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GUEST COLUMN, Shannon Francis, 125th District Representative After a couple long days on the floor, Week 12 has come to a close. This week we passed the House position of many major pieces of legislation, including the budget and a major tax reduction bill. Next week, conference...
GUEST COLUMN, Shannon Francis, 125th District Representative We just finished our 11th week of the 2023 session and hit the second major deadline of the session. This week was the last day for bills to be considered by all but a couple select committees. We saw things heat up on the House...
GUEST COLUMN, Ganon Evans, Kansas Policy Institute Since 2021, Kansas’s Truth in Taxation laws have been a strong tool for taxpayers to voice their opinion and oppose tax increases in their community. Here’s three ways that citizens are empowered to keep property taxes affordable. 1....
GUEST COLUMN, Kurt Schlichter, townhall.com If you take an oath to protect and serve, and you end up outside of a schoolhouse with some gender freak psycho inside shooting kids, you face a stark choice. You can go in and kill the daughter of a bitch – there’s no gender insanity indulgence...
SAINTS PERSPECTIVE, SCC President Brad Bennett When I moved to Liberal with my family, I didn’t realize we were following the path of another fictional community member — Dorothy Gale, the girl who realized “there’s no place like home,” in the classic movie The Wizard of Oz. I...
GUEST COLUMN, John Richard Schrock, Education Frontlines The most recent report on “State of Computer Science Education: Understanding Our National Imperative” provides a clear warning: “Nearly two-thirds of high-skilled immigration is for computer scientists, and every state is an...
MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron I began writing weekly articles for the newspaper in 2007, while I served as pastor and college instructor for courses in history, geography, and ethics. We started out with topics of a devotional nature, sometimes sharing travel stories, or occasionally a...
THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon Anxiety likes numbers. I only recently realized that a lot of my anxiety fixates on meaningless numbers. I like to know how many there are of a particular thing and then attach meanings—usually sinister, sometimes hopeful, always unreasonable—to these...
L&T Publisher Earl Watt At a recent school board meeting, parents showed their concern about what children were being taught with a new language arts programs that was recently adopted for Liberal’s elementary schools. Any time there are concerns about what is being taught, emotions...
GUEST COLUMN, Greg Doering, Kansas Farm Bureau Perhaps the biggest pastime in spring is watching the weather. I could be just searching for a nice Saturday to visit a park or checking to see if I need to carry an umbrella to the office. For farmers and ranchers, however, spring weather is...
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