Editorial on Kansas tax votes and leadership failings
Editorial condemns Kansas lawmakers and Gov. Brownback for passing tax increases after a late night session. It criticizes the lack of sunset on sales tax hikes and the failure to lower grocery taxes, arguing the crisis stemmed from a decades long rollback of income taxes and urging real leadership in Topeka.
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Magna Carta and Marbury v Madison Shape Limited Government
George Will traces how Magna Carta's legacy encouraged constitutional restraint and parliamentary sovereignty while highlighting Marshall’s Marbury v Madison ruling as a pivotal moment establishing judicial review. The piece contrasts historic limits on power with modern debates over majority rule and liberty, noting potential shifts with a changing Supreme Court.
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YMCA starts free swimming lessons for boys in summer season
The Lawrence YMCA opens its regular summer swimming campaign on Wednesday offering free lessons to boys ten years old and up who cannot swim. Secretary Howard Boltz notes last summer saw about seventy boys enrolled and expects at least seventy-five this year, with fifty progressing in three days previously. Compiled by Sarah St. John.
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Death penalty reconsideration to Justice Scalia by Leonard Pitts Jr
A Miami Herald columnist argues that the death penalty debate exposed by Justice Blackmun’s dissent and Scalia’s 1983 remarks has shifted. He notes DNA exonerations of Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown, pardoned by Gov. McCrory, challenging Scalia’s stance and calling for accountability and fairness in capital punishment.
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