Here is a review of the new “Daily Show” DVD titled “Indecision 2004.”
As the Comedy Central Web site explains, it recounts “one of the most memorable presidential elections of the last five years.”
Posted by Melissa Cooley
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Daily Archives: July 7, 2005
For all you fake news junkies
July 7, 200511:11 p.m.
BTK has only himself to blame
July 7, 200511:07 p.m.
Dennis Rader blamed “demons” for driving him to torture and kill 10 people in an interview with KAKE, Channel 10. And he said someone should have noticed and identified his behavioral problems. Yeah, right. If BTK was as good at compartmentalizing his life as he claims, he was perfectly capable of turning himself in to authorities before he killed again.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
$550,000 more for City Hall security?
July 7, 200511:05 p.m.
Any government’s budget process involves tough choices, and serving public safety should always be a high priority. But Wichita City Council members need to look hard at one item in the city of Wichita’s new budget for 2006: Does City Hall really need $550,000 more for security, including 17 new positions primarily for the entrance and Municipal Court? The question seems especially apt because of reluctance on the part of some at the city to continue funding some school resource officers in partnership with USD 259. Is safeguarding schools really secondary to safeguarding City Hall?
Posted by Rhonda Holman
A day for the Earth
July 7, 200511:04 p.m.
Former Wisconsin governor and senator Gaylord Nelson, who died Sunday at age 89, will be remembered as the father of Earth Day. The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, attracted some 20 million Americans to public expressions of support for environmental protection, and launched such landmark legislation as the Environmental Protection Act and the Clean Water Act.
Nelson once said that “the wealth of the nation is air, water, soil, forest, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat — take that away and all that’s left is a wasteland.”
That’s still true. With Earth Day now a tame corporate event in many communities, including Wichita, it’s important to remember its wilder beginnings as one of the more remarkable and effective grassroots movements in our history.
Posted by Randy Scholfield
Big cities’ loss is Kansas small towns’ gain
July 7, 200511:03 p.m.
One of at least three mentions Kansas gets in the latest Time magazine (along with BTK and the immigrant tuition lawsuit), the article “The Land of the Free!” casts Kansas as the leader in the trend of small towns giving away land, noting the communities doing it even have a coordinated Web site, kansasfreeland.com. These offers are not news in Kansas. What comes as a surprise is their success, at least in towns within commuting distance of larger towns: Marquette, for example (see photo), has given out 82 lots and grown by 123 people in a year, adding 45 new elementary schoolkids in the process. Giving away land still seems an extreme measure unlikely to generate more than modest results, but as Kansas State University professor David Darling is quoted as saying, “The giveaways worked once, after the Civil War. They have potential to work again.”
Posted by Rhonda Holman
London attacks a call to arms, cooperation
July 7, 200512:54 p.m.
The awful images from London today recall the shock felt around the world after Sept. 11, and remind us that terrorists make no exceptions for innocents when they sow death and destruction. Some Europeans will see these attacks as a reason to rethink or scale back the war on terrorism. Instead, the Group of Eight leaders should set aside their growing divisions in the name of fighting this war as one. Terrorism may be a threat the civilized world has to learn to live with, meaning there will never be a “T-Day,” but nations must come together on long-term strategies aimed at capturing terrorists and preventing more attacks.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
