On the day after the 2016 presidential election, a steady stream of students lined up outside my campus office to talk about the future of our profession. These were journalism students, rightly worried.
Someone call the ACME Corporation or maybe that Roadrunner. Kansas has a coyote problem and not the looney tunes kind.
Dear Annie: My neighbor and I have been friends for the last year and a half. She is 29 and has emotional, relationship and drinking problems. She moved to another area of town but still keeps in touch. I’m not trying that hard to maintain the friendship because I don’t miss the drunk drama. She is enjoyable to be around when she is sober and we can have good conversation.
To the editor: What to do with the apparent surplus generated from Kansas tax collection? Gov. Kelly wants to give all taxpayers a one-time rebate ($250 for single filers/$500 for joint filers).
In today’s political climate, it doesn’t seem there’s much we can all agree on, but one thing that nearly every Kansan can get behind is eliminating our state’s high food sales tax — once and for all.
The lineup of people testifying for and against a proposal to make completion of a computer science course a graduation requirement in Kansas says a lot about the need for universal school choice. Representatives of two universities, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools, a small business owner and the state community college association enthusiastically support the proposal.
As Vladimir Putin continues to amass troops on the border of Ukraine, there is a growing sense that the die has been cast, and that invasion is unavoidable. President Joe Biden, in a news conference last week, said, “My guess is he will move in. He has to do something.”
Dear Annie: I’m 70, and my friend “Martha” is 72. We live in the same senior apartment complex and have known each other for about nine months. I’ve helped her a lot, taking her to doctor’s appointments, walking her dog after eye surgery, etc. She went to Texas for Christmas with her daughter and son-in-law.
The news that Justice Stephen Breyer will retire from the Supreme Court this summer comes as little surprise. Every day he stays on the job is another day Republicans could regain control of the 50-50 Senate and threaten to block his replacement.
Americans don’t trust their public health experts, a serious problem in the best of times but downright dangerous amid a pandemic. Just 44% of Americans trust in the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, while only 40% trust Dr. Anthony Fauci (the nation’s point man on all things COVID) according to an NBC News survey conducted this month. Trust in politicians is even lower.