Kansan Editorial Urges Charity Law Reforms Over Felon Run Groups
An editorial argues Kansas law leaves felons permitted to run nonprofits while restricting work and voting. It spotlights Purple Heart Veteran Foundation director Andrew Gruber with a theft conviction and calls for stricter oversight, tougher best-practice requirements, and mandated safeguards to ensure donor funds reach beneficiaries.
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Monument to the least of these in memory of King
Leonard Pitts Jr of the Miami Herald argues the King tribute on the National Mall should honor his work for workers and the poor not just his civil rights legacy. He contrasts sanitized memory with King’s call for dignity and unions, urging compassion over wealth.
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Radical efficiency rethink at KU and KUMC for cost cuts
Mike Hoeflich of the Kansas University Law School argues for broader, deeper reforms beyond Huron Consulting. He proposes reducing enrollment and combining programs to eliminate duplication, shifting more students to vocational paths, and funding shifts to ease residence costs while preserving education quality. This column urges revisiting university size and structure across the Regents system.
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Kansas University School of Law
Journal-World
Are You a Murderer: Bake Your Own Bread Attacked
Lawrence Daily Journal-World notes from August 24 1911 recounts Paul Schulze of Chicago president of the National Association of Master Bakers declaring that the modern housewife who bakes her own bread makes soggy bread and is committing murder by serving it at meals the remark made at the association annual convention.
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Chicago
National Association of Master Bakers
Public Forum Compromise Report on Jenkins Pledge
Lawrence reader Martin Dickinson urges that Lynn Jenkins and 234 House Republicans stick to the Grover Norquist Tax Pledge, blocking any meaningful deficit reduction. He argues the pledge protects the super rich, contrasting Buffett's view on tax rates, and predicts no compromise while Jenkins is in office.
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Martin Dickinson
Lawrence
Local veterans tied to Wilson's Creek anniversary noted
Lawrence residents fought at Wilson's Creek as part of the Second Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry. The letter cites Horace Ladd Moore, great-grandfather of J Sam Moore Jr., who later served in Congress and led the Kansas State Historical Society. Readers are invited to submit 250 word letters to the Journal-World with name, address and phone number, by mail or email.
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Kansas State Historical Society
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el Paso
Texas
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