The Emporia Gazette

Giant Pothole damages cars on Sixth Ave.

One of the things I really liked about Kansas when we moved here 17 years ago was the condition of the roads. Kansas had good roads. Let's keep them that way.

And Emporia, please, fix your streets. If you had the money for rocks that few people even notice coming into town, then you should have the money to fix the roads so the people you are trying to get to visit Emporia won't damage their cars while there.

Don't attract tourism until you can support tourism.

December 22, 2011 at 11:43 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Pocket Pets

thanks for the great chuckle. I enjoy your articles a lot.

December 9, 2011 at 10:32 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

None

Steve, volunteers DO cook and feed people. In fact this was a surplus of food left over from Abundant Harvest that feeds the hungry.

And there are volunteers who use their own gasoline to deliver meals on wheels.

I'm not sure why you would object to the elderly or frail getting help with food. Or maybe a poor mother with children for whom going to get those veggies would be a hardship. Where's the compassion?

Or were you joking? I'm not around enough to know names and personalities, so took your post as it is written rather than see a personality in it.

November 29, 2011 at 10:21 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Friends, family, and brain tumor prove it’s the simple things that count

Cheryl is an amazing woman. She was one of the people who helped me acclimate to living in this area when we moved here.

She is vibrant, full of life, and has an amazing amount of internal power that I deeply admire.

And we've kept in touch all these years. I love you Cheryl and am forever grateful to you. Janet

October 21, 2011 at 1:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

‘Halloween’ cemetery tour canceled amid controversy

I'm all in favor of a cemetery tour, but why does it have to wait a whole year? Does it have to be done around Halloween? Can't they have one some afternoon this fall?

I don't have a major opinion on the halloween event. I see no harm. But if it is to be educational, I'd think it would be more effective in the daytime when the layout of the cemetery could be seen along with the rows and rows of headstones. There are sections there that would be interesting to see, but some of that would be lost in the dark.

I guess personally I wouldn't go to one in the dark, just because part of the whole would be lost. During the day there is SO much to learn out there.

In fact, why not have a series of cemetery tours and talks and learn about the place in more detail?

October 19, 2011 at 1:38 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Why do dogs do that?

Thank you for my first laugh of the day! Guess I'll quit asking "Why did you DO that?" when my dogs do something outrageous. I now know it's simply because "they like it."

August 22, 2011 at 7:15 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Bowyer 79 Fund Auction raises over $300,000.00

Methusla, I wasn't born here. But my husband was. In the years I've lived here, I have seen things I didn't like. But I have also seen things I do like. There have been changes, some good, some not so good.

Then there are things I don't understand, like the costs of the clock tower, and the new stones at all the entrances to town. I just don't understand. No judgment, just simply don't understand.

Methusla, I would love to hear what was good way back, what made it such a great place. Do you have stories to tell on that topic? Can you cite just "stuff" that used to be better and good about Emporia? I would love to hear it.

July 24, 2011 at 7:18 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Biking for a cause

Surely there's more to this story? It's a worthy cause, no doubt. No vet should be homeless or without benefits after a military injury. But this story sounds incomplete.

June 19, 2011 at 5:59 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Rural resident shoots stray dogs

What a funny comment for gayzettesux to make, when he himself is using an anonymous handle so he can say what he says without being recognized. Sort of dark humor, huh?

July 17, 2008 at 3:58 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Smoking ban

LOL, BJ, no worry, I'm not campaigning against anything, just expressing an opinion. Moving cattle with big trucks is necessary. Range burning is evidently necessary. Hey, it's always something! ;) And there are certainly bigger problems in this world than where you get to smoke.

Outsider, I understand the slippery slope concept, but we could say that about many laws.

I frankly think it is a shame that we have to even consider a law like this. If people who smoked were all as polite as you are, then there wouldn't be a problem. But they aren't. There are enough smokers who don't give a second thought to other people that finally non-smokers and even smokers who don't want to be in smoke in restaurants are rebelling against it.

I really think it is that simple. If people could just be considerate about their smoke.........

I am in favor of nonsmoking laws to a degree. I've seen them work. But I already have it worked out for my own life where I eat and where I socialize. So, it's not a big problem for me most of the time. I simply don't have the freedom to go to certain restaurants or any bars if I don't want to breathe cigarette smoke. No big deal to me personally.

July 14, 2008 at 11:46 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )