Comments by JohnDoe
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Posted on August 28 at 12:26 a.m.
Looks like a great idea! Glad to see some new and innovative plans to revitalize downtown!
Posted on August 25 at 11:55 p.m.
I've said it before and i'll say it again. We need new business in Emporia, not more of the same. Lowe's coming in will put Sutherlands (and possibly others) out of business. All we can expect to gain is more empty buildings. We'll be losing without really gaining anything new. How about a home decorating store like HomeGoods, an italian restaurant, maybe a Chipotle. Hardware and lumber are probably the last things I would need to travel out of town for. As a matter of fact I've always found a good selection of whatever I need with the stores in town. I'm ready for something unseen in Emporia, who's with me?
Posted on August 21 at 10:15 p.m.
College kids party and have fun. That's old news folks, it's been happening for decades. I think we can all agree there are many more dangerous ways to have fun than sitting on a couch drinking in your front lawn. Unless I'm mistaken, no one is causing a drunk-driving accident if they don't leave home. Seems pretty harmless to me. If your children (or college students in general) can't tell when it's time for fun and when it's time to get serious and study, they will fail in the real world too.
College is a time to experience life and learn outside the childhood home. Accordingly, that means taking the good with the bad and having enough common sense to make the right decisions. If you look hard enough you'll find that same kind of behavior at nearly every college, even at the private colleges. It's just a factor of the age group. Deal with it and move on.
Posted on August 20 at 10:08 p.m.
We also lack a lot of the hippies, weirdos, and riffraff that plague places like Lawrence and Manhattan. Don't believe me? Take a walk down Mass street in Lawrence during the school year. Not that we don't compete it's just that we're different here. There is no price that you can put on the close-knit, familiar-face environment that ESU offers. People say "hello" and you know a lot of your fellow classmates by name. KU and KSU can't offer that when their campus size is 25-30K and a gen-ed course can have nearly a thousand students.
Perhaps that's how we should start marketing ESU. Market an educational environment that's unique, realistic, and the others simply can't deliver. ESU: You're more than just a number! ESU: We won't make you camp out for tickets to athletic events! ESU: Our professors acknowledge/recognize their students outside of class. ESU: There's more to college than winning a bowl game!
Posted on August 20 at 9:41 p.m.
Bars in bigger area that have enacted smoking bans have built accomodations for their smoking crowd such as decks and patios. The last time I checked the majority of bars, especially bars downtown, would have great difficulty accomplishing that. It would discourage business in a time we need the most revenue we can get. Not to mention make more vacancies downtown. I'm a non-smoker and I highly oppose this on the grounds of what it does to business owners who have done nothing wrong in being accomodating to their clientele. Smoking/non-smoking should be the choice of the owner. If there are that many non-smokers on board it should, in theory, be a lucrative business move to do so.
Perhaps there is a middleground in this. Stay smoking but install air purifiers? I still think this entire thing is pretty ridiculous. Smoke at a bar is about as common as water at a swimming pool. If you can't stand it, don't go. No one is forcing you to go.
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Posted on July 18 at 9:42 p.m.
Newsflash for Mr Trimble: There is always an opposing side in an election. Typically tougher odds when running against an incumbent. Either he's just not cut out for politics our he ignorantly thinks opposition will cease to exist after the election. Suck it up or don't bother, life isn't always as fair as we want it to be.
Posted on July 11 at 12:58 a.m.
Perhaps things have changed since the last time I was there. I always thought Olive Garden as being the "Applebees of Italian." Which it basically is. Also comparable in price. Applebee's is selling $9 burgers and $12 chicken pasta plates. What is a steak dinner at Montana Mikes running these days? Most dinners at OG cost between $9-13. Don't get me wrong, it isn't cheap and our(and my own) avg income obviously can't afford eating there everyday. But it's not a stretch at all from what applebee's and mike's have been pulling off for years. This isn't the giant leap everyone thinks it is.
My reference in the earlier post was not referring to McDonalds, Wendys, and BK. Applebee's, Montana Mike's, and Carlos O'Kelly's was the intended reference. I apologize for the lack of clarity.
Posted on July 10 at 12:23 a.m.
how could an italian restaurant not make it on the west end of town?!? Somehow we support countless burger joints and mexican restaurants. An italian restaurant, like olive garden, would have the sole control of that corner of the market. Where can you really take a date in town? I love montana mike's as much as the next guy but it's not quite a fusion of fine dining and romantic ambience. Italian can work in this town... it just has to be done right. That means not Fazoli's. It pains me to have to drive to topeka and spend my money there for something we could/should have here.
Posted on July 9 at 12:52 a.m.
is this the guy with the "cowboy" sticker on his truck? If so, I think I've seen his dogs riding on the back toolbox of his truck. Looks like it's one abrupt turn away from disaster but aren't there more important things to be concerned about?
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Posted on September 11 at 9:35 p.m.
There is a major factor that is being over-looked by these smoking ban supporters: the businesses effected. Bars in the larger cities with smoking bans have been forced to build costly outdoor patios and open-air decks to accommodate smoking customers purely for survival. The last time I drove around town there is an extremely small number of our establishments(downtown especially) that have the space to make such an enhancement. That's of course if they can afford to do so. This smoking ban only threatens current businesses that have done nothing but accommodate their customers. At a time when the economy is slow, this will only make matters worse. As a non-smoker I don't like smelling like smoke, but it has always been my choice to go to a smoking-permitted business. Let the business owners decide how they want to run their businesses.
Also, did anyone else laugh when they read that "simple," "fair," and "level playing field" equates to EVERYTHING-No Exceptions?!? I thought "fair" was a compromise, not 'all or nothing.'
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