No busker ban

To the editor: Controversy swirls about banning panhandling in downtown Lawrence. Let me make a distinction between panhandling and busking. Panhandling is poor people trying to get by; busking is artists sharing their skills with the community, hoping for tips. ...

• Safe pathways
  To the editor: Perhaps the city of Lawrence should be green enough to provide two “pedestrian/cyclist safe pathways."
• Fatal mindset
  To the editor: Major Hasan’s treachery, treason and killing of U.S. soldiers while screaming “Allahu Akbar!” — God is Great! — brings Ms. Haehl’s response (“Revisit reasons,” Nov. 17) that other religions have had their killers, too. She concludes “dangerous people, not Muslims, are the problem.”
• Offensive fee
  To the editor: My wife and I are senior citizens who moved to Lawrence five months ago and we really enjoy the community.
• Schools can’t wait
  To the editor: The editorial titled “Patience,” published on Nov. 9 acknowledged that Kansas schools will be hurt by budget reductions, but “now is not the time to pursue it.”

• Tax target
• The other
• Don’t ban it
• Revisit reasons
• Well-run clinic
• Poverty, panhandling
• Honored memory
• Better than that
• Final choices