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Opinion Line (May 12)

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The city of Wichita does not need to blow thousands of dollars to plasticize Cowtown. Keep the wooden boardwalk.


With all the rain, maybe the city ought to worry more about maintaining the Big Ditch rather than the downtown area river developments.


Congress is on break, so where and when has Rep. Ron Estes, R-Wichita, scheduled his town meetings?


Kansans should be prepared to suffer a major loss in health care coverage if the Senate approves the House plan allowing states to waive some benefits.


It is great to see President Trump and other Republican leaders celebrate the vote on a House health care bill that has zero chance of passing in the Senate.


If you believed any of the information in hacked e-mails of Hillary Clinton or the DNC, then you now know how Russians can influence elections.


Oil drill sites are left cleaner than liberal protest sites.


If I were a terrorist wanting to do harm, I would enter the U.S. from Canada. There are thousands of miles of border with no fence, monitors or patrols.


The atheists I have known clearly demonstrated to me that atheists are condescending, arrogant and intolerant toward people of faith who worship God.


Given the results following a recent exorcism, it is not likely I will summon Pastor Terry Fox of Summit Paranormal Investigators to rid my garage of its demons.


I hope all Catholic dioceses will someday follow Archbishop Joseph Naumann’s heroic stance on the Girl Scouts.


A favorite political tool of the left is emotion, followed closely by deception.


I watch Stephen Colbert every evening just for his monologue. I don’t find it any more obscene than how Trump is treating our entire country.


Twice in the past six weeks I have mailed greeting cards with gift cards enclosed. Neither reached their destination or were returned. What’s going on?


People are getting larger in size while airplane, stadium, theater and bus seats are getting smaller.


I’ll have what Stephen Hawking is smoking.

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This story was originally published May 12, 2017 at 5:02 AM with the headline "Opinion Line (May 12)."

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