Competitive Republican primaries for U.S. Senate don’t come along very often in Kansas, so the race between 1st District Congressman Jerry Moran and 4th District Congressman Todd Tiahrt to fill the spot of retiring U.S. Senator Sam Brownback is receiving the most state-wide attention of any tilt that will be on the August 5 ballot.
In mathematics, there is something called the Archimedean property of the real numbers. I could give you a technical definition, but what it boils down to in good old fashioned Oklahoma talk is that little things add up.
• The Girard, Pittsburg and Frontenac basketball teams have good showings as they celebrate their Homecomings Friday.
For those who like to mix business and politics, a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court will likely be considered a victory. But for those who prefer clean, clear campaigns and elections free of corporate involvement, that same decision is something akin to a nightmare.
Louis “Cas” Casaletto reached over a pile of boxes and retrieved a galette from the eight arranged in a semi-circle on his garage wall.
Thumbs up... to Ed McKechnie, chief commercial officer for Watco Companies, who was appointed Wednesday by Gov. Mark Parkinson to the Kansas Board of Regents, a nine-member body which governs more than 30 Kansas universities and colleges.
Some time back I was bemoaning the fact that TBS had reduced the number of Law and Order reruns and that I was reduced to watching House and Bones. It was then a friend—and I forget which one—told me about another show called NCIS. She—I do remember it was a she—said that I should watch a run of 3 episodes in a row to get familiar with the characters and their relationships and I would be hooked.
• Local students perform well at the Crawford County Spelling Bee Friday. The bee will be held 9 a.m. at Pittsburg High School.
Kansas state lawmakers received another piece of bad news in a 2010 session that seems rife with the negative.
I stopped halfway through my sidewalk singing and snow relocation efforts Saturday morning and leaned on my shovel to survey my work — especially interested in whether I’d kept a straight line from the front steps to the street. Not bad, I mused, but not as good as grandpa.
