Sound Off: Stoplight timing

If you know there are certain lights that take longer in the direction you want to go... Leave a little earlier or take an alternate route?

May 13, 2013 at 10:14 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Truancy policies can catch parents by surprise

Yet nobody cares if children are home schooled by parents that didn't even finish middle school. You have got to love Kansas!

April 29, 2013 at 7:21 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Sound Off: Reporting texters

Last week I was at a red light, it turns green and we are still sitting there... you can plainly see that the driver in front of me holding up traffic is texting. I normally don't honk, I give the person time to pay attention, however this day I had to use the ladies room something fierce, so I honked! He goes to flip me the bird, and can't even flip me the bird because his damn cell phone is glued to his hand, he couldn't even put his phone down to give an impatient person an actual middle finger salute! Cell phones should utilize some type of GPS signal that puts them into airplane mode (unable to send/receive calls/texts) while they are moving.

March 27, 2013 at 9:25 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Conservatives changing state government

I was under the impression that there already is a 5 year limit to getting welfare benefits... However I have never seen it being enforced.

http://www.dcf.ks.gov/services/ees/Pa...

Note: Families can only get TANF for 48 months in a lifetime. You may not use your cash benefits to purchase alcohol, tobacco or lottery tickets.

It is actually only 4 years...

February 27, 2013 at 8:02 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Do you think it would be a good idea for Kansas to legalize marijuana?

Seriously... Why does it matter if it is legalized or not? Those wanting to smoke it already do.

December 7, 2012 at 8:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Lawrence man suffers severe head injuries in motorcycle accident

R.I.P. Best wishes to your family. I didn't know you that well or for that long but you were an AMAZING father!

September 20, 2012 at 6:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

State board discusses home-schooling requirements

I feel home shooling can be a great thing for the kids. It would allow them more time with their families and people that truly care about them. It would also eliminate the bullying. However like with most good things, there is always a bad... My niece who got pregnant at 14 because her mom kept her at home to clean house and cook and "home schooled" her is now trying to home school her 3 boys and she doesn't even have a high school diploma. Maybe she could teach them up until 7th grade where she dropped out, but what then? As long as the parents have some regulations like high school diploma, monthly/yearly evaluations on campus so that the "child" is actually the one taking the test to prove they are learning and penalties applied so that the children aren't just built in sitters, homemakers would be great ideas. It should be a parents choice yes, but it should also be "for the childs best interest".

August 15, 2012 at 3:33 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Heat doesn't squelch Party in the Park

Dunk tank was 5 balls for 3 dollars. Duck pond was 10 tickets for 5 dollars. only thing FREE was the bounce house. EVERYTHING else you had to pay for.

July 5, 2012 at 5:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Do you own a bicycle?

I don't mind bikes,
I don't mind cars
I don't mind pedestrians,

CAN WE ALL PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER AND BIKE, DRIVE AND WALK WITH SOME COMMON SENSE???

July 1, 2012 at 2 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Gaslight Village community forced to find new homes

I was relocated to Brookwood 3.5 weeks ago.

The Mobile homes that can be moved are being done on Mondays & Wednesdays. Once your home has been inspected and deemed movable you have a couple days to pack all your stuff into a box truck provided to you by budget rentals, which you pay for upfront submit the reciepts to Lori/Amanda and get reimbursed for or provide your own place to store/tote your things once your home is moved. While your home is being set up with tornado straps brand new siding and getting electric, water and sewer hooked up you will be staying in a hotel paid for by the Horners. Only bad thing to the hotel is that if you bring your pets you pay the pet fee. Typically it takes 3 days before you can get back in your home and start unpacking and whatever else little things like phone & cable hooked up. Depending on your homes age you may be given a time frame to paint and fix things that need fixing on the outside of your home. Mine in particular needed painting.

The water was indeed off for around 4 hours day before yesterday. I was told that it was due to a home being moved in and damage done to water pipes... I was also told that there was water at the office if I brought jugs.

NO ONE is being forced to find other housing. The lady in this article should have stayed in her home until June or signed her home over to the office so that she isn't paying double rents. Had I not wanted to relocate I was told I could sign my home over and be paid in June if I found something I had to sign a lease for right now, and could not stay until June.

Mobile Homes are not any more trashy than the rest of this town. Only difference is that the city doesn't clean up after mobile home parks like they do over a bunch of drunk college kids on Mass street. The Mobile homes OWNER needs to make their home look good, same as with any home, saying Lori/Horners should make our places look good, is like saying the city should make every house in town look good, It is up to the person that owns whatever building to make it look good!

I choose to buy a mobile home for the fact that section 8 landlords are worse slum lords than what the college kids have to deal with! Also they are real easy to tear down make a couple hundred off the aluminum,copper and brass and move on if your neighbors are a-holes!

May 17, 2012 at 5:31 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )