What can be learned from the primary election of Aug. 3? Negative campaigning works — usually.
Pratt and Pratt County has much to be proud of. Great schools. Excellent hospital. Forward-thinking leadership. Pratt is home to many beautiful parks and the Green Sports Complex. The city can also boast of a strong retail base and, of course, the Hot and Cold water towers.
The U.S. Senate has been described as the world’s most exclusive club. In the past, that description might have been apt. All of the members knew each other, and despite the differences of politics, friendships often flourished across the aisle.
American Legion Post 86 has suffered of late as a result of the public smoking ordinance enacted by the City Commission. The ordinance prohibits smoking in all public places with the exception of restaurants and bars where it’s allowed only after 10:30 p.m. Private clubs are included, and while the Legion’s mature membership still enjoys some good company and a drink or two in the evening, few want to wait until the late TV news is over just to have a smoke.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday took a step in the right direction by striking down a Chicago ordinance banning handgun ownership, but it wasn’t a big step and it will give attorneys, lower courts and advocates on both sides of the issue plenty of room to stomp around in the now muddied ground.
The Deepwater Horizon accident presents another unfathomable example of a supposedly responsible corporation shooting itself in the foot.
Common sense prevailed at the polls Tuesday.
Baby Boomers — that’s a lot of us — have so far been spared anything like the great challenges of the 20th century.
After putting so much faith in him April 6 — an amazing amount of faith if ballot totals are any measure — Pratt voters may be wondering how well newly elected Commissioner Gary Skaggs did in his first round of public business Monday night at City Hall.
The big question after last Tuesday’s big election is the next big election.
It’s not the best of times to raise taxes — even if it’s for the best of reasons.
Klick..Klick.klickklicklick..KLICK..WOW when the City Lites have been off so long it is hard to get them to Lite again.
So, hello. I’ve been gone for nearly three years, not really gone but retired from the city. That doesn’t mean I am not paying attention to the happenings it just means I have been fishing, watching tv, taking an afternoon nap and stuff like that.
More seniors take advantage of Part D
About this time every year, I get to thinking about my years as a 4-H member and all the things I learned in the process.
I think the most important thing I learned was that things don’t always go as planned and you will often need to adjust those plans on the fly.
For at least two decades, the Pratt County Humane Society limped along like a three-legged dog — surviving, at times barely, on a mixture of public funds and private donations in a sub-standard facility within earshot of the old city pound.
Unwittingly but no less surely, George W. Bush chose his successor.
Only those among us who endured the 1930s have ever experienced anything like the financial mess we are in today. Millions of lost jobs, major corporations teetering on the brink of bankruptcy that threatens more lost jobs, an initial government bailout that has yet to prove beneficial, and bi-partisan politics handcuffing our new President. We are officially in a world of hurt.
How much of the economic crisis is real and how much of it is perpetuated by the media-battered confidence of the American consumer?
Should municipal governments be in the business of residential real estate speculation? Generally, no.
Any single pundit or hydra-headed editorial board attempting to hold forth on the causes, consequences and solutions for the current financial crisis should tread carefully. Few are qualified to opine about a disaster that effectively blind-sided most of the experts.
