I also hope that positive thoughtful blogging also contributes to public discussion of local issues right here in Wichita, river city, as well as Kansas, USA.

In Wichita, we have very few, if any, local government politicians who have the people skills, political abilities, knowledge of local issues, etc. to stand up with hands on their hips before an audience of TAX-PAYING CITIZENS to receive questions and comments and offer replies in an intellectually acceptable manner.

Here in Wichita, most of our local highly paid but underqualified politicians prefer to hide behind a dias in their commission/council chambers … attempting to appear as judges … to avoid a dialogue with the citizens who elected them.

So, the only way the public can hope to talk to elected representatives is through this relatively new phenomena of “blogging” and hope that some of the information reaches ears of our elected politicians.