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Posted on November 10 at 1:46 p.m.
Please, Please, Please no new parking meters! I am nickel and dimed to death in this town as it is. I sure don't mind feeding pennies into the meters downtown, in fact I often put extra in for someone else to be able to use or leave a couple pennies sitting on the meter for someone else's use. But then there is the parking at the college, and that just about kills me, in fact I generally wind up parking a mile away and walking every day because I simply can't afford to keep quarters on hand all the time. For some I know that seems ridiculous...it's just quarters right. But a week’s worth of parking will buy at least a gallon of milk so my kids can have cereal every morning. A week’s worth of parking buys a little over a gallon of gas so that I can make sure my mom gets to her dr. appts and I can get to her house and help her several times a week. See...ever little bit really counts for many of us.
Zimmerman may not be the one that brought it up to begin with, but clearly he is for it:
“Part of it is additional revenue,” Zimmerman said. “... Part of it is to get our rates more in line with other cities, which also encourages turnover.”
Mr. Zimmerman, we are not a big major city. I don't understand your comment on getting us more in line with other cities. If you are looking to get us more in line with cities that are the same size and population then perhaps you will do away with the meters all together. Otherwise, how about you and the commissioners leave them alone and let us keep paying our pennies for parking. Also, do you think you could do something about more parking for poor college students? JK...just being facetious, but still...The whole idea of paying to park my car makes me crazy...especially when I pay big bucks to attend college here and also pay big bucks to have my car every year...that taxes are ridiculous here!
Posted on November 10 at 1:20 p.m.
I wondered too why the new people are pushing for nurses to have their BSRN. I wondered if it had to do with some contract with the college. I know a lot of hospitals are going to usingo nly BSRN's but I think it is sad for the RN's, LPN's, and CNA's that can't afford more schooling. Does the hospital plan to help them pay for their education? I know that some hospitals and nursing facilities do that. I hope that if this hospital insists on more education or no job they will at least offer to help foot some of the bill. It isn't just the cost of the education that is tough, there is also the cost of lost wages and time with family because when you are in the nursing program you aren't able to work full time and trust me, you do miss a lot of time with family. It is a sacrifice that many are willing to make, and with supportive families it is well worth it in the long run, but I can also see how impossible it may seem to many to make that leap.
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Posted on November 7 at 7:20 a.m.
I worked at Online once as a second income. It was awful and demeaning work, but I swallowed my pride and did it anyway because I needed to support my family and I'd rather work at a crappy job than to apply for SRS benefits. Most of the people working there were in the same boat. No one works at a place like that because they like it. Now if I had known that they hired high school kids I would have sent a couple of my kids there a long time ago. I don't remember seeing high school kids when I worked there, but it was a long time ago.
You know, for goodoleboy and others that don't get this...sometimes it doesn't matter what the job is, you do it because you have to. People got defensive about your comments because people are still raw over loosing their jobs and the lack of others jobs to even apply for right now. If you have a job you better hang on to it and hope like hell you don't wind up in the same boat as these folks. It's scary not having a job and not knowing how your going to pay the bills.
Another thing to think about...with no jobs to offer around here I think we may loose college students in this town because they too have to have a way to pay the rent and take care of themselves...how many moms and dads in this day and age are able to foot the entire bill while their kids spend 4 years in college?
The point is people, think before you open your mouth. Do you care who you might offend or hurt? When you say some of the things you do, it is obvious, no you don't care.
Posted on November 1 at 9:01 a.m.
Shoehorn,
That is exactly what I was tring to get at. There is nothing wrong with questioning and taking a look at policies Everywhere when something has happened somewhere else, and in this case Topeka is kind of close to home. We as citizens should be concerned about policies in our jails, hospitals, nursing homes, gas stations. Instead, many people just let life happen and never question anything. I'm sure all of our officials are doing a good job of making sure things are on the up and up, but it doesn't hurt for people to ask.
Unfortunatley some people take that as accusation and critisism. There is no need for defensiveness here unless something is wrong. But..just as it is a person's right to refuse a warrantless search and seizure of their vehicle, it is also a person's right to defend their place of work. I just wanted to add that because of buiscutboy's comment:
finallyOUT, and others. I'll address your concerns the same way police officers address questions as to the need for them to search your car......"If you ain't got nothing to hide, why do you care"?
I care because it is my right to!
Posted on October 30 at 7:44 p.m.
Ashley,
Thank you for your editorial. I am a student at ESU studying crime and delinquency and I plan to work in the corrections system after graduation. It is important to not take for granted that everything is running just fine. It does not matter what occupation we are talking about, a system of checks and balances is as important as the profession itself. It is also important for citizens to question on occasion as to whether that system of checks and balances is working. Sometimes it takes something like the incident at the Topeka Correctional Facility to remind us that we ought to make sure everything is as it should be on local grounds. That does not mean that we should automatically assume that if there is something wrong in other places it must be going on everywhere. Nor does that mean that when we question whether out own systems are working efficiently someone should jump to the conclusion that someone is pointing an accusatory finger.
Thanks again Ashley for the great editorial. I always enjoy reading both yours and Chris'.
Posted on October 30 at 7:22 p.m.
Chris,
I was wondering what was the deal with throwing candy in a parade. That was the single most important part of a parade when I was a kid and my kids thought the same thing. They stopped liking parades some time ago and I suspect that had something to do with it. I hate to say this for fear of what it may start, but it seems like the fun is being zapped out of everything these days around here.
Posted on October 5 at 8:45 a.m.
countrydog...so you never shop out of town?? I spend a good deal of money in this town as does everyone in my family, and I spend some money out of town. I think its a little harsh of you to repeatedly cut down anyone who spends a dollar outside this town.
As far as Madeylnn's, I spent money there too. When my husband and I got married we rented the tux there. I have sons in high school now and it was my plan to rent tuxes from there over the next few years for the proms that they will attend. It was a nice store but in general a little too pricey for me....thats about how I find a lot of stores here in Emporia.
The problem is bad business management. The economy can't have helped but it really comes down to bad business management and a market that is really pretty seasonal. I can't imagine she was making tons of sells on a daily basis.
What I am 100% sure of is that she is not the only business owner in this town who runs their businesses poorly. I know others who are as crooked as crooked could be, who are worse scoundrels than this woman ever thought about being. I would guess that she maybe didn't intend in the beginning to be dishonest, business is tough and things can get out of hand. Pretty soon you have an avalanche. But there are others that are down right dishonest and don't care who they are hurting and it has gone on for years.
I would caution every person to think before throwing someone out to the wolves...it could be you someday.
Posted on October 2 at 8:43 a.m.
I realize everyone wants to point the finger at Obama and that I'll get tomatoes thrown at me for saying this, but he doesn't want frivolous spending. He may want to hand out unrealistically amounts of money in some cases and too little in others, but I hardly think he wants money spent recklessly. More money should go to education and school improvements. That being said, it is completely asinine to spend money on extras when school have been crying for years (and rightly so) that teachers are underpaid, there aren't enough teachers, there are too few supplies...just last year I was told by one of my sons teachers that there were not enough social studies books for each kid she taught so in order for him to bring one home he had to check one out, the school supply list that parents have to spend money on each year (and more and more items are becoming "continuous" ones). The money obviously should be spent on the classrooms themselves, new textbooks, a supply of paper for the copiers, and Kleenex (one thing that really irks me every year). I sure don't mind doing my part to provide my child and even a few other children supplies but I feel like its getting excessive. Furthermore, I shouldn't have to worry that my child might not have a textbook that he can bring home to do his homework.
One other posters said exactly what I was thinking when I first saw the poll about the football field. If I was on the BOE and I knew that others in my town such as the court personnel where getting their salaries cut, I'd be ashamed of myself for even thinking about frivolous items such as unnecessary football fields.
Posted on September 15 at 7:17 a.m.
It's frustrating to me that I try to teach my kids to respect those in authority, and to me our President is a person in authority, and other ADULTS out there do not show respect. I don't teach my kids to be clones of everyone else, they need to have their own thoughts and opinions, but it's kind of hard for them to do that when people are making it impossible for them to. When you start throwing temper tantrums about the President talking to our kids...what are you really teaching them? Their opinion really doesn't count, just the opinions of adults count! The kids in high school should at the very least be able to make a judement call for themselves without their parents telling them what to think and shielding them from every little thing. After all, do we really want them to be dependent on us forever?
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Posted on November 14 at 1:39 p.m.
I have been following this story and hoping to hear some good news. To the family, I am sorry you are going through this. It is unfair to not know what has happened to a person you care about. If there is anything that I can do to help with a search, please let me know. I will help where I can. I don't know any of you or Brian but I have a family and some of them have made mistakes of their own. Some of them I have had to tell to stay away when their own lives were such a mess and the people they associated with were not good. However, not one time did I stop worrying about them and when they were ready to change their lives I was right there to support them. If something had happened to them, even during the time they were leading troubled lives, I would have been scared for them, upset and hurt, and would have done anything I could to get them home safe. I don't understand the people on here being so judgemental. Tell me you don't all have skeletons in your closet or that someone in your life doesn't. Hell, I would even have enough compassion for my ex husband and the nasty person he married to want them to be safe. Yes, I checked out the Kasper site to see what people were so afraid of...because that is what it is, it is fear when people are so nasty and bitter. As far as I could tell he isn't a dangerous man, he stole, and it wasn't even armed robbery. No weapons were involved. Theft is a crime and should be punished and it sounds as if this man has been punished. I stole when I was a kid in jr. high school, are you going to stone me and if something happens to me would you say the awful things about me that has been said here? And before someone calls me on it...I realize the crime he committed was a bit more than stealing a pack of cigarettes at a grocery store, but because he did something wrong it is no reason to turn our backs on a citizen of OUR community. If any of you do something wrong or your kids do something wrong or your brother does are you going to be so hateful if something happens to them? When I see posts like those I have seen here I am ashamed to be a part of this community.
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