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Certified city/county/public schools planner, K-State & KC sports fan, & proud father -- Not necessarily in that order. 6th generation Kansan.
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submitted 2 days ago • 1444 comments

Opening bell at the NYSE starts now.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“DOGE won’t just fall short of Musk’s deficit-reduction goals. It will, in all probability, increase the deficit,” Jonathan Chait writes. Are the deficit-reduction efforts just a pretext for ideological warfare? theatln.tc/0zdiT2Hb

submitted 7 days ago • 159 comments

NYT Games SPOILER ALERT. The Spangram for Opening Day of baseball was timely, and its design was genius. Well done, @nytimes.com

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Current US economic policy.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Getting ready to buy cars for 2 teenaged children. Cost of the vehicles & insurance was significant w/o this lunacy. 🤬 "Drury said consumers can expect price hikes 'across the board.' That includes new cars, used cars, maintenance costs and even insurance premiums" www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

📌NOTE: Immediately after the vile attack on Zelensky by Putin's puppets Friday, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should have called a joint press conference and explained to the American public the significance, heinousness and danger of that sickening surrender. 📌They should STILL be talking now.

submitted 36 days ago • 2503 comments

My family has paid many visits to our National Parks, National Forests, & National Historic Places. I've seen park rangers teach, serve, & even rescue those who came to commune with the beauty & history of this country. Not once have I encountered a ranger who seemed unkind, much less extraneous.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I'm guessing we're only a few months away from Musk announcing a new defense software called Skynet.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 44 days ago • 1023 comments

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Researchers don't include unnecessary terms in their analysis. The only possible outcome here is increased ignorance and injury to public health.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

“On Friday morning, the staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make: Defy President Donald Trump’s order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die. They chose the children.”

submitted 65 days ago • 11 comments

Trump is casting blame on the air traffic controllers, ahead of any official assessment of the cause of the crash. I can't imagine trying to manage a catastrophe like this with someone in a position of public trust going on TV and offering guesses about the cause. Pettiness making a tragedy worse.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I'd have put a lot of money on this press conference quickly becoming a lecture on how this wasn't his fault, and how all the people he doesn't like are to blame. Most importantly, after paying basic lip service to the tragedy and its victims, it's all about him.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Gene Hackman's performance in Mississippi Burning is one of my favorite acting jobs of all time. Happy 95th, Gene. May we all remember the message of this important film.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

When I see posts about the #ksleg preparing to submit bills that impact public education.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

The people who scoffed at calls for climate change mitigation and preparedness are the same as those who now ask why government didn't do more to prevent the California fires, and they'll be the same ones who call proposals to build back with preventative practices, "government overreach."

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Chiefs fans, do we care about the outcome of any of today’s games? If not I’ll just watch the ones with the worst weather.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Before you go trusting Elon to "fix" the country, consider what he did w/ Twitter. He came in preaching free speech & efficiency, removed staff & standards, & what has it become? It's now the online home of our national "Id" - an amplifier of the worst of us that erodes the bonds of our communities.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Today in the parking lot at work I found myself embroiled in a brutal Midwest Nice-Off. A coworker and I needed to pass through the same spot, and both of us sat facing one another, gesturing as if to say, "After you." I ultimately went first, which I think means I lost.

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

Chiefs vs. Bills never disappoints. This is becoming one of the great rivalries.

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

"Don't accept that what's happening Is just a case of others' suffering Or you'll find that you're joining in The turning away" Some music just hits a little harder these days.

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments