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.
