Comments on: Kansans in the spotlight http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/01/kansans-in-the/ The Wichita Eagle Editorial Department Blog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:38:01 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: ksfarmgrrl http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/01/kansans-in-the/#comment-150984 ksfarmgrrl Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:21:29 +0000 http://blogs.varsitykansas.com/weblog/2008/01/weblog200801kansans-in-thehtml/#comment-150984 Hmmmm... Ten non governmental Kansans. That's not too hard! Richard Crowson Thomas Witt Marci Penner Jim Cleland Peg Britton The Collyer Community Alliance All Farmers Market Customers Western Kansas Water Watchers My Roommate (She probably doesnt want her name mentioned, but she is the bravest person I ever met.) Everyone who stopped the coal fired Holcomb plant. Hmmmm… Ten non governmental Kansans. That’s not too hard!

Richard Crowson

Thomas Witt

Marci Penner

Jim Cleland

Peg Britton

The Collyer Community Alliance

All Farmers Market Customers

Western Kansas Water Watchers

My Roommate (She probably doesnt want her name mentioned, but she is the bravest person I ever met.)

Everyone who stopped the coal fired Holcomb plant.

]]> By: Topekan http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/01/kansans-in-the/#comment-150983 Topekan Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:11:47 +0000 http://blogs.varsitykansas.com/weblog/2008/01/weblog200801kansans-in-thehtml/#comment-150983 Think about it, government types are easy, they have to comply with the open records laws. Reporting real news means the Eagle would actually have to have a few relationships and be involved at a much deeper level. I'm not saying reporters are lazy, but maybe they pay too much attention to the low hanging fruit. Think about it, government types are easy, they have to comply with the open records laws. Reporting real news means the Eagle would actually have to have a few relationships and be involved at a much deeper level. I’m not saying reporters are lazy, but maybe they pay too much attention to the low hanging fruit.

]]> By: MonkeyHawk http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/01/kansans-in-the/#comment-150982 MonkeyHawk Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:43:57 +0000 http://blogs.varsitykansas.com/weblog/2008/01/weblog200801kansans-in-thehtml/#comment-150982 As opposed to whom, "annonymous?" -- Clint Bowyer, the NASCAR driver? He's a good kid, drives a car in circles better than most, and comes from a good family. (I grew up with his parents.) But he's sold out to the corporate interests of NASCAR because, in George WMD Bush's America, selling out to corporations is the way to go. Wichita used to be a center of entrepreneurship -- from Clyde Cessna to Coleman to Pizza Hut -- but the community has been reduced to a backwater branch-office town because the cons steadfastly refuse to support independent thinking. So maybe the "liberal" (hah!) Wichita Eagle looks for some new ideas and finds "government bureaucrats" the most innovative thinkers. Can you come up with any other examples of Kansans supporting innovative thinking in any other realm of enterprise? Quit sniping at the Eagle's choices unless you can presnt a list of 10 non-governmental Kansans who've been given even a modicum of encouragment by this far-too-backward state's power structure. Or bitch. You're much better at that, after all. As opposed to whom, “annonymous?” –

Clint Bowyer, the NASCAR driver?

He’s a good kid, drives a car in circles better than most, and comes from a good family. (I grew up with his parents.)

But he’s sold out to the corporate interests of NASCAR because, in George WMD Bush’s America, selling out to corporations is the way to go.

Wichita used to be a center of entrepreneurship — from Clyde Cessna to Coleman to Pizza Hut — but the community has been reduced to a backwater branch-office town because the cons steadfastly refuse to support independent thinking.

So maybe the “liberal” (hah!) Wichita Eagle looks for some new ideas and finds “government bureaucrats” the most innovative thinkers. Can you come up with any other examples of Kansans supporting innovative thinking in any other realm of enterprise?

Quit sniping at the Eagle’s choices unless you can presnt a list of 10 non-governmental Kansans who’ve been given even a modicum of encouragment by this far-too-backward state’s power structure.

Or bitch.

You’re much better at that, after all.

]]> By: anonymous http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/01/kansans-in-the/#comment-150981 anonymous Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:57:47 +0000 http://blogs.varsitykansas.com/weblog/2008/01/weblog200801kansans-in-thehtml/#comment-150981 Given the Eagle Editorial Board's love of big government, it's not surprising that this list is dominated by government bureaucrats. Given the Eagle Editorial Board’s love of big government, it’s not surprising that this list is dominated by government bureaucrats.

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