LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To the editor: I am deeply disappointed in the Lansing school board. The Kansas City Star reported the board recently approved a parent’s bill of rights.
To the editor: I am deeply disappointed in the Lansing school board. The Kansas City Star reported the board recently approved a parent’s bill of rights.
Once Tina Sloan Green took over the lacrosse program at Temple University in the years after the passage of Title IX, the landmark gender-equity law, she never stopped thinking about the girls who weren’t playing.
Everywhere we turn there are signs of the upcoming Aug. 2 constitutional amendment and primary elections, and soon enough they’ll be replaced with reminders of the Nov.
Dear Amy: I started seeing "James" three months ago. I am 35 and he is 40. We both have successful careers, great communication, and an appetite for adventure. It has made for an amazing start, but I struggle with some baggage. James has a four-year-old daughter part time, whom I adore. James and his ex "Constance" were together for six years - never married. Constance has always been a stay-at-home mom, raising three older children that James considers stepchildren. Constance left James. He was shattered and confided in me that she must have been miserable to leave the financial security he provided. The thing is - she still has it!
To the editor: Since I first entered politics three years ago, I have never refused an invitation for any community event, including Leavenworth County League of Women Voters events, if it was in my power to attend, regardless of my personal misgivings about their organization’s politics. They claim to be non-partisan, but the vast majority of their membership is also deeply involved in the Leavenworth County Democratic Party.
In her first week on the job at a Philadelphia abortion clinic, Amanda Kifferly was taught how to search for bombs. About a year later, protesters blocked the entrances and exits of the The Women’s Centers, at one point pulling Kifferly into something resembling a mosh pit, where they surrounded her and shoved her around.
Our nation is facing a grave moral crisis. The deaths of the 19 elementary school children in Uvalde, Texas, has put the issue of gun violence squarely on the national agenda. Since we have just observed the second annual celebration of our newest national holiday, Juneteenth, it is appropriate to recall a famous statement from Dr. Martin Luther King: “The true measure of a society’s worth is how it treats its most vulnerable members.” No group in our society is more vulnerable than elementary school children.
To the editor: I have watched most of the Jan. 6 Committee.
To the editor: The Lansing school board recently voted to implement a Parents’ Bill of Rights. Listening to Rep.
New York’s governor has signed a law intended to prevent local officials from enacting rules that might suppress people’s voting rights because of their race. The John R.