Editorial Roundup: Kansas
Kansas City Star. May 7, 2021.
Editorial: ‘He should be fired!’ Olathe North coach needs to go after using n-word
Pete Flood, head baseball coach at Olathe North High School, needs to be fired after aiming the n-word at the only Black player on the team.
In a Friday Facebook post, the player’s father, Tony Banks, said his son and another player on the team set up speakers and were playing rap music during batting practice before a game with Olathe South. Banks said Flood walked up to his son, “looked him in the eyes, and told him, ‘We don’t play that n music over here. We only play country and rock music.’ ”
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BNSF needs to do the right thing. It should replace the part of the Landon Trail it tore up to build a bridge.
By The Editorial Advisory Board
Come on, folks.
That’s the only reasonable response to the dispute between BNSF Railway and Shawnee County. Come on. The rail company is being unreasonable and putting bicyclists at risk.
But let’s back up a bit. As The Topeka Capital-Journal’s Tim Hrenchir reported last week, “The Kanza Rail Trails Conservancy for years has been developing the Landon Trail for public, non-motorized use along a former BNSF right-of-way.”
Longtime Topeka attorney George Pearson said Wednesday he had removed a brush pile and posts he put up to block entry to a section of the Landon Trail that passes through property he owns in southeast Shawnee County.
Pearson had said Tuesday that information he received from the Shawnee County Appraiser s Office convinced him he was within his rights to place the barriers at the trail s entrance to property he owns just northeast of S.E. 101st and Shadden Road.
But he told The Topeka Capital-Journal in an email Wednesday that the potential continued involvement of the federal government led him to arrange for the removal on Tuesday of the posts and downed trees, as well as a sign telling trespassers to keep out while warning lethal force used in self-defense here.