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Posted on October 24 at 2:07 p.m.
Can a relatively healthy person even get vaccinated now? I have never had a flu shot but believe I would be tempted to get a H1N1 jab if I could find one.
Posted on October 20 at 9:49 p.m.
Ordinarily this is where I would say something along the lines of "these teachers need to realize times are tough and quit being so difficult". However, sometime during the last 12 months I have gone from being a Republican to a borderline Communist. On one hand we have a school board willing to spend $1.6 million on a practice field, then plead poverty to the teachers, hard to reconcile that one. And on another hand, we have taxpayers of this nation bailing out companies that are once again considering millions of dollars in bonuses to the very people who led them to ruin, meanwhile, we nickel and dime teachers, firefighters, policemen, you name it. Maybe it is time to light some torches and grab some pitchforks, and sort things out in a little more forceful manner.
Posted on October 9 at 11:39 a.m.
"verily verily I say unto you, down the road to peace you may walketh with the Iranian, and the Libyan, and the North Korean, and the anarchist, and the angry African American preacher, but let not your hand touch that of the Dalai Lama, nor speaketh to him, for he is a warmonger, and must be shunned" from the newest book of the revised American Bible, Obama 3:16.
Posted on October 8 at 8:18 a.m.
Anyone want to start betting on how many years it will take before every single thread will not end up somehow being tied in with the smoking ban?
This could be why our taxes are so high and the government is so out of touch, even at a local level where supposedly there is more control, the voters can't even concentrate on the issue. The issue I believe is if it is necessary in a time of very tight finances to have a 1.6 million dollar pet project as part of a 6+million dollar even bigger pet project, none of which would seem to further the real purpose of the Emporia School system, to educate children to make it in an increasingly tough world. Taxpayers just can't be asked over and over again to fund these pet projects, AND fund what really needs to be done.
Dido, you are pretty much on the mark except it was a couple of great uncles. It is amazing what an average Joe can accomplish in life if he or she has enough wealthy relatives going several generations back.
Posted on October 4 at 7:44 p.m.
Methusla, excellent points. How could kids learn common sense when the administrators and BOE don't have any, other than Mr. Helbert? Common sense is in short supply these days nationwide, if it were more plentiful we might not be in the financial fix we are in today.
Posted on October 1 at 10:07 p.m.
This is why people don't trust government. Apparently just one Emporia BOE member understands we are in a period of economic stress. Of course, there had to be some Emporia school administrators come up with this idea to begin with, personally I think they ought to be fired. The taxpayers are up against the wall right now, at least many are...it is one thing to support public education, it is another to support frills. Some heads need to be knocked together on the BOE and amongst the administration in Emporia.
Posted on August 22 at 6:02 p.m.
A quality newspaper is what is reported, not how it physically looks. I guess we are supposed to be too stupid to figure that out. The changes the Gazette needs to make are not in format or size.
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Posted on August 20 at 8:43 p.m.
I wonder if they will pay any of this $120000 back now??
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Posted on October 24 at 2:42 p.m.
From the outside looking in I think Fred McClain is a class act and I don't believe intentionally mercy rules anyone. Madison has just been fortunate to have depth and power. I think he has let younger kids play, and still end up in mercy rule territory.
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