U.S. Attorney General Holder tells Brownback new gun law is unconstitutional

So, is not sedition against the US not a recallable offense against the "Governor"? If we're looking for a reasoin, this should be it.

May 2, 2013 at 10:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Lawrence man arrested for breaking into, sleeping in, vehicle

Why did they not report the name of the state, country, continent or world? Maybe because it has nothing to do with the story?

April 26, 2013 at 4:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Turnpike leader Johnston is leaving

I have two major problems with this.

First, I have done business with Mr. Johnston, and retain a quite positive memory of the transaction.

Second, Mr. Johnston has provided excellent financial and physical leadership to the KTA and the State of Kansas. To have been forced out of his position--and, have no doubt, he was forced out--because he created a model road system with positive cash flow and zero issues with physical facilities can only be because his creation of that cash flow is direly needed by the state to make up for its idiotic, fiscally irresponsible actions in cutting taxes with no thought of how to continue state services, including roads.

This administration has been bought and is being paid for by the very interests that have a huge financial stake in having the middle- and lower income classes pay for their continuing monetary gains. Mr. Johnston, having been a part of both the legislative and executive branches of the state's government, has shown that a fiscally responsible policy, backed by solid planning and long-term goals, is achievable and believable, unlike the current regime, which believes that magical thinking, unproven fiscal theory and quasi-religious "policy-making" is how a responsible state should operate.

If you who voted for the governor or any AFP/KPI/Koch-backed "Republican" do not see the light by now, then this state is indeed doomed to less than mediocrity, as are the vast majority of the citizens thereof. Mr. Johnston stands as a symbol of the current crop of selfish, destructive attitude that prevails in the Kansas Republican Party. And if those of us who voted against this "team" do not get out and campaign vigorously against its continuation, ther is no hope of bettering our state.

It's all up to us.

April 26, 2013 at 4:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Tax cuts will reduce state revenue more than Great Recession

Which is reason enough, toe, to be very, very worried about the facts in it.

April 26, 2013 at 10:38 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Tax cuts will reduce state revenue more than Great Recession

And just what, drake, do you see in this situation that justifies your "smaller more efficient government" claim?

Let's see: intrusion into everyone's personal and sexual lives? NO. Costing the taxpayers (projected,and probably more in the long run) over a million dollars to defend stupid, intrusive, non-scientific, religion-based laws? NO. Purposely raising the amount of dollars the state WILL be short of its operating expenses because of stupidly uninformed tax law? NO.

The list goes on and on, drake. The list includes little to justify the "smaller more efficient government" you so blithley laud.

The upshot is that you and your unthinking, knee-jerk neo-conservative friends who now run Kansas are goiing to have to come to terms, and soon, with what the current version of the Republican party has done, and will be doing, to Kansas in the future. You will come to see, if you can bypass the talking points and really look at facts as they are, that this state is headed directly for economic disaster, and it won't be pretty.

If you and the majority of the minority of voters who helped cause this don't get it together, it will take decades to repair the damage done in the last two years to our state.

Your opinion is yours to keep or to modify, and I'd like to say I don't care what you think. Unfortunately, it is urgent that you and yours awaken to the real world, that you open your eyes to what is rather than what you've been told will be; that you begin to think for yourselves, gaining an understanding of the reality of the Brownback/Koch agenda.

And I do care. I care very deeply, because this state has begun a long trip down a dark tunnel with no visible light at the end, whereever it may be.

April 26, 2013 at 10:36 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Popular breakfast restaurant Milton's returning to downtown in space currently occupied by Loopy's

What about his comments requires restaurant experience?

Not the knowledge that the restaurant is losing about half to two thirds of it's seating, since restaurant seating and sales per table are really important.

Not that the owner apparently projects a less than sunny attitude, since one has to believe that the new place would like to attract more than the tree-huggers and old hippies that frequented the old one.

Anything else?

April 24, 2013 at 3:29 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

No concealed carry in Lawrence schools

And you're going to pay for this......how?

April 24, 2013 at 2:07 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Opponents of drug testing for welfare benefits see it as hassling the poor; Brownback says it will help

Ignoring, again, the argument that the unworking poor still purchase goods and services and pay taxes on those things. The analogy stands on that issue alone.

Further argument, that the welfare recipient "produces nothing", is nil.

I kinda agree with your point, but still, it seems to me, that testing should be extended to anyone who lives, wholly or in part, on government dollars. Making a distinction between "producers" and "non-producers" allows us to become elitist at the highest level. It disavows that "non-producers" still may have children who must have a chance to become the vaunted "producers" and this law makes that much more difficult. It also creates the chance of children of the "non-producers" becoming wards sof the state, thereby costing even more in support, training and othere governmental costs.

It's just a bad idea, but one that, if adopted, should be extended to all who receive government funding.

April 22, 2013 at 9:48 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Lawrence nurse to become full-time missionary

Hear, hear. Excellent.

April 12, 2013 at 3:54 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Left- and right-leaning finance experts say Kansas tax changes worst in country over past two years

People, please read the "link text" included in the article. It is astounding that what many of us on this forum have been saying is mirrored in the article.

If you do not believe the assertions in the article, google the principals interviewed. No politics involved, this is just a simply factual article about a simply "simple-minded" attempt at tax reform disguising business-friendly, citizen-unfriendly political maneuvering.

Governor Brownback, please respond, and not with "the legislature did it, not I".

Mr. Trabert, don't even try to spin this one.

April 11, 2013 at 6:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )