As city prepares to bid recreation center, officials still waiting to receive cost numbers from Fritzel on infrastructure

Graft and corruption masquerading as civic pride and prosperity.

May 13, 2013 at 8:23 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Kansas House, Senate far apart on tax issue as legislative wrap-up starts

A great many of those 'rubes, hicks, and illiterate' voters live in urban Johnson and Sedgwick counties, and are not just the handfuls of voters in the rural west of this state.

May 9, 2013 at 10 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Kansas House, Senate far apart on tax issue as legislative wrap-up starts

Thanks for the link. I'd read Shalet's book years ago and had forgotten how deeply involved Brownback is in the Family. Frightening and disgraceful. They're very organized. We should at least pay attention (if we are not yet willing to organize ourselves) and shine a strong light on their activities.

May 9, 2013 at 9:57 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

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

These people live a block and more away from the high school and the new tennis courts are literally next door (as close to their houses as would be another house on the same street). Would you like your neighbor to have lighted tennis courts 15' from your bedroom?

May 8, 2013 at 7:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Opinion: Obama initiatives are dead in the water

Maybe Krauthammer would make more sense if he kept both hands on the keyboard.

May 4, 2013 at 7:44 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

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

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May 3, 2013 at 2:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Opinion: NBA player makes history

"Consider that, of 1,508 sexual orientation hate crimes in 2011, the FBI reports that 57.8 percent were anti-gay male, while only 11.1 percent were anti-lesbian." So the remaining 31.1% were anti-heterosexual? Wow. Now that's a story to pursue.

May 3, 2013 at 11:21 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Rules tighten on TANF recipients

This is an issue of public policy and education, not religion and not wishful thinking. Fifty years ago just about everyone littered and it was, literally, a mess and a public health hazard. So instead of hiring even more street and sidewalk sweepers, we put trash bins on every street corner and began a public service campaign to encourage people not to litter. And now, most people dispose of their trash in trash receptacles. It took more than a generation, but it worked.

If we want to prevent unwanted pregnancies and, thereby, reduce the number of aborted unwanted pregnancies, we have to start focusing on what it takes to make sure every child in this country receives accurate sex education (not simply abstinence) before puberty, that every fertile child and adult in this country can obtain and afford the most effective birth control devices and medications known to prevent unwanted pregnancies, and we must continue to make safe and legal abortion available to every girl and woman in this country who wants to end her unwanted pregnancy.

It will take more than a generation to correct the ignorance and the righteous wish to punish that has controlled this public issue, but it can be done, and it can be done with a coalition of people from the left, right, and center of our country. Do you want to change what we have now? Or do you want to pretend that it can only be done by forcing pregnant girls and women to carry their unwanted pregnancies to term and then punishing them for keeping that unwanted child - and cannot afford to support on their own - by removing all public monies from their support? So it is either help them NOT to have a pregnancy they do not want and cannot afford, or insist upon forced birth and continue to provide grossly inadequate public support for the resulting child. Both are evidence of public policy. One results in an educated populace that can exercise reproductive control; the other results in ignorance and brutal poverty for which society ends up paying far much more.

May 2, 2013 at 12:12 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Rules tighten on TANF recipients

Exactly.

May 2, 2013 at 10:47 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Rules tighten on TANF recipients

Birth control devices can fail. If you object to paying for another's mistake or for the failure of whatever birth control measure, medication, or device they used, I suggest you do everything you can to prevent or abort such mistakes. Who, besides you, is blaming anyone else for an unwanted pregnancy? Or is your primary interest in punishing?

May 2, 2013 at 10:40 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )