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Let’s see: The city is broke. But we are building dog parks and paying people to tell us what is wrong with the city streets, which we paid others to tell us how to design in the first place.
The city wasted $125,000 in taxpayers’ money on a no-brainer study of downtown traffic? This is what is wrong with government at all levels. Unfortunately, the people who can’t balance their own checkbooks are in charge of ours.
The arena made $390,000 last year. At this rate it will pay for itself in 525 years. Whom do I thank for such a wise investment?
Support for construction of Century II and Intrust Bank Arena was failing until they were endorsed by the trades. A new hotel downtown seeks support from the trades with color brochures promising jobs and showing men and women wearing hard hats. I predict the hard hats will win.
Twenty years ago, I bet my kid brother a steak dinner that Kansas would never have a worse governor than Joan Finney. Thanks to Gov. Sam Brownback, my brother collected on our bet last weekend.
It is frustrating that Brownback wants to post teacher evaluations online as he cuts their salaries and KPERS security. Where is the parent component? As a school counselor, I have a dozen kids who have missed more than 20 days this school year. Where does state testing address this?
The Kansas Corporation Commission is aptly named, since it represents the interests of corporate utilities so very well.
Gee, Westar Energy and the KCC – more than $400 million in rate increases over the past three years, with a 10 percent shareholder increase included in this latest one? Are you kidding? With those kinds of increases, we should all expect Westar to serve us breakfast in bed every day.
I am forced to buy electric service from Westar, and now may be forced by the KCC to guarantee Westar shareholders a 10 percent profit. Utility companies should be user-owned not-for-profit companies.
The 911 dispatcher in Washington state waited 8 minutes after that social worker called before dispatching deputies. It took another 14 minutes for the deputies to arrive. Two innocents died. And people wonder why I want to carry a gun to defend myself and others.
Boeing broke a promise to stay in Wichita – bad, bad, bad. Kansas is considering breaking a promise to the Kansas Star Casino – good, good, good. More like wrong, wrong, wrong.
It’s been difficult to understand the hypocrisy of our state lawmakers allowing smoking at the new casinos when other businesses must become nonsmoking. I have wanted to gamble at our new casino but refuse to compromise my health because of the secondhand smoke. It’s about time to stop the silliness.
