At a recent western Kansas meeting to promote wind energy, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., remarked that he’s considering installing a small wind generator at his Topeka home.
“I want to do it,” he said. “But I don’t want to do it stupid.”
If Brownback wants a smart way to do home wind in Kansas, then he should support a net metering law, which allows residential wind users to sell their excess energy back to the utility and makes residential wind much more economically feasible.
Kansas is one of only six states without some kind of residential net metering for wind. And we’re supposed to be a leader in wind power?
As he visited Johnson County last week, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., said that state Sen. Nick Jordan, R-Shawnee, is the best candidate the GOP has fielded against Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Lenexa, who has served the heavily Republican 3rd Congressional District since 1998. Cole’s estimation sets Jordan apart from the likes of fallen Moore challengers Phill Kline (2000), Adam Taff (2002), Kris Kobach (2004) and Chuck Ahner (2006). Jordan’s top issues are energy, taxes and health care, and his campaign is working hard to mention Moore as often as possible in the same breath as Nancy Pelosi and Jimmy Carter.
Good for John McCain and Barack Obama for deciding not to run negative ads on Sept. 11, the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks. (McCain’s campaign said he won’t run any ads at all.) All local and state candidates should do likewise that day, and heed the call by MyGoodDeed.org to make Sept. 11 a national day of voluntary service. Too bad it’s too much to hope for a moratorium on attack ads that would last through Nov. 4.
“I no longer think city and state government officials in Topeka have cornered the market on ways to blow tax money.” — Topeka Capital-Journal’s Ric Anderson, on the lackluster results of the city of Wichita’s investment in Old Cowtown Museum
At a recent western Kansas meeting to promote wind energy, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., remarked that he’s considering installing a small wind generator at his Topeka home.
