Opinion

GUEST COLUMN, Kim Baldwin, Kansas Farm Bureau

For many, these next few days and weeks consist of a lot of events that will generally take place outside. For my community, that involves city-wide garage sales, student field days and a huge multi-day countywide celebration that includes outdoor performances, student competitions at the park, a carnival and a fantastically impressive parade that attracts residents of our county and beyond to attend.

The talk has already begun about how it’s looking like this year’s county-wide events are gearing up to have “perfect weather". 

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

I learned a tough lesson form my grandma growing up that seems to be lost these days.

Being the youngest in the group, I would be the target of the occasional off-colored remark.

When my feelings were hurt, I ran inside to the kitchen to find my grandma working on supper. I informed her of the major transgression committed against me, fully expecting her to rattle some cages and restore my dignity.

GUEST COLUMN, Larry Elder, Townhall.com

As to the signs held by and the slogans chanted by the "pro-Palestinian" protesters, switch out the words "Jew" or "Jewish" and insert the word "black." The nationwide George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests of the summer of 2020 would then look like a knitting circle.

President Joe Biden condemned "the antisemitic protests," but added, "I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians."

GUEST COLUMN, Ganon Evans, Kansas Policy Institute

On Monday, the Kansas Senate fell short of overturning Governor Kelly’s veto on HB 2306, a tax reform bill that initially passed unanimously in the House. Gov. Kelly has cited a $30 million difference between her plan and HB2306 as a reason for her veto, once again climbing the soapbox that any tax reform (that isn’t hers) is “irresponsible.” Yet, Gov. Kelly and a bipartisan group of legislators are more than willing to throw billions of dollars of taxpayer cash toward megacorporations and billionaire sports owners. There is apparently a strong consensus to the select few instead of providing tax relief to the majority of Kansans.