Editorials

Editorial: Maintain water infrastructure 05/02/12 - 9:36pm

Most Topekans probably would toss a notice from the city that their water and sewer bills were going to increase in the "bad news" file. That's understandable. Increases in the price of services we can't live without are frustrating.

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Editorial: TCF warrants additional staffing 05/01/12 - 8:35pm

It would be difficult to frame an argument against hiring additional corrections officers for the Topeka Correctional Facility, given the recent history of the state's only prison for women and new demands on the facility. Gov.

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Editorial: Pledge not to sign loyalty pledge 04/30/12 - 8:16pm

We can't help buy wonder how many Republican candidates for the Kansas Senate and Kansas House of Representatives have signed and returned the loyalty pledges mailed their way last month by the Kansas Republican Party leadership.

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Editorial: Limits on KanCare a smart move 04/29/12 - 11:27pm

Gov. Sam Brownback's proposal to overhaul the state's Medicaid program encountered stiff opposition as soon as details of the plan emerged.

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The Washington Post gets it: Republicans are the problem 04/29/12 - 5:05pm

The modern Republican Party has a problem that the Democratic Party does not: Its fringes have become its base.

In the first year of the Obama Administration, the phrase "hippie-punching" became broadly used to describe the policies that alienated the left -- in the health care debate alone, there was taking single payer off the table even as a negotiation tactic, then abandoning the Public Option. That the stimulus was so small and too much of it was tax cuts. That the Employee Free Choice Act was summarily ignored.

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Editorial: Pothole policy OK as it is 04/28/12 - 10:34pm

Finding a pothole in Topeka isn't difficult. Drive across the city without getting on a street that has been recently resurfaced and you'll probably find one.

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Editorial: Cyberbullying victim turn to courts 04/27/12 - 8:46pm

A Georgia teenager who was bullied via Facebook is exploring what apparently is the only avenue open to her for seeking redress. She has filed a libel suit against two of her middle school classmates.

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Editorial: Audit not adversarial process 04/26/12 - 8:01pm

Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services Secretary Phyllis Gilmore thinks accounting methods at many agencies that receive public aid for the physically disabled leave a lot to be desired.

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Is "the will of the people" now a Democratic idea? (part one) 04/26/12 - 8:04pm

Michigan's Republican Party has shown their disdain for representative democracy. Will Kansas follow suit? Has the national party already done so?

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Editorial: Council scrambling issues 04/25/12 - 10:38pm

Topeka City Councilman John Alcala has reason to be incensed that the Topeka Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board members may have violated the Kansas Open Meetings Act, and the city council acted properly Tuesday when it voted to seek a legal ruling on the issue.

The Capital-Journal, too, is a firm believer in KOMA and an advocate of enforcing the act’s provisions.

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