Comments by JFish
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Posted on October 28 at 7:27 p.m.
Replace the W.A. White signs??? No way! W.A. White did some very important work for Emporia. He lived here for a very long time, and still has family living here running the newspaper. He and his family who have passed on are buried in Emporia.
William Allen White is absolutely pivotal in Emporia history and where Emporia has been, is, and even where the town will be. He is part of Kansas history. He is part of United States history.
I'm shocked that anyone would even consider removing the W.A. White signs at the entrance to the community. I cannot imagine such a thing.
William Allen White is a long term, lasting source of pride for Emporia and for Kansas.
Posted on October 23 at 7:57 p.m.
Thanks for the information. That's what I was curious about.
Posted on October 23 at 2:26 p.m.
People die every single year of whatever seasonal flu is going around. And it is almost always because of some underlying condition. We rarely, if ever, get a daily mortality count. Why this one?
We need to stay home if we're sick. That means, don't go shopping and don't go to work sick, at all. Don't spread the flu around, either the H1N1 or the seasonal flu.
We should wash our hands frequently when out, even carry hand sanitizer, and not touch our faces. And stay away from coughing people (who should not be out exposing other people to it anyway.)
I wonder why this one is making such waves when the seasonal flu doesn't make waves this big, yet it too kills people every single year.
Posted on August 5 at 11:27 p.m.
Dr. Harris is a wonderful doctor. He also is kind to his patients and explains things well.
AND, he has a magnificent, beautiful singing voice. If you've ever stood in front of him and his family at church during the songs, you know what I'm talking about.
Posted on July 26 at 10:29 p.m.
I haven't lived in Emporia for 7 years now. The previous 7 to that were spent in Emporia.
While living there, I found that we simply had to go out of town to shop because stores there often didn't have what we wanted. We tried to shop in Emporia, but sometimes that was not possible.
We regularly shopped Waters, Town Crier, Blue Stem, etc., and were very happy with them. We still do shop in Emporia at those stores.
All the furniture that we own came from Emporia stores.
Now that we are out of town, we don't feel compelled to try to support Emporia anymore. We have our own town to support as we can.
The store manager pointing out that if all those people had shopped there regulary before, they'd still be in business was correct in his observation. But could those people have afforded to shop there that often for the prices they had before they decided to go out of business? Not likely.
A store like Hastings is fun to shop in. But while we're tossing around sources to blame about this, consider the economy. It's more than just the online stuff or out of town shopping, it's also the economy.
All those people who lost their jobs are not shopping as much. They simply cannot. Even tourists and out of towners who come in will likely be more careful with their money.
Many people who still have jobs are being careful, saving for their own turn at unemployment.
Some, like us, were forced into early retirement, slashing our income permanently, thus slashing our ability to buy. We have to be more careful.
And people who are out of work are sometimes staying out of work, not by choice either. Or they are moving.
Posted on April 10 at 11:34 p.m.
Old dog, it appears fewer than 5,000 people voted. By your calculations that is 27% of the voters. (If 73% did not vote.)
How many registered voters are in Emporia?
According to the 2000 census, at that time there were over 26,000 people in Emporia. There are likely a few fewer now due to the lay-offs and cut backs.
Over 25% of those were children under 18.
There are likely some people in Emporia who aren't citizens.
There are some who are too ill to vote.
But the real question is, how many registered voters are living in Emporia? And are those numbers up to date? Any dead people still on the voter list? Any people who've moved out of Emporia still on the list?
I'm thinking that saying 73% of eligible voters didn't vote might be a huge overstatement.
But since you brought it up, I'm so curious how many registered voters are in Emporia.
Posted on October 3 at 10:17 a.m.
They both did a good job. But I didn't like how Palin refused to answer the questions about deregulation. We don't know where she stands on that now, because of her outright refusal to respond. It's pretty important in today's world to know how the candidates think on that.
And I wish someone would teach the politicians who cannot properly pronounce "nuclear" how to pronounce it! Bush and Palin both say "Nu-cu-lar." That is not proper. Biden said it right. Carter said it wrong when he was in office.
Posted on September 23 at 6:01 p.m.
I'm not sure that I get this. It's a "right" to smoke anyplace, at any time? I'm not sure why.
Nobody is trying to get anyone to outlaw smoking.
Are smokers so terribly attached to cigarettes that they can't wait until they are in a more appropriate place than a restaurant where food is served to smoke?
It doesn't make sense to me. I'm not trying to be rude to smokers or anyone else. I'd just like to understand why their right to smoke supercedes others' right not to breathe cigarette smoke, and why they can't simply go do it elsewhere.
If this has to do with freedoms, then look at it from the other side. Many laws come about because people won't, on their own, behave in a reasonable, civil manner. They are treading on other people's rights in some manner. So, a law is made to compell people to behave.
There are rights being stepped on no matter which way you look at it. Smoking is an option, not a requirement for life.
For instance, we can take seeing eye dogs into restaurants and certain stores that we can't take other dogs into. Having a dog along for most of us isn't a requirement, and in many places we just can't take them. But a blind person might need their seeing eye dog, thus it is a requirement, and they should have their dogs with them.
When it's shown that smokers cannot get along without a cigarette for X amount of time, then personally, I'd back their right to have a cigarette. If they need it to stay alive or to stay healthy, then fine with me. Until then, I see it as an option that doesn't need to be done in my air space.
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Posted on October 29 at 1:52 p.m.
Thank you for clarifying and fixing that Gwen. I'm relieved!
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