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Cameras, recording should be allowed in Capitol committee hearings Give anyone an ounce of power, and it goes directly to their heads. Nowhere is that more apparent this week than in the state Capitol where committee chairs are attempting to keep the people, at least electronically, out of public meetings. A Lawrence pastor was asked [...]
Corbin H. Crable Columnist I got the news on Tuesday afternoon: The Johnson County Sun had closed its doors. My initial thought was perhaps a selfish one. “Drat,” I said to myself. “I have one of The Sun’s employees scheduled to speak to one of my reporting classes this semester, and I just sent the [...]
Corbin H. Crable chcrable@gardnernews.com I hate the fact that I even have to write this column. Kansas City, like much of the rest of the nation, is squirming in the grip of a stifling heat wave, and there are far too many of the sick, elderly and economically disadvantaged who are suffering in silence. When [...]
Corbin H. Crable chcrable@gardnernews.com Thirty years is too long to wait for a permanent memorial to those who died in the Hyatt Hotel skywalk collapse. But this weekend’s planned activities to mark the disaster certainly are a start in the long, arduous healing process. Kansas Citians – and engineering students as well – are familiar [...]
Corbin H. Crable chcrable@gardnernews.com I’ve always been a sucker for history. I love hearing other people’s stories about where they grew up, how they grew up, how the world around them changed as they came of age, and how, possessing the knowledge they’ve amassed over the years, they view their world now. It just so [...]
Corbin H. Crable chcrable@gardnernews.com And you thought I-35 during rush hour was bad. Chinese media – with the government’s unnecessary blessing, of course – released images of a massive traffic jam on a highway in Beijing earlier this week. Motorists’ cars were at a standstill as road construction crews held up the flow of traffic. [...]
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