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Written by Lauren Krivoshia
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 09:02 |
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America, we have a crisis. It’s sweeping the nation, hurting all of us and it’s nothing new. It’s been happening for decades, so maybe it’s better described as a silent epidemic. That was the title of the May 2007 summit where Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said, “Today, a quality education is more important than ever and solving our dropout crisis is not just a moral imperative, it's an economic necessity. The United States has the most severe income gap between high school graduates and dropouts in the world.” |
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Written by Mayor Mike Dever
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Monday, 17 November 2008 16:00 |
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The questions on the November 4th ballot regarding the fate of the public transportation system in Lawrence were answered in an overwhelming fashion. At a time when our economy is faltering, and the balances in our local, state and federal government coffers are in serious decline, 70% of Lawrence voters agreed to fund our eight-year-old transit system for ten more years. They also decided to help allocate the resources needed to make the system better. I am very proud of our community and grateful for its continued commitment to transit in Lawrence. |
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Written by Mitchell Near
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Friday, 14 November 2008 08:29 |
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As I write this the gentleman from Illinois, via Kansas, Barack Obama, has made history by becoming the first African-American to be elected president of the United States of America. And the word that has been ricocheting through my mind is the word “manipulation.” I’ve been meditating on it for weeks and how everyone, no matter how good or bad, will, at some point in their life use intellectual and emotional manipulation to obtain something they desire from someone else. |
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Written by Chris Merrill
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:58 |
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Voters had the choice to keep taxes lower in Lawrence or create a scenario making Lawrence the highest-taxed city, per capita, in Kansas. Raising taxes to support the under-performing “T”ransit system in Lawrence was fiscally irresponsible and an action of feel-good emotion with a 10-year consequence. The adage goes that if one gives a man enough rope, he will hang himself. With a resounding “Bring the Noose,” the voters chose to hang themselves with higher taxes. |
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Written by Tim Miller
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 11:08 |
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In Lawrence, as in most towns, everyone exclaims over the ineptitude of the principal local paper. In our blue town the complaints usually focus on the daily’s editorials, and especially on the Saturday column, written by the paper’s aging godfather. The daily unsigned editorials used to be routinely offensive, but a changing of the guard among the anonymous scribes has made them much less disgusting than they used to be, even though they continue to champion the Chambercrat agenda. |
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