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Our girls are not 'fair game'
America: Are your daughters and granddaughters worth protecting, or not?
Just buckle up, for crying out loud
For crying out loud - just put on the stupid belt.
Time to do more with less
It would be appealing to believe that the move that is already underway in Cherokee - located south of Pittsburg, in southeast Kansas - and that is rumored elsewhere in the state, is NOT being done to try to get local taxpayers angry at state officials.
See the view from home -- it's cheaper
The tourism industry promoters are working overtime, first trying to convince Americans that it's safe - not to go back into the water - to get back out and travel.
At least the CEOs will be OK
Just in case you were worried, you can rest easier now. The news came through recently that America's top paid business executives are getting better pay, again.
It's gonna be a long wait
Kenny Nguyen is really hoping that a bunch of people will come back and pay him for his under-priced gas.
What goes up must come down -- safe or not
You see it on TV all the time, especially, it seems, in the Middle East.
Good riddance, Kal-Schmuck
The Man of Steel can go slide up a weed.
Bureaucrats lie because it's convenient
Every time a national politician or elected official or hired-thug bureaucrat makes a sound that suggests the United States needs to be more like Europe, they should be removed from office or fired.
Someone needs to take action
Many of us have seen the videos, captured on people's cell phones and then downloaded onto the Internet.
We call it 'free speech' in America
Believe it or not, and there is a growing segment of our nation that is clearly on the "not" side, Mike Heick is precisely the person that our Bill of Rights were written to protect.
Learn not to burn
The good news is, according to the experts it's not supposed to stay this blasted hot for too long.
Let's respect our flag
In Ohio, they've got a bunch of folks hopping mad because of a flagpole malfunction that was believed to have international overtones.
We should be able to choose
Kansans need to pay attention to what is happening in Topeka these days and they need to keep it in mind longer than it takes to watch a sitcom, if we want to improve government in our home state. They need to remember it when elections roll around again, frankly.
We need to remember our 'neighbors'
You gotta feel for the folks down in the southeast who were smashed with the full force of nature this past week.
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Immunizations still necessary
Prevention is the best medicine.
Joint effort
They are words one doesn't often hear in the same sentence – local government, federal government, state government and cooperation. However, they were strung together during the Barton County Commission meeting Monday morning.
A big ‘atta boy’
The third-annual Great Bend Farm and Ranch Expo closed Friday after another successful three-day run. The hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of attendees have gone and the Expo Complex is empty.
For kids' sake
Requests for help – from people needing food, or cash to pay their rent or utilities – are on the rise in our community, and Great Bend is not alone. Locally, we know that our Barton County Emergency Aid Association and Food Bank, Catholic Social Service and others have seen an increase in requests.
Football player honored
Satanta High School freshman Anthony Crump walked to the front of Midian Shrine Temple in Wichita Saturday to receive a special honor.
First impressions
The Great Bend City Council Monday night received some good economic development news when it learned that the Grand Island, Neb.,-based HeartlandAg wanted to open a new site just outside the city limits. The company has purchased in the neighborhood of 33 acres just north of the city limits on the west side of U.S. 281 to build a new commercial fertilizer equipment sales, parts and supply facility.
Farming important to us all
It's been four years since the 3i Show packed its tents and left Great Bend for the last time. The biannual event which alternated between Great Bend and Garden City drew throngs to town, and filled motels and restaurants.
GOP unchained
Kansas loves the Second Amendment, as the Senate proved again this week when approving the "gun-rights bill," 34-2, and sending it to an equally receptive House.
Bellendir, Boeckman dispute highlights need for third party reporting
Monday following the Barton County Commission meeting, the below explanation was given on the dispute between Sheriff Brian Bellendir and County Attorney Richard Boeckman on the county's Facebook page. It said:
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