Opinion
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Opinion: Keep Transit Free – The Case Against Bus Fares
Last March, the Kansas City Area Transport Authority (KCATA) announced that it would be cutting 13 of its 29 bus lines. This was announced after the city planned to only allocate $71 million for the KCATA budget, a far cry less from the needed $117 million. On top of the loss of lines, 18% of…
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Opinion: Inflation Is The Real Killer, Not Spending Cuts
In an opinion piece titled “USAID: A Murder,” the author criticizes Elon Musk’s significant cuts to USAID funding, presenting them as a moral crisis. However, this emotional perspective misses an essential economic truth: concentrated benefits are obvious, but dispersed costs—like inflation—are a silent killer.
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Opinion: Embracing A National Pariah – The Need For DEI
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, also known as DEI, has become the new hot button topic championed by Democrats and decried by Republicans. Initiatives around the country in both the public and private sectors have been gutted, or removed all together. Recently, The Messenger reported that even here at Johnson County Community College the office of…
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Put the ‘T’ Back in LGBTQ
The updated NPS site for Stonewall now reads, “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal, but the events at the Stonewall Inn sparked fresh momentum for the LGB civil rights movement!”
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In Support of Raccoons
Lenexa resident Stephen Kaspar, has been on a mission to have Kansas join 20 other states in finally having the right to be able to have these lovable creatures as pets.
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Opinion: USAID — A Murder
If you’re a particularly empathic person, you could see the good of USAID, providing help to places where there is a need. Now maybe it’s the 13 years of Catholic School in me, but I see helping the less fortunate to be one of the greatest acts any person could make.
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Editor’s Note: Four Month Check-In & Open House
Editor in Chief Elizabeth Taylor. I was at work when I first got the call from Mike Humprhey and was not able to answer, but when I called him back before I went home for the evening, I was offered the job. At that moment, I never could have imagined where we would be now. …
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Do you listen to jazz? You should
“But I don’t like jazz and didn’t care for the movie Whiplash.” I hear you cry out, incorrectly. Whiplash is a modern masterpiece and jazz comes in all sorts of forms in which I am certain you will find one you love. Don’t believe me?
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Opinion: TikTok’s Premature Obituary
Editor’s Note: All Opinion articles reflect the opinion of the writer only, not The Messenger or Johnson County Community College. JCCC students interested in writing for The Messenger’s Opinion page can contact us at themessengerjccc@gmail.com. Today I watched some videos. Some were nonsense conspiracies. Others were videos of Sonic the Hedgehog singing in chinese. Riley…
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Election Analysis: The Possibility of Kansas Turning From a Red to Purple State
“The Democratic Party and everything that they stand for is so pro abortion, pro homosexual, pro gun control. And I’m a Kansan. We are conservative.” This was the dramatic opening of the 2008 film, “What’s a Matter with Kansas?” and brash as this statement may be, for decades now this is how much of the…