Nation has right to ask ‘why?’

It was a cold, cloudy day at the Dole Institute on Nov. 10, the time when Marines from the Lawrence area came together to celebrate the 234th birthday of the Corps. The center was full of graying veterans, young uniformed ...

• Parks: Less can be more
  The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department is in the process of choosing top priorities for the city’s recreation system.
• Bring on the baby boomers
  If I were inclined to promote economic development, I’d try something new and guaranteed to produce quality, recession-proof jobs for far less than the $27,000 per job spent on average in Kansas to create new ones by the eco-devo gurus.
• Fear stifles health care debate
  Like many of my fellow Kansans, the other night I answered the call for a “tele-town hall” conducted by Sen. Sam Brownback.
• Local homeless shelter responds to new needs
  Canvas a few people about our local homeless population and you may hear comments like, “The people on our streets choose to be homeless.” Or, “Those scary meth addicts aren’t even from here.” These gross categorizations create a schism between “us” and “them” and obscure an important truth: The homelessness that we witness on the streets of Lawrence is a recent social problem.

• Athletic-academic balance
• U.S. needs national health care, not health insurance
• GM plan really a UAW bailout
• Advertising messages bombard children
• Economy still offers opportunity
• NBAF dangers being ignored
• What works? Tax cuts or government spending?
• Scrap the School of Fine Arts?
• Bailout bubble threatens U.S. economy