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Kansas Republicans target abortion rights

March 26, 2011, 3:36 pm
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It is not surprising that a house, senate and governor, completely in the hands of the Kansas Republican Party, would try and pass as many obstacles against abortion as is possible under the rules of the U.S. Supreme Court.
So they have passed a law HB 2218, a ban on later term abortion with no exception for fetal anomaly or clear definition of physical conditions that would constitute a threat great enough to the mother to allow the procedure.
Several women’s groups, such as National Organization for Women (NOW) and Trust Women have tried to fight the bill the best they could.
A site for Trust Womensaid;
This bill removes the ability of pregnant women and families to make critical decisions about pregnancy in consultation with their physicians. It puts lawmakers in the position of health care administrator and decision-maker and bans safe, legal procedures. HB 2218 is nothing more than political interference in a pregnant woman’s most personal, private medical decisions.
What is really ridiculous about this bill and others across the country is that they will simply be overturned if the Republican Party looses its grip on power as it did during the Barack Obama election.
The Kansas Legislators know they can’t just ban abortion so they come up with as many restrictions as possible. So far South Dakota has the most restrictive abortionrules on the books. Republicans will continue to chip away from abortion rights even though there are powerful women’s groups to oppose that.
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Wichita didn’t want the casino—Mulvane does—let them have it

March 28, 2011, 9:04 am
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It’s amazing how Kansas Legislators can dance around a bill and not really talk about it. House Resolution 6015 is such a bill. It threatens to shut down a planned casino project in Mulvane. Hundreds of construction jobs will be lost and hundreds of permanent jobs will be lost as well. Chances are that those stopping it are doing so for religious purposes, even though few if any legislators will admit that.
According toKansasReporter.org;
Democrat Rep. Kathy Wolfe Moore, of Kansas City, said as far as she can tell the law was followed by the developer and the Racing and Gaming Commission.
“We set out certain standards and it appears to me from what I read that all those standards were followed every step of the way—now we’re crying foul and it doesn’t seem fair to those involved,” Wolfe Moore said. “I would like to know is this really about the contract or is this really anti-gaming?”
 
One of the opponents of this bill is Steve Brunk who has made it clear he doesn’t want such operations in Kansas. Again the KansasReporter.org;
“The intent behind this thing was to keep legislators from doing something nefarious to try to attempt to use their influence over the Gaming Commission to try to get them to decide one way or another … to use their influence to subvert the process,” Brunk said.  “But the way it was written says we can’t speak out about it. (The law) was poorly written.”
But the people of Mulvane voted to have this Casino and efforts to stop it are by a bunch of religious sore losers who just don’t want gaming. In these bad economic times, this kind of development could turn unemployment problems around. We need to get rid of House Resolution 6015. It’s just bad economics.
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Local newspaper points out developer’s campaign contribution

March 30, 2011, 5:52 pm
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    • The Wichita Eagle came out with an article that shows just how much money the local developers put into local campaigns. It is no secret that land developers have had the city council in their back pocket and this is how they do it.
    Of the Developers Dave Burk has backed Mayor Carl Brewer, because of his use of local funding for downtown redevelopment. Brewer also got support from David Wells, co-founder of Key Construction.
    Burk and his wife gave three contributions of $500 each to Pete Meitzner, District 2; Joshua Blick, District 4; and Jeff Longwell, District 5.
    Wells and his wife gave $1,000 to Blick and Longwell and $1,500 to Meitzner.
    Steve Clark, real estate developer, gave $500 each to Stevens and O'Donnell.
    Other business people have contributed to campaigns and some with equal or greater value. But the real estate and developers seem to get the most out of local Government and the common people get the least. We get fewer parks, less money for libraries and road work for developers gets a higher priority than the rest of the city’s citizens. When it comes to problems of homelessness, It’s hard to tell this city even has a government.
    Big money messes up all our elections so it is no surprise that people need land developers income to get elected here in Wichita.





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    Brewer new mayor-same old business

    April 6, 2011, 8:21 am
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    Wichita Peace and Freedom Party Examiner;


    Mayor Carl Brewer won re-election as Wichita’s Mayor. The race was never close. Brewer had all the money and businesses behind him. He got 69 percent of the votes according to The Wichita Eagle;

    Council winners included Michael O'Donnell, the only candidates that opposed spending the city’s money on business partnerships. The others were, Pete Meitzner, James Clendenin, and Jeff Longwell, all Brewer clones.

    With this crew, Brewer and his bunch can continue what they refer to as “down town development.” That does not mean the emphasis is to restore the businesses down town that are now boarded up and closed, but to allow developers to clutter up the Arkansas River banks with new stores, mostly national chains.

    This is a town that has nearly half a million people and a buss system that doesn’t even go to half the city. The buss closes at 6pm, before many workers haven’t even got of their jobs yet. Taxis are hugely expensive and for all practical purposes, mass transportation does not exist.

    The turnout was low. Usually such elections draw under 30 percent of the voters and little attention is given to them by our local press and TV news. All those who won outspent their rivals, so once again it is moneyed interests that run Wichita.

    Wichita is a pro-business city where the needs of wealthy business people get what they want and infrastructure is ignored to the working class neighbourhoods. The poor and working class are completely ignored. In other words, it’s business as usual.

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    New Workers Comp Laws are class warfare

    April 16, 2011, 1:12 pm
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    The Kansas Legislature has enacted new worker compensation laws that appear to be nothing more than class warfare against Kansas workers. All the new laws are designed to make it harder for a worker to get compensated for injuries caused by their job.
    According to the Wichita Business Journal the new laws will;
    • Require additional proof that an injury was suffered at work,
    • Limit the payout to workers who don’t make a good-faith effort to return to work, and
    • Raise the caps on settlements.
    The Kansas House and Senate unanimously voted on the bill. Gov. Sam Brownback is expected to sign the bill and it will go into law and take effect May 15.
    One focus on the bill is to try and eliminate people getting compensated for long term affects of such problems as corporate tunnel syndrome. Many companies have a company doctor who will do anything to keep a worker on the job no matter how bad they are injured. This bill may make it harder for those who get a second opinion from a different doctor.
    There is no doubt these new laws will make it easier on businesses. It will save them buckets of money. But it will leave working people with a very limited safety net if they are injured and unable to work. They may even make it harder of an injured worker to get unemployment if they are injured and can’t work before a layoff. They won’t be eligible for unemployment. If they can’t get workers comp. they will have no income at all.
    This is the new age brought to us by the new Kansas Republicans.

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    Why do we need such big vehicles?

    April 21, 2011, 8:42 am
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    Anti-abortion terrorists win in court

    April 21, 2011, 11:26 am
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    So far Federal judges have protected an avowed anti-abortion terrorist from keeping away from an abortionist doctor who plans to practice here in Wichita.
    A federal judge on Wednesday refused the government's request for a preliminary injunction ordering Angel Dillard, of Valley Center, Kan., to stay away from Dr. Mila Means, of Wichita, Kan., her clinic and her home.
    Even though Dillard has written a letter threatening Means, the courts have ruled she is protected by the First Amendment of the constitution.
    According to a letter published in The Wichita Eagle;
    Thousands of people are already looking into your background…..They will know your habits and routines.
    They will know where you shop, who your friends are, what you drive, where you live. You will be checking under your car  everyday-because maybe today is the day someone places an explosive under it.
    The rest of the letter is mostly an attempt to shame Means, but threatening her with a bomb under her car is a threat not an opinion.
    The government has had no problem arresting anti-war protesters for allegedly supporting foreign terrorist, only by meeting with people outside the U.S. or for their opinions on foreign affairs. These people have been refused protection from the first amendment, but local anti-abortionists are a different story.
    According to Gonzo Times;
    …in response to the FBI raids on seven homes and an anti-war office on Friday, September 24, 2010. The FBI also handed subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury to fourteen activists in Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan. These activists are involved in many groups, including the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, the Palestine Solidarity Group, the Colombia Action Network, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. These activists and many others came together to organize the 2008 anti-war marches during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. In December, 2010, 9 Palestine solidarity activists in Chicago were also subpoenaed.
    What happened to the first amendment rights of these people? It seems only those whose aims are different from the Republican Party can be treated as terrorists and only then can a threat be considered a crime instead of speech.
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    Kansans rally for Planned Parenthood

    April 23, 2011, 8:35 pm
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    A few hundred people came out to show their support for the funding of Planned Parenthood, this Saturday at noon. It started with a rally where several people testified how important Planned Parenthood has been in their life. One positive sign was the amount of young people who came. Some were only teenagers.
    “They claim that 99 percent of our services are abortion related,” said Kari Ann Rinker, one of the rally’s main speakers and a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood. “That is a lie. The truth is closer to 5 percent.”
    She also said that legislators on capital hill have an agenda and they don’t care that the many services offered by Planned Parenthood, such as pap smears, breast exams and prenatal care would not be available to poor women without insurance. She said for every dollar spent on Planned Parenthood, it would cost this society six dollars for poor people’s services.
    As most people know, Planned Parenthood provides birth control which prevents pregnancies. It also supplies testing for venereal disease.
    After the rally, people lined Central Street with signs supporting Planned Parenthood.
    Earlier, people were encouraged to sign cards to send to Kansas legislators to stop the attacks on Planned Parenthood.  Planned Parenthood has been in existence for the last 80 years.

     
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    Kansas Republicans continue to attack abortion clinics

    April 30, 2011, 2:56 pm
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    Kansas Legislators have passed some of the strictest bills since Roe v. Wade and it is all designed to block abortions from being performed in Wichita. The bill now goes on to the state governor.
    According to The Wichita Eagle abortion clinics would be inspected at least twice a year. There have been no credible claims that abortion clinics are dirty, sloppy or unsafe. Some republicans have accused abortion clinics of “cutting corners” to save money, but no evidence of this has ever been presented. Pro-abortion rights groups have seen the new regulations a different way.
    “(These bills are) designed to impose such strict regulations that most abortion providers in Kansas will find it a challenge to keep their doors open,” said Julie Burkhart, of Trust Women. “Here's a video that shows Representative Ritze talking about how unsafe abortion.”
    Kansas Republicans are claiming that this bill is being passed because the health and safety of women is at stake."But the reality is that all of these Republicans got elected with the backing of anti-abortion churches and organizations.
    It is very likely that this bill will not be the last. The present Republican controlled Kansas House and Senate will continue to pass more restrictions on abortion until it is completely impractical to get an abortion in Kansas. The assumption that the abortion providing clinics are unsanitary or unsafe is just a scare tactic and an insult to abortion providing doctors in Kansas.

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    Reaction to the death of Osama Bin Laden in Wichita, KS

    May 3, 2011, 5:55 pm
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    Reaction to Osama Bin Laden’s death has met with mixed reactions here in Wichita KS. Of course many people, including members of the Patriot Guard, Legion bikers held a parade to support U.S. military. Some Kansas politicians also made positive statements. Mike Pompeo, District 4 of the US House of Representatives issued this statement;
    "I am thrilled to learn that America has defeated one of our greatest enemies, the former head of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden.
    "As a former member of the armed services, I am deeply proud of the courageous work performed by my brethren who worked so doggedly to take down Bin Laden. For years, our intelligence officers, soldiers, airmen, marines and sailors have committed themselves to combating the scourge of terrorism. They deserve our most sincere appreciation for a job well done and I am grateful that those Americans who are responsible for this success are able to return home, unharmed.
    "America is now more secure as a result of the strength of our armed services and those who brought this long-running pursuit to a decisive and successful end.  We need also to remember those who gave their lives in this effort -- they will never be forgotten,"
    Yet there were a few people, many from the Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas, who were not comfortable with the idea of celebrating a persons death, even if that person was bad. According to Janet Perrell;
    Since the "war on terror" began, it has created thousands of Bin Ladens. He's a martyr now and this announcement and the way the US is playing it will most likely create even more. To respond to the 9/11 attack with 2 endless wars and occupations, torture, secret prisons and the deaths of around a million soldiers and civilians has not made us more safe and celebrating his death is jingoistic and barbaric.
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    Alice Cooper - School's Out

    May 11, 2011, 7:36 pm
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    Kansas Legislature is killing Public Education

    May 11, 2011, 7:38 pm
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    We have more teachers, programs and personnel who will be axed from the Wichita School System budget to appease the Kansas Legislators as they take an ax to the state education budget. Other state schools will face similar cuts.
    According to KWCH-TV, on Monday, the Wichita school board announced 168 cuts for next year, without saying how many teaching positions will go. Many cuts will be teachers, however others will be other staff positions such as coaches and custodians.
    Other state schools will face budget cuts such as Hutchinson, with possibly more than ten positions lost. That school system has been able to meet the cuts through teacher attrition, retirement and by not renewing contracts non-tenured teachers. Salina and Independence are facing similar problems.
    Kansas spends more money than most other states on Roads and Highways than it does on education, according to the Lawrence Journal World. It seems the state legislators don’t consider education of its future generations to be a high priority but roadways are very high on the list.

     
    Why are they so worried about future generations dealing with a deficit budget when they won’t be educated enough to really understand it.
    Kansas legislators are being short sited and just plain unfair to its school age youngsters. Drivers Ed, foreign language courses and some sports activities are due to be cut. Why is this state punishing an entire generation for its own mistakes? Cutting education to balance the state budget is just plain sick. We are destroying our future for a few numbers on the states accounting books. That is insane.
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    Kansas Gov. Brownback wants to kill public art

    May 13, 2011, 7:16 pm
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    Gov. Sam Brownback is trying to cut all funding to the Kansas Arts Commission. He seems to want to put a complete end to publicly funded art and replace it with corporate funded art.
    He has already announced that its five employees will lose their jobs, according to The Wichita Eagle. Brownback has made no effort to hide his plans to completely de-fund public art in Kansas.
    The Kansas legislature, both the house and senate are dominated by Republicans and many are in agreement with Brownback. However some would like to designate $689,000 in the next budget to keep the commission alive, but Brownback is expected to line-item veto that proposal.
    Brownback wants to replace the KAC with a non-profit foundation financed by private donations. Such donations often come from corporations who want their logo on everything.
    The US is flooded with corporate funding, which usually shows up as corporate logo or name on items somewhere. We just got a new arena in Wichita and it is named after a bank because that bank gave the city some money for the privilege of getting that name on the building.
    Traditional art, which goes back to ancient civilizations, is disappearing from the US and most of our artistic talents now go to commercial enterprises and corporate logos. Italy has the Sistine Chapel, and as a friend pointed out, the US has golden arches. Andy Warhol became an important artist by showing us what our culture really looks like. It is obsessed with movie stars and corporate labels.
    We need public art to allow our own unique culture to develop without economic interference. This is one place where corporations don’t belong. Ants, bees and termites build structures for them to live in. Termites build mounds that resemble small buildings. None of these insects have art, despite their well organized societies. We are not insects and art separates us from the purely utilitarian nature of such bugs.

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    First Annual Blogathon

    May 16, 2011, 9:28 am
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    Please don’t pledge a 1/2¢ because out government doesn’t mint those anymore. Just push the donation button and give us your 1¢ pledge.

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    Jobs are down—Republicans hope it will get better in 10 years

    May 26, 2011, 10:31 pm
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    When it comes to promoting jobs in Kasas, the Republican Party has kept its pledge of helping business with a better business climate, fewer regulations, better tax breaks, and they are hoping these businesses will hire people at some time in the future.
    In the short run they are cutting public sector jobs to save tax money. They are reducing the tax base by causing more unemployment. But they have ignored that in order to please businesses.
    According to The Wichita Eagle, The 2011 budget authorized 41,521 full-time-equivalent positions. That is 65 jobs less than the previous year.
    Cuts made along the way, tally the final jobs number for the state this year, up at 41,147, which is a loss of 374 positions. The 2012 spending plan, beginning July 1, authorizes 39,184 positions, a loss of 1,963 from the current year. That is about a 5 percent reduction.
    The cuts in education are causing a shortage of teaching and school staff positions. The Republicans brag that there will be more jobs as the economy expands. They seem to be in no hurry. It seems they want to replace most public sector jobs with private sector ones. They are also willing to wait several years for all this growth to finally bring in some jobs. The jobless can just wait it out. An estimate from The Wichita Eagle claims we still have 20,000 people in Sedgwick County without jobs. Prosperity is right around the corner. It’s a long corner.

    
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    Gov. Brownback—plenty for roads—nothing for art

    June 1, 2011, 4:56 pm
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    Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has started a national debate by eliminating funding for arts programs. According to The Wichita Eagle,he wants private donations to pay for all the state’s art. If he and others have their way, public art will disappear and all art will be corporate art. At the same time the state's transportation funding program, has been awarded $529 million worth of road projects for south-central Kansas, according to The Wichita Eagle.
    A lot of our art already is corporate art. We have corporate names on just about every building constructed for the public including the new Exploration Place, science museum which has a lot of rooms with the names of the aircraft companies. They no doubt paid for those names to be on those rooms. So Wichita’s public buildings and museums are all financed and then named after local corporations. They probably decide what goes into these museums.
    The Wichita Art Museum also has The Emprise Bank Research Library,

    another room paid for by a corporation that wants publicity for its
    contribution. It has some great works of art by some well known and progressive Kansans. But What about the future. Will the Wichita Art Museum end up begging people to donate as our public radio show does now?
    Brownback is not leaving the next generation much to appreciate about Kansas.


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    June a bad choice for the River Festival

    June 8, 2011, 11:02 am
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    The River Festival has always been a kind of commercial extravaganza for local businesses who want to get their name and wares displayed in a large crowd. There’s still a river run that a local bank puts on.
    And yet we can’t really blame the city for wanting to put on an event that draws people from miles around to visit an enjoy Wichita.
    I’ve complained about various aspects of the festival in the past, but as with the Grinch, I don’t want to steal fun away from the families and the people who actually do enjoy this festival.
    On the positive side, they put more events closer to the river. They want people to appreciate the river even it if is too polluted to use for actual events, such as the old bathtub races.
    But our city officials always come up with something stupid to mess up an event. This year they moved it from May to June because a few events got rained out in May. Now it is in June and this year we have had triple digit temperatures which are normally rare for this time of the year. Monday through Wednesday was about 100° plus.

     
    How many of us really want to check out the food court and the concerts when the temperatures are at such a dangerous level. Even our kids should not spend much time in this heat.
    Last year I heard complaints that people who go to the music concerts are usually crammed into an area open to the hot sun where they can’t bring in their own drinks. They have to buy overpriced bottled water and other refreshments from venders there. They can’t even bring their own water. Many young people I know just don’t go and that was last year when the temperatures weren’t as bad.
    The high temperatures could be global warming, but it is way too early to tell. If this happens five years in a row, we will know something is wrong. For this year it may just be bad luck. But the festival is still being held at a really bad time period.
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    Farmers take a hit from federal subsidy cuts

    June 14, 2011, 10:10 pm
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    The poor, teachers and government workers are not alone in loosing income and financial safety nets. Now Washington’s Representatives are going after the farmers. They want to end farm subsidies.
    Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp was one of the Republicans who have supported the plan. He is from the First District in Kansas, which is mostly farmland and staunchly Republican. The GOP spending blueprint’s Budget Committee plans to save $30 billion from the farm program over the next decade.
    Heulskamp is the committee too decide where those cuts will be made. According to The Wichita Eagle, the cuts will be an easy sell to some farmers who want to wean even them off the welfare system. Others see it as cutting the throats of some farming communities.
    Huelskamp’s own parents have received $1,169,499 in federal farm subsidies from 1995 to 2009, according to Micheal Hahoney’s 20 Pounds of headlines blog. Other congressmen and women from farm states have also received some type of federal funds.

     
    Although many of Heulskamp’s constituents are farmers, they are usually die-hard supporters of their Republican Representative. But they have never been asked to live with the kind of subsidy cuts they are facing today. Their philosophy is pure Republican and for now most believe that they will be better of if they can live without out help from the federal government. Many may find in the long run that it was not in their best interest and that the “rugged individualism” they claim to believe in will leave them in serious financial trouble should there be another disaster such as the dust-bowl days.

     
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    Wichita’s inadequate buss system may not run on Saturday

    June 22, 2011, 6:31 pm
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    The Wichita City Council is considering ending buss service on Saturdays. The City’s bus service is already a joke. This is a major city with almost half a million people and the busses only run until 6p.m. Some people can’t even use it to get home from work, because they get out after the busses have stopped running.
    Wichita is one of the few cities that don’t have any real public transportation. Most large cities have a buss that runs late into the night. And most buss systems cover at least most of any large city (that doesn’t have some kind of subway system).
    According to The Wichita Eagle the City Council also want to raise fares from $1.25 to $1.75. Even if they raise the fairs, it is cheaper to travel around town on a buss than fill up a car every few days with $50 or more. Once again poor people are the targets of city budget cuts. They city can contribute to investments for a River-walk Project we don’t really need. But anything that helps people, either to get to work, or old people who can’t drive to get around and shop, the City just forgets them.

     
    They also developed a downtown area, with all kinds of bars and restaurants, to bring people back to that part of town, but if people go there to drink, they either have to pay $30 to $50 for a cab home or they get a DUI for driving themselves home. No one has ever thought about the idea of a buss to take people to and from the downtown area. Almost every other city has a system like that. There are also people without cars who could work a third shift if there was a night-time buss. According to The Wichita Eagle article, a lot of people in Wichita rely on the buss system. But the City Council doesn’t care. They only listen to people with big money.
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    Fireworks on the Forth are a tradition

    July 1, 2011, 8:42 pm
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    For years Wichita has banned fireworks. The “over-safety crowd” decided they were too dangerous. People set them off for years and when the couldn’t by them legal, they went out of state or out of county.
    Bottle Rockets have been illegal for decades in Kansas. But many people bring them in from Missouri. Some people make their own fireworks. They may use black or smokeless powder bought from a shop that sells gun loading equipment. Others use match stick heads. These aren’t the best explosives, but they do make a bang.
    According to The Wichita Eagle the city could enact a firework ban sometime this week if the drought conditions continue. The fear is justified. It doesn’t take much to start a prairie fire. But people are already buying the fireworks now. Do they really believe no one will light them because of a last minute ban?
    Fireworks have been a tradition of Independence Day for the last two centuries. Who is seriously going to try and stop than now?

    According to Wikipedea,fireworks were used to celebrate the fourth as early as1777. On that day thirteen gunshotswere fired, once at morning and again as evening fell, on July 4 in Bristol, Rhode Island. Philadelphia celebrated the first anniversary in a manner a modern American would find quite familiar: an official dinner for the Continental Congress, toasts, 13-gun salutes, speeches, prayers, music, parades, troop reviews, and fireworks. Ships were decked with red, white, and blue bunting.


    
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