http://blogs.kansas.com/gov Insider dispatches from our writers on politics in Wichita, Topeka and Washington Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:43:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 en hourly 1 http://blogs.kansas.com/gov/2007/01/30/bel-aires-mayor-race-could-be-bitter/ http://blogs.kansas.com/gov/2007/01/30/bel-aires-mayor-race-could-be-bitter/#comments Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:40:00 +0000 Beccy Tanner http://blogs.varsitykansas.com/the_hall_monitor/2007/01/30/bel-aires-mayor-race-could-be-bitter/ Two former mayors — Harold Smith, mayor from 1991 to 1998; and Gary O’Neal, mayor from 1999 to 2005 — have both filed against each other in Bel Aire’s April 3 general election. At issue for the 6,500-resident community is how to market the city’s vacant land and work on reducing the local debt load.. Within the past five years the community has rapidly grown.

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