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Viva Mexico
This Saturday Great Bend will hold its 19th annual Cinco de Mayo Festival. When the festival was new to our city, we spent a lot of time explaining what Cinco de Mayo was and even how to pronounce it (Sink-o dee MY-o). The name means "Fifth of May," and it's an actual holiday in Mexico - celebrating Mexico's victory over an invading French army in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1856. But Cinco ...
Change comes hard
Change is hard. Even change for good is hard. It's much easier to sit still and not take any risks.
Dealing with bullies
This week an award-winning national speaker visited Great Bend to talk about the problem of bullying.
One percent should pay their taxes, too
The U.S. Senate voted down the Warren Buffet rule, a minimum tax on millionaires in a party line vote this week.
Talk vs. evidence
It seems the nation is rushing to judgment on the guilt or innocence of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of young Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. Some are also rushing to judgment on whether or not Zimmerman is a racist, and/or whether police were wrong or perhaps corrupt when they did not immediately arrest him, in light of Florida's 2011 statute on "justifiable use of force." ...
It's polite to stay home during illness
Ha Choo! comes the sound from someone nearby. Even with a mild cold and flu season this year, just a reminder that it's polite to stay at home while sick.
Time to break the egg hunt
Anyone who's helped with similar events can sympathize with the choice made in Colorado Springs this year.
We have to work to pay less
Everybody would like to blame someone else for the sky-rocketing at the gas pumps. Why? Because we can't figure out a way to get to work without our cars. We have to drive to the grocery store - and enjoy more inflation. And, let's be honest, we just enjoy getting behind the wheel of the good ol' "Wagon Queen Family Truckster" to cruise. Sure, we'd love to blame the president, or Congress, and we'd love ...
Leave drunky monkey alone
Well, they got a pet monkey He likes to get drunky And sing boogie woogie and it sounds real funky Come on, your time boy, sing one monkey - Ray Stevens, "Gitarzan," 1969 Ray Stevens didn't mean anything bad with his classic comic suggestion of a drunk chimp. But it turns out that a drunk chimp isn't really all that funny. In fact an adult chimp on various drugs is absolutely terrifying - especially when ...
Hold still for your hug
"You are the same today as you'll be in five years except for two things, the books you read and the people you meet." - Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
Endorsement time is running out
It's coming up to that time of the election cycle again, the end of the endorsements. We have another local election, on Tuesday, April 3, and as is the Tribune policy in all elections, we shut off endorsement Public Forums before the election. The last day we'll run an endorsement is next Friday, and as is always the case, they run on a first-come, first-served basis so now is the time to submit them. Apparently, ...
Could be Junction City
Fans of the Mel Brooks comedy classic, "Young Frankenstein" still laugh at the wonderful scene when Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman are digging up their "corpse."
Leaders are like eagles -- we don't have either here
When November rolls around and this country continues on its current status quo stumble to bigger and bigger government that spends more, employs more, and does less for those footing the bill, it might be worthwhile to look back to this week's news.
They chose to break DUI law
Here's a guy who should have a statue erected. Kansas City, Kan. cop Kenneth Garrett made the Associated Press wire this past week for an incredible accomplishment. It's been estimated that over the past 20 years, Officer Garrett has make about 10,000 DUI arrests. Yeah. That's right. 10,000. He made more than 400 just last year alone. According to the AP report, it's almost like Garrett is a DUI magnet. "Three drunken drivers have collided ...
It's such a pretty lie
Americans are, unfortunately, used to being lied to by people running for office. Too often, we make excuses for them, or we just accept the lies when they are convenient, or when they are spouted by a popular celebrity. When someone we like lies to us, we wink at each other and smile, because "our candidate" is above the picky standards we set for those others we don't like. And when the candidate we like ...
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Copper recycling
Copper recycling can be a good thing coming out of old air conditioning or plumbing during replacement. Copper is a non-renewable resource, and apparently recycled copper is worth nearly as much as new copper.
Lack of supervision is cause for concern
Perhaps a Congressional inquiry about the Internal Revenue Service providing extra scrutiny targeting political groups should not be a surprise.
Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a founding principle of our country. Freedom of speech also comes with responsibility.
Cool/Not Cool
The Imagination Playground is coming to Great Bend and will make its public debut during June Jaunt. The portable playground is a set of oversized blocks, lightweight but sturdy enough to build with. They were designed by award-winning architect David Rockwell, who was inspired by watching his own children play.
Time to grow up
Challenges. All of us have them. And, it is easy to sit around and point fingers and blame others for our failures. It is easy to throw out exaggerated or incorrect information and hope people will listen and take up our cause because of the passion behind our words. It is easy to become caught up in distracting and destructive banter. It is easy to become a fool.
Trash talk
The senior class president of Heights High School in Wichita was suspended for the rest of the school year after posting a bit of trash talk about the school football team on Twitter.
Logical flood insurance rules finally passed
At long last, Congress, yes that gridlocked legislative body in D.C., has made changes to the National Flood Insurance Program. Astoundingly, the new rules actually make sense.
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