Opinion

Cemetery sense
Our View: Editorial
May 8, 2008
It looks like the city of Baldwin City will be in the cemetery business in about a year and it looks like that needs to happen.
Great Community
Our View Editorial
May 1, 2008
As the way with many relationships, we don’t say it enough. We love the Baldwin City Community.
A hardware fix
Our View Editorial
April 24, 2008
We were disappointed by what we saw and heard at the Baldwin City Council meeting Monday night. We are pleased that a special meeting of the Baldwin City Planning Commission Tuesday night, ordered by the council, fixed the problem and all is well.
Letters to the Editor
April 17, 2008
Baldwin City Signal letters to the editor
Jayhawks Rule
Our View Editorial
April 10, 2008
Like most every Kansan, we were jumping for joy Monday night with the University of Kansas’ thrilling overtime victory over Memphis in the NCAA basketball championship game.
Council surprises
Our View Editorial
March 27, 2008
There were a couple of surprises at Monday’s Baldwin City Council meeting, one involving the fire department and the other regarding new ball fields.
For education, it’s money well spent
Our View Editorial
February 21, 2008
We’re pleased with the work and the findings from the long-running efforts by the Baldwin School District’s facilities’ committee. The committee has been dedicated for the past year to finding what is needed most for the district. There have been many meetings to attend, schools to visit and other items for the committee members. We applaud their efforts.
Mostly good signs so far on elections
Our View Editorial
February 7, 2008
No matter which candidates won on Super Tuesday, the real winners were the voters. The huge turnout nationwide was great, but the response from Kansans to our Democratic caucuses was fabulous.
Bond issue looms; hard decisions, too
Our View Editorial
January 31, 2008
We welcomed the sense of urgency expressed at the latest Baldwin School District facilities’ committee meeting. The quicker a bond issue for needed improvements in the district is done, the better.
The district news
Our View Editorial
January 17, 2008
The Baldwin School District certainly had more than its share of news this week and it was good, bad and in between.
Holiday memories old and new
December 27, 2007
Enough already! I can’t get Andy Williams singing “Happy Holiday” out of mind. I think I shall go crazy. I like the song. It’s one of the Christmas classics to me. But, for whatever reason, it’s all I can seem to hear this year. That being said, I have had a happy holiday and I hope you have, too.
A thank you for our road crews
Our View Editorial
December 27, 2007
Although we like winter weather as much as anyone, there’s always an exception. That’s the snow and ice on the roadways. We’re tired of it - already. In the past three weeks, we’ve dealt with slick road conditions on three different occasions and, as of Wednesday afternoon, we were headed for a fourth. Again, we’re tired of it.
Be aware of your child’s online usage
Our View Editorial
December 20, 2007
With the Baldwin City Police Department’s second arrest in a month of an online sexual predator, it’s become even more obvious to us that parents must monitor their children’s computer usage online. Painfully obvious.
Here’s a real squirrelly outage tale
December 6, 2007