Road work on K-10 bypass begins Friday; downtown and 23rd Street bridges reopen

News flash to pork ribs. This highway money used for this project is NOT "pork." It is from funds returned to the states by formula which comes from user fees, i.e. gas taxes. That is it is a return of user fees we have paid. The determination of how to allocate this money is totally in the State of Kansas. Your rant is idiotic.

May 16, 2013 at 12:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

New judicial-selection plan fails

If you want a day-to-day politician being the judge on your case, just follow the advice of Eric Yost.

As a young republican legislator, he was as Machiavellian and cynical as they come. And in Wichita, where judges are elected, he knew how to manipulate the populace to get elected. Wichita's system of elected judges is the state poster child of how not to select judges. Don't take my word. Just ask any attorney you know in Wichita. They will tell you.

To have Yost defend Kinzer reinforces to me that all the Brownback/Kinzer/Prof. Stephen Ware proposals are not about giving the people control, but it is about them *taking* control. (We haven't heard from the professor lately. I wonder why that is?)

After threatening the judiciary's budget, Kinzer's indignation is laughable.

May 15, 2013 at 9:04 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Contentious issue of lighted tennis courts near LHS to be discussed again by city commissioners

Sounds like there are a lot of Cool neighbors in the area.

May 8, 2013 at 3:42 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Duo has plan to convert Teller's into gastropub with heavy emphasis on craft beers; Papa Murphy's opens with special event for Boys and Girls Club today

"when they work" ??

I don't think so.

May 1, 2013 at 7:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU outlines significant cuts if Legislature cuts higher education funding

"recently-opened Salina medical school"

????

The Salina-based Smokey Hills Medical Residency Training program has been in existence for 25-30 years. There is no "medical school" in Salina.

The rest of your arguments are equally ill-informed, nightmare, unless you want to take back to a European model of higher education where only the RICH and nobility have access.

April 19, 2013 at 7:45 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU outlines significant cuts if Legislature cuts higher education funding

IRTnog: You should learn before you spout off. The Salina program is a residency training one. It is NOT a medical school. It is very small. it was designed to train docs in a semi-rural setting during residency so that they might more likely want to practice in a rural setting in Kansas. If you measure the program by that objective, it has been wildly successful, in comparison to residency training programs in KC and even Wichita.

April 19, 2013 at 7:39 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Brownback to tour in support of his higher education budget

Dave Trabert once again shows his intent to not discuss this issue with any intellectual honesty. Either that or he is just ignorant of state budgeting and accounting by suggesting that "restricted fee" and "tuition" should be budgeted to offset state support. I will let you chose which one.

1) "restricted fees" is just that. Fees that are restricted (frequently by law or contract) from general use because of the source of money. Including: Dormitory Fees, Student Health Fees, laboratory fees, amounts received by researchers and the university for completton of federal grants, funds maintained to replay bond issues, including reserves for capital improvements and maintenance, insurance of bonded projects, etc etc etc. The funds are received for purposes that are not directly instructional purposes, and can not be spent otherwise. Does he want Dorm fees to pay for a professors Salary? Does he want to violate federal law by stealing from a federal grant to pay for the same. Does he want to violate the law by stealing from income pledged for a bonded project?
This is the same hokum that Trabert and his friends have used in discussing public education budgets and restricted fees in school district budgets. The suggestion that these funds be raided/used for general instructional purposes in many cases are clearly illegal by law or contract. In other cases, they would simply not be good stewardship or good business practices.

But,. boy oh boy, aren't they fun to type up and spread around in pursuit of blowing smoke up everybody's arses. It doesn't matter to him that it is illegal, because it just sounds good.

2) Tuition. Again, Trabert is being pretty cute in his information. Tuition balances at universities vary widely throughout the calendar year, since it is collected largely in two times in front of each semester. And tuition is collected several months in advance of the providing of educational services. At those points, tuition balances looks wildly high, but has been committed to be spent over the ongoing months. His suggestion is for the universities to steal from next year's students to pay for this year's faculty salaries. Some would call that fraud. I would use the same term to describe Mr. Trabert's discussion of higher education financing. He is either being intentionally misleading, or he is an idiot. I will let you choose.

April 16, 2013 at 11:28 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Lawhorn's Lawrence: Hopping around with downtown's Toad

Wendell has moved back to Ottawa. I saw him downtown just a few months ago.

April 15, 2013 at 9:03 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Vigil held to promote gun control

What would Sara say? :)

April 14, 2013 at 11:29 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Trailers catch fire in North Lawrence

Gotta love the Paul Davis Restoration trailer in the photo... Johnny on the spot!

April 7, 2013 at 9:35 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )