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Written by Joshua Montgomery
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Monday, 14 July 2008 11:43 |
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Well, lets face it, George Bush and the Republican party have basically destroyed the U.S. Economy. There were times when responsible Republicans like Dwight Eisenhower, Bob Dole and Nancy Kassebaum put together business friendly legislation that benefitted everyone through strong economic and job growth, reasonable regulation and sound fiscal policy.
The ideology that drove the Republican party; fiscal discipline, strong national defense, moral fortitude and public service have now been abandoned by party leadership that is the lapdog of mega corporations and the super wealthy. Through the systematic destruction of the regulatory environment, implementation of regressive taxation and incompetent handling of national defense the leadership of the Republican party is busy destroying the America I love. |
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Written by Joshua Montgomery
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Sunday, 06 July 2008 14:43 |
At no time in my adult life have I been more embarrassed to live on the west side of Lawrence than last night at the East Side People’s Market where concerned members of the community got together to discuss the recent uptick in violent crime.
In the room I saw families and friends banding together to protect their neighborhood and build piece of mind. They are trading phone numbers, planning to put in security lighting, visiting their neighbors and building a neighborhood watch.
What I didn’t see was a single member of the city commission or the city staff.
I am ashamed of my city government.
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Written by Nora Murphy
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Sunday, 02 March 2008 01:28 |
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On Tuesday, Feb. 19, our Central Junior High School Site Council heard from its School Board representative, Mary Loveland, about the April 1st election to decide whether to give Lawrence Public Schools a one-percent increase in the “local option budget.” |
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Written by Joshua Brumm
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Friday, 29 February 2008 05:54 |
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The problem with going in to review a movie as hyped as “Cloverfield” is that it’s hard to go into the theater without expectations. But in order to give an objective review, that’s what a movie critic has to do. But upon reading your review of the movie, your critic went into the theater with a laundry list of what he wanted to see. When it wasn’t there, he declared the movie crap, and called it a day. |
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Written by Anonymous
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Sunday, 05 August 2007 04:29 |
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Editor:
Recently I attempted to cash a check for $129 given to me by
a Lawrence merchant for merchandise
that I returned. I took the check to US
Bank, where it was drawn. I was outraged
to discover that US Bank required me to provide a thumb and forefinger
fingerprint, and pay $5.00 to get money that was rightfully mine. When I objected, the bank manager told me
that, "Every bank does this."
She finally agreed to wave the fee this one time, but I still had to
submit to the humiliation of the fingerprinting.
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