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So an advisory committee projects an increase of 56 percent in water and sewer rates over the next 10 years. Unless you are an executive at Hawker Beechcraft, you likely don’t see 5.6 percent increases in your wages each year. How can a person keep up with the constant increases in our utilities?
Is there any oversight to these ridiculous water-rate increases? Is the city trying to force senior citizens out of their homes? Adding fluoride to the water would further increase rates or taxes. How incompetent and ridiculous can this situation get?
The attendance at the recent Kansas Gas Service rate hearing in Wichita was a civic disgrace. Only about three dozen citizens attended, though the Kansas Corporation Commission’s decision will directly affect every gas customer in this part of the state. The hearing had adequate advance notice, and was well-structured and nonpolitical.
It took five years to build the Hoover Dam for $49 million. Is it going to take that long to build the Lincoln Street bridge and dam, at one-quarter the cost?
I can’t believe it – more violent crimes committed in the Wichita City Council’s downtown jewel, Old Town? Maybe we need an even more disproportionately large number of police to patrol there.
The anti-doping agency said Lance Armstrong might have kept five of his Tour de France titles had he cooperated. Did the agency have the evidence to strip him of those titles or not? Complete vindictive idiocy.
The Orpheum Theatre’s 90th anniversary concert – wow. Congratulations to the theater staff, the Wichita Symphony and Bernadette Peters. Anyone who missed it missed one of the most memorable events in Wichita.
We have “educated” the Afghan forces for more than five years. It’s time for graduation. Bring all of our troops home now.
For the cost of reinforcing the Gulf Coast levees, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could have relocated New Orleans and coastal towns inland. Hurricanes then would be nonevents. It is obvious that Mother Nature is relentless in reclaiming the wetlands.
We are in the fourth year of the Obama-Biden-Reid-Pelosi economic downturn. It is time to get rid of the people causing the problem. Dump Obama and Biden.
Republicans are like the foolish farmer who reduces the cows’ feed and expects more milk.
