Editorials

Editorial: Warning system is in place 05/07/12 - 7:14pm

Tornadoes and hail, or serious threats those calamities might occur, have been dominating the weather news this spring, so much so that many Topekans probably were unaware before looking at Monday’s newspaper that the day was the fifth anniversary of flooding along the Shunganunga Creek in south Topeka.

Residents who were forced to flee their homes and those who assisted them likely were aware of the date’s significance, but many of us, not so much. Most residents who lived in Topeka in 2007 remember the flood, of course, but would have been hard pressed to give the exact day.

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Editorial: Legacy to stay in Topeka 05/06/12 - 11:18pm

Questions about the future of Collective Brands Inc. in Topeka appeared to be answered last week when three firms that acquired the company - founded in this city in 1956 as Payless ShoeSource - indicated its headquarters would remain here.

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Editorial: Think before buying new office 05/05/12 - 10:18pm

Shawnee County officials think they could save the taxpayers some money by purchasing some property and moving some of the county's operations from leased space into a large building on the property.

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Editorial: WU's benefits span the years 05/04/12 - 10:05pm

Professors on Washburn University's staff in the 1960s were playing a bigger role in the university's future than they possibly could have imagined back then.

Editorials: Arts bill a good one 05/03/12 - 10:22pm

After a year of turmoil and anxiety about Gov. Sam Brownback’s decision last year to eliminate public funding for the arts in Kansas, a solution is at hand that appears to be acceptable to the governor, members of the arts community and an overwhelming majority of the state’s legislators.

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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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