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Journalist fired for defending Stars and Stripes from Hegseth mob is one of Kansas’ own | Opinion

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By Dion Lefler Verified
| Kansas City Star Verified
Reporter Lara Korte, right, is interviewed by CBS News after she was fired from the military newspaper Stars and Stripes. A previous CBS interview where Korte defended the paper’s editorial independence led to the firing by agents of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Korte got her start in journalism as an intern at the Wichita Eagle and Kansas City Star. I’m sure former Fox News talking head Pete Hegseth, now the secretary of defense, or war, or whatever, fancies himself an expert on journalism.
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Amid Wichita budget cuts, road diet for Douglas rolls unstoppably on | Opinion

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By Dion Lefler Verified
| Yahoo Verified
A city government should be about priorities — finding the most important things to do and then doing them. It's a lesson the city of Wichita has yet to learn, and probably never will. Less than week after a City Council meeting on cutting the budget, City Hall announced Thursday that work is about to start on putting part of Douglas Avenue on a "road diet." It's the first step in a $4.77 million project to narrow the entirety of Douglas where it passes through downtown from four car lanes to two.
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President Trump offers the best arguments against his own SAVE Act | Opinion

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By Dion Lefler Verified
| Kansas City Star Verified
Whether you call it the SAVE Act or the SAFE Act, President Donald Trump and Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach are both wrong about the need for citizens to collect paperwork and prove citizenship to vote. A recent social media post by Trump shows the government already knows who’s qualified to vote and who isn’t The best argument for opposing the SAVE Act has come from its biggest supporter, President Donald Trump.
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