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College board should follow its own policy
Dear Editor, I disagree with the conclusions about Barton Community Colleges policy governance that Paul Unruh expressed in his recent letter to the editor. You don't have to look far in Kansas to find community colleges that suffered long-lasting damage from trustees who brought their personal agendas to the board and inflicted them on the college. Policy governance was not used in those instances but is designed to prevent them. When a volunteer board uses ...
Let protesters foot the bill
Dear Editor, Just a thought: Now that the supreme court has approved the right to free speech at military funerals, it seems only just that cities should be able to recoup the additional expenses they incurred providing security and safety for those who promoted and conducted the protest. This ruling is sure to embolden those who promote and indulge in this type of behavior. Times are tough and this only serves to place an added ...
Local businesses deserve the work
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to my colleague on the city council, Mr. Randy Meyers and his editorial in last Friday's Tribune titled "City needs to spread the bids around." As I read the first few paragraphs I became somewhat skeptical as to the factuality of a lot of Mr. Meyers' statements as I could not recall Venture Corp. having a significantly large project at the airport in the past few years. Not ...
We're aware of your pain
Dear Editor, Having been a frequent visitor at CKMC this past week has made me even more aware of pain and feelings of abandonment many of you are experiencing at the closing of the in-patient part of the hospital. We Dominican Sisters can identify with those feelings. Many of us have been involved in the health care ministry of St. Rose Hospital-CKMC for over 100 years and we are grieving also. We are saddened that ...
Thanks for children's books
Dear Editor, On behalf of the Ellinwood Community Library, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the friends and family of Daulton Doll, who have supported the children's room and programs at the Ellinwood Library through their generous donations. Daulton Doll was the beloved son of Deana and Mick Doll who lost his life in a tragic car accident in 2000. The Doll family has chosen to commemorate and celebrate Daulton's life every ...
Stop suggesting unions are b-a-d
Dear Editor, After three days of national syndicated opinion columns published stating unions are bad and are the demise of America as we know it, I can no longer remain silent. I always thought the purpose of newspapers was to report the facts all the facts, not just the facts as the news editor would like them to be. But it is quite obvious by the anti-union slant in the opinion page and cartoons that ...
Government should buy local
Dear Editor, I was stunned to read in the Tribune Public Forums that a local company, Venture Corp., bid under the engineer's estimate for work to be done in the city and Randy Myers wanted to get bids from out of town. Give the work to a local contractor that has a great reputation, and is under the estimated cost. We - local contractors - pay taxes here, put our kids through schools here and ...
Hey, all union dues are voluntary
Dear Editor, This letter is in response to the Public Forum by Derrick Sontag in which he states that HB 2130 provides workers the ability to protect themselves from financially supporting political candidates they otherwise wouldn't support. Mr. Sontag, you're kidding, right? Public employees are given opportunities to have their paychecks automatically deducted with the payments going to various entities including charitable organizations (like the United Way), health care accounts, and, yes, for union dues ...
Get the out-of-town bids
Dear Editor, Let's take a look at why I suggested the Smokey Hills be contacted for asphalt work. When the city did the work at the airport Smokey Hills' bid was several hundred thousand less that Ventur,e so Smokey Hills got the job. Then they sub-contracted Venture and Venture did the work. We know that both made money and the city and the taxpayers saved money. This time the city contacted Venture individually but not ...
Trustees need to do their job
Dear Editor, Don Learned's recent condemnation of the college board of trustees and its policy governance deserves a response. Policy governance has not failed the community. The board has failed the community. The board, led by Robert Feldt, Paul Maneth and Mike Johnson over the last six years, has repeatedly ignored its obligations under policy governance. Twice, at the direction of then chairman Mr. Feldt, the board placed $500,000 increases in local property taxes under ...
Wolf should rethink stand on KNI
Dear Editor, I was appalled to learn that Kansas Rep. Bill Wolf, from my hometown of Great Bend, had voted to close Kansas Neurological Institute (KNI). Growing up in Great Bend, I was taught to take care of those in need and to always help the less fortunate. Rep. Wolf's stated background of family values was not reflected in his vote. Rather, one would assume that he would demand the continuance of the sophisticated, around-the- ...
We're here to help point the way
Dear Editor, The so-called Christian cultural morality movement is not accomplishing the mission many are desiring it to accomplish. If we, as Christians, were to eliminate abortion, pornography, homosexuality, gambling, drugs and alcohol, verbal, sexual and physical abuse, as well as all the debt problems of our government entities - we may not have produced a single Christian. If we could all come together on the same page and everyone get along in peace and ...
We're here to help point the way
Dear Editor, The so-called Christian cultural morality movement is not accomplishing the mission many are desiring it to accomplish. If we, as Christians, were to eliminate abortion, pornography, homosexuality, gambling, drugs and alcohol, verbal, sexual and physical abuse, as well as all the debt problems of our government entities - we may not have produced a single Christian. If we could all come together on the same page and everyone get along in peace and ...
Kansas doesn't need more tyranny
Dear Editor, It was Thomas Jefferson who said: To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. On that note, the Kansas Legislature is considering HB 2130, commonly referred to as paycheck protection. Money derived from public employee union membership dues, for example, is often spent on functions outside of bargaining and administrative activity. That's certainly the prerogative of a union ...
Sorry should be enough
Dear Editor, The recent lead editorial by Chuck Smith made a mountain out of a mole hill. In 2002, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott lost his leadership position over an insensitive comment about race relations. At the time, it seemed to me an apology would be appropriate, but treating his comment as a career ending incident was an over reaction. The recent editorial suggesting politicians who pointed out the insensitive comment of a fellow state ...
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