Journal-World Editorials
- Worthy women
- Strong, accomplished women reflect well on the men with whom they share their lives.
- August 28, 2008
- You can tell a lot about a man by looking at the women in his family — and especially his wife. It’s not every man who feels up to the task of keeping company with a strong, intelligent woman. It’s not always easy to live with someone who, gently but firmly, demands to have an equal role, someone who can and will counter your best arguments and call your bluff when need be.
Local Columns
August 27, 2008
- Homeless day center vision
- Tonight, dozens of Lawrence children will be forced to sleep in cars, cheap motels or outdoors. Without housing, they are vulnerable, friendships are difficult, school is challenging, health is endangered and self-esteem is fragile. Surrounded by all the beauty and comfort that this community offers, their lives are bleak.
August 25, 2008
- Mind, body & spirit: Hospital chaplain ensures holistic care for patients
- Clowning around during the 1996 Olympics resulted in the Rev. Angela Lowe’s photograph being displayed in a Georgia police station. When Lawrence Memorial hospital’s first full-time chaplain worked as a church consultant in Arkansas, she led clowning workshops for youth leaders.
August 24, 2008
- Personal tragedy can force re-evaluation of priorities
- People change professions for all kinds of reasons, and at all ages. Tonight, Boomergirl.com's Cathy Hamilton introduces us to a woman who made a drastic career change after personal tragedy forced her to re-evaluate her priorities.
- Couple set new rules behind the wheel
- “You want me to drive?” I ask. “Nah, I’m good,” he replies, for the third time. “Because I can. I’m wide awake. Had lots of coffee.” I throw my eyes open like Gary Busey to appear hyperalert. “I’m doing fine,” he says with an air of finality. He’s been driving for five hours and still won’t relinquish the wheel. Clearly, the man does not want his wife driving on summer vacation.
Syndicated Columns
August 28, 2008
- Women are strong voice for Democrats
- The leading women of the Democratic Party have done their part. Michelle Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, slated as the featured speakers on the first two nights of the national convention, delivered a pair of speeches that came as close to fulfilling the hopes of the nominees and the party leaders as anyone could have imagined.
- Obama speech must tackle tough issues
- When Barack Obama feeds rhetorical fishes and loaves to the multitudes in the football stadium tonight, he should deliver a message of sufficient particularity that it seems particularly suited to Americans. One more inspirational oration, one general enough to please Berliners or even his fellow “citizens of the world,” will confirm Pascal’s point that “continuous eloquence wearies.”
August 27, 2008
- Obama a step to fulfilling MLK dream
- He spoke of the promise before he spoke of the dream. In the first part of the momentous speech he gave at the Lincoln Memorial, the part schoolchildren don’t memorize and pundits never quote, Martin Luther King Jr. reminded a watching world that in writing the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, the founders were “signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.”
- Biden derails ‘change’ message
- In selecting Sen. Joseph Biden as his running mate, Barack Obama gains some needed foreign policy expertise, but loses some credibility. If Washington is as bad as these two say it is, was Biden a contributor or an enabler during his six Senate terms? If 36 years in the Senate doesn’t make you an “insider” and part of the problem, what does?
Letters to the Editor
August 27, 2008
Field concerns
To the editor: I’m writing this letter to raise awareness in Lawrence about the current plan to convert the Lawrence ...
Good jobs
To the editor: On Aug. 8, the Journal-World reported per capita income for Lawrence is $30,594. Lawrence now ranks 258th ...
August 26, 2008
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