Moral Mondays: A time to redirect our compass

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March 21, 2014 - 12:00 AM

From the halls of the Kansas Capitol to city hall, we work more effectively when we work together. Photo by KANSAS REFLECTOR/SHERMAN SMITH

Kansas had its own Moral Monday, but it was on Tuesday.

In Georgia, protestors flooded the state capitol Monday to protest the Legislature’s refusal to expand Medicaid guidelines as provided in the Affordable Care Act. It was the ninth consecutive Monday activists have convened at the capitol in a movement they call Moral Monday, an offshoot of Truthful Tuesdays begun last year in South Carolina.

Topeka experienced a much milder version of protests Tuesday when about 200, including several Iolans, went to the state capitol in hopes of conveying to legislators the advantages…

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