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It doesn’t pay to be reclusive when you’re trying to build up a small university on the wind-blown Kansas prairie.
News, they told us in college journalism class, is whatever happens within a two-mile radius of your home. Or, better yet, within two miles of your editor’s home. I’m not sure that holds true anymore, now that news is whatever is on one’s Facebook page, or cable channel, or Twitter updates.
Jackson County has been financing the war on drugs with a quarter-cent sales tax since 1989, and voters are being asked to re-up for at least seven more years. I look at the drug war pretty much the same way as the conflict in Iraq.