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

Schmidt really ought to be requesting those funds to have Brownback's head examined...and the heads of most of the Kansas legislature...

May 2, 2013 at 10:43 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Truancy policies can catch parents by surprise

When my daughter was in school, I was told that if I called in, or sent a note, that this meant it was an excused absence...the only unexcused absences were if the child didn't show up for class and there was no explanation at all...

Why has this changed?

I still think threatening to have someone's child taken away is an appalling practice, and it shouldn't be allowed...

Isn't it kind of funny how school has gone from something that most kids didn't have a chance to go to, but dreamed of being able to, and now they're forced to go there?

May 2, 2013 at 10:35 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Truancy policies can catch parents by surprise

And you know all this insider information exactly how?

May 2, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Truancy policies can catch parents by surprise

I was appalled to find out that five absences could be deemed an offense that SRS could use to try and take someone's child away from them...

Really? Five tardies in seven months? Even if they had actually been full absences, that seems pretty extreme to me...out of how many school days a year? 180 or something? I get more days off than that a year at my job...and I don't necessarily have to have an excuse at all...I'm entitled to so many days, regardless of the reason...I also get four weeks of vacation time a year, not just personal days...

It seems to me that schools could grant a little more leeway here before they start threatening to have SRS yank your child away...is there a quota for foster care that I'm unaware of?

I can't think of an experience more terrifying and confusing for a small child...in fact, it could be enough to make her start going to school simply out of fear, which will guarantee that she probably won't learn as much while she's there...how many times, as a child, were any of you "responsibility" people ever threatened with losing contact with your mother? How would it have made you feel?

It just seems cruel and extreme to me...and I'm very thankful that my child is no longer of school age anymore...

May 1, 2013 at 9:16 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Editorial: Gun stampede

I don't for an instant think that anyplace with a "no guns" sign is going to automatically become a target for crime...with the apparent mindset of most criminals, I think they would consider a place that has guns as a bigger target...they'd be wanting to prove that they could rob a place even with guns there...

Isn't that what happens when banks are robbed? Surely the criminals know that there are going to be armed guards there, and in many other places where shootings occur, like courthouses...and yet those kinds of crimes still happen...how do you explain that?

March 9, 2013 at 11:06 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Brownback wants school finance case to go to mediation

Do we have any people left in Kansas government who have two brain cells to rub together? Sure doesn't seem like it...

Confidentiality...oh, yeah...just another way of saying they can do whatever the hell they want, we the taxpayers have no say in it, and they don't even have to tell us what they did...

February 8, 2013 at 11:12 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Union attack

Then I would assume you dislike the people in the legislature...isn't that exactly what all of them do? Should we ban the legislature then?

January 30, 2013 at noon ( permalink | suggest removal )

Another bill opposed by unions introduced as House gears up for debate on paycheck measure

"Working Kansas Alliance said the measure would prohibit public workers, police and firefighters from bargaining to improve their wages and working conditions."

What kind of idiot would introduce legislation like this? Do they want a worker uprising on their hands?

So if HB 2123 is passed, does this mean that the legislature can no longer vote in their own pay raises? They can no longer decide what days they will or will not work? They are all public employees, after all...

And what is the American Legislative Exchange Council anyway, except another type of union?

January 30, 2013 at 11:44 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Study: Kansas' smoking ban hasn't affected business in restaurants, bars

Yeah, those generous outdoor areas work really well when it's 20 degrees outside...

January 26, 2013 at 3:45 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Study: Kansas' smoking ban hasn't affected business in restaurants, bars

You go to bars to better your health? Really?

January 26, 2013 at 3:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )