Opinion Line (March 11)
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It’s bothersome the burden that taxpayers have had to bear for all the six-figure salaries and benefits for so many educators and city and county employees.
Schools used to teach reading, writing and arithmetic. Today it’s primarily golf, tennis, soccer, track, football, basketball and, starting in elementary school, busing children to games. But the cry continues for more money for less real education.
School districts are wrestling with how to cut their budgets. Eliminate football, baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball. This would save lots of money and get us more national attention.
If it had been a 31-year-old Democratic Kansas state senator buying two cases of beer for a 21-year-old girl, Republicans would have him tarred and feathered.
Sen. Michael O’Donnell is the perfect example of Kansas Republicans: Issue a statement. If the reaction is negative, issue a different statement. The latest sounds just like his confusion on whether or not he paid rent.
Kansas would be better off if the state Supreme Court could figure out a way to get rid of the governor and most of the Legislature, rather than the other way around.
Since the Legislature is so intent on passing an impeachment bill targeting judges for judicial overreach, let’s encourage it to pass an impeachment bill regarding the legislators, the secretary of state and the governor for their monstrous overreach to try to control the independent judicial branch of our government.
More than 70 percent of Kansas Republicans voted against the GOP establishment choices. Does anyone think Sam Brownback, Pat Roberts or Mike Pompeo is listening? No.
There’s only one presidential candidate who’s worse than Donald Trump, and Kansans voted for him: Ted Cruz.
Davis Merritt is wrong (“GOP deserves Trump, but we will all pay,” March 8 Opinion). When you find yourself $16 trillion in the hole, it’s time to elect a businessman.
To Merritt’s excellent column on Tuesday, I can only respond with a rousing “Amen!”
Is there a law regulating decibel levels at indoor concerts? I recently attended a concert that should have been beautiful music, but due to the volume it turned out to be an experience in physically painful noise.
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This story was originally published March 10, 2016 at 6:04 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (March 11)."