What currently airing TV show are you watching?

Ancient Aliens (History Channel)
Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Perry Mason and The Untouchables (MeTV)
The Rifleman (AMC on Saturday mornings when they do their cowboy thing)
and
Law and Order

September 29, 2011 at 10:28 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

$3,600 bicycle stolen from west Lawrence home

Was it insured?

September 8, 2011 at 12:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Thieves try to steal copper from Lawrence church's air conditioning unit

Old pennies are copper. I forget the year they realized they were using 1.6 cents worth of copper to make a penny, but is's the new pennies that are made with the cheaper alloy.

August 25, 2011 at 11:05 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Statehouse Live: KOSE files actions against Brownback's voluntary retirement plan

Let's say I had my 55 birthday in June and that my 30th anniversary (for State employment) was April 1. I'm one of the 4000 thinking about early retirement.
When age + yrs of service = 85, you can retire from State employment (you are not eligible for Medicare until you're 65 and are now responsible for paying your own insurance premium),. I've seen people retire and then return to work (for less money!) because the insurance premiums was so expensive. I'm not going to make that mistake and figured I'd hang on for another decade because I really need medical coverage..
Let's say that I'm working in the Lawrence SRS on July 1 and heard the announcement that they were closing the Lawrence office.
I'm who.

August 4, 2011 at 5 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Kansas Arts Commission asks National Endowment for the Arts for continued funding

There was an article in yesterday's New York Times. If I was more computer savvy, I'd know how to provide the link; but I'm not, so I can't.
I can point you in the right direction, if you're interested:

Arts Outposts Stung by Cuts in State Aid.
August 1, 2011
NYTimes.com

August 2, 2011 at 2:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Statehouse Live: Former state hospital chief 'shocked' by administration's plan to close Lawrence office

...that, and he was the KCMetro Region(al) Director for a little while.

July 28, 2011 at 2:55 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

SRS says workers now can transfer to Topeka; Douglas County commissioners petition governor over office closure

... until the next war. (How's this for cynical and jaded?) The preborns, the unborns (save the babies!) ... will have almost no education, reduced access to medical, ketchup soup in their school lunches, no art. They will be your cannon fodder in 18 years. Stupid, sick, malnourished cannon fodder.

July 27, 2011 at 10:02 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

What did you get at the Sidewalk Sale?

"Grab bags" from the Antiques Mall. A few lucky finds (pr of earrings, a bracelet), but mostly crap (tiny plastic cars and robots) and tootise rolls.
I can't tell you how much I enjoy the Sidewalk Sale.

July 22, 2011 at 11:57 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Votes count

like.

July 22, 2011 at 11:38 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Local agencies say people will lose services, costs shifted if SRS office is closed by Brownback

That "road kill" suggestion is not that far off.

July 20, 2011 at 10:12 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )