarah Foreman, Liberal   The trendy talk recently is about being part of “tribe.” Claiming a group as your own. Maybe collectively you share occupational woes. Or your tribe is comprised of moms with shared parenting distress during the ominous terrible twos. The above...

GUEST COLUMN, John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau   Why do you think your mom made a grocery list and stuck to it? From the time you enter the supermarket parking lot until you reach the checkout counter, every part of a supermarket is designed to make you spend more money than you...

A SECOND OPINION, The Kansas Policy Institute   There’s universal agreement that nothing impacts learning more than the interaction between students and teachers, yet local school boards allocated just 53.9 percent of total spending to Instruction during the 2018 school year. The Kansas...

L&T Publisher Earl Watt   At a high school football game in North Carolina Oct. 5, one student chose to wear his Trump jersey to match the theme, “America Night.” According to his father, the boy was humiliated when the school’s principal came up to him before halftime and told him he...

GUEST COLUMN,  John Richard Schrock, Education Frontlines   “All cameras must be put away. Anyone with a camera at the window will be arrested on arrival.” This was the curt announcement from our airplane pilot as we were approaching Kaoshiung, a city at the southern tip of...

GUEST COLUMN, Walter V. Wendler, President of West Texas A&M University   Contrary to predispositions, some rural kids do very well in universities. A recent Opportunity Insights study reports that rural students from many areas of the country are as upwardly mobile as their...

GUEST COLUMN, Todd Carlile, President of J&R Sand Co.   Our agricultural industry has changed a lot over the past 60 years. But, one thing hasn’t changed: our ag economy depends on well-built roads and bridges to transport Kansas crops to market. The problem is the state’s...

GUEST COLUMN, Larry Phillips, Kismet   One of the most important things to come out from Brett Kavanaugh being sworn in last weekend as a Supreme Court Associate Justice is that Democrats showed the American people radical Democrats no longer believe in the presumption of...

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron   Background for this week’s journey is Matthew chapter 17, six days after leaving Caesarea Philippi. With Peter, James and John, Jesus went to “a high mountain” where his appearance was changed as they’d never see him: “his face shone like the sun, and his...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Reita Isaacs, Liberal

 

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MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

 

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