Congratulations to Wichita for landing its fourth All-America City award on Friday from the National Civic League. Going into last week’s finals of the annual contest, which had 143 entries, it was hard to imagine that the 31 other finalist cities had success stories as impressive as the three in Wichita’s 2009 bid: the Opportunity Drive campus on East 21st Street, Visioneering Wichita and Mennonite Housing Rehabilitation Services. The honor entitles the city to more than bragging rights. Especially amid the sharp decline in employment at the city’s aviation manufacturers, the All-America City title signals to business site-selection teams and others that Wichita isn’t standing still but actively working to improve itself and the lives of its citizens and youths.
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The “All America City Award” is often mis-interpreted by observors. It generally honors a city for making an effort to initiate a needed improvement to its organizational structure or physical facilities/infrastructure.
It might reflect a municipality that is in the beginning stages of turning things around as is hopefully the case in Wichita.
“JWink” observes –
“The “All America City Award”…generally honors a city for making an effort to initiate a needed improvement to its organizational structure or physical facilities/infrastructure.”
If that’s true, showing up on the list four times doesn’t seem to say much about the previous efforts to initiate needed improvement.
Kind of a left-handed compliment, like holding the record for the most “Comeback of the Year” awards.
In the 1920s, Dallas and Wichita had pretty much the same populations, pretty much the same economic base, pretty much the potential.
I’m not a big fan of what Dallas has become, but it’s pretty obvious the dynamics of the two cities have played out differently.
Wichita is not the largest city in Kansas; Wichita is the biggest small town in the state.
Much good stuff about small towns applies here. But there’s a bunch of Mayberry-think that hinders its growth and progress.
I used to enjoy telling people from out of state the tallest building in Kansas was a Holliday Inn.
That’s changed since then, of course, but the mental image sticks with me.
Wichita sucks. Ask anybody who was born here.
I used to enjoy telling people from out of state the tallest building in Kansas was a Holliday Inn.
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Tallest building in Mississippi is a grain elevator on the Pascagoula River.
It ain’t as tall as our Holiday Inn.
Wichita sucks. Ask anybody who was born here.-BlueJay
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You’ve never lived in Western Kansas, have you?
No doubt the win can be attributed to Mayor Brewer’s Thespian skills. :)
“Wichita isn’t standing still but actively working to improve itself and the lives of its citizens and youths”
AGAINST the will of a large number of the local citizenry who cannot be bothered to part with a nickel.
Would someone get BlueJay a tissue to soak up his tears.
I have a friend that I met when I was a VFW Commander. He’s Vietnamese. Came over in ‘75, settled in Wichita. Couldn’t speak English, actually illiterate in two languages, his and ours. He left home on a small boat with about a hundred other people.
He’s got his education, a masters degree in business. Married, raised a family. Sucessfull businessman in real estate. Multi-millionaire.
He did all this while BlueJay was trying to get his Lawnboy to start.
“HLP” –
How many languages is the boy literate in?
(Albeit, I bet he’s good at “pulling the rope” on the lawn boy.)
BlueJay
Posted June 23, 2009 at 9:49 am | Permalink
“Wichita isn’t standing still but actively working to improve itself and the lives of its citizens and youths”
AGAINST the will of a large number of the local citizenry who cannot be bothered to part with a nickel.
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Some people always have their hand out.
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BlueJay
Posted June 23, 2009 at 9:49 am | Permalink
“Wichita isn’t standing still but actively working to improve itself and the lives of its citizens and youths”
AGAINST the will of a large number of the local citizenry who cannot be bothered to part with a nickel.
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Stop by the house, I’ll give you a nickel.
Regular
Posted June 23, 2009 at 11:42 am | Permalink
Stop by the house, I’ll give you a nickel.
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That won’t work. You gotta meet him in the parking lot at Dillons.
That won’t work. You gotta meet him in the parking lot at Dillons.
-XXX
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LMFAO!
ANTI
LMFAO!
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Heh, heh, heh!
And then there IS the trash that Wichita attracts.
See above.
BlueJay
Posted June 23, 2009 at 12:08 pm | Permalink
And then there IS the trash that Wichita attracts.
See above.
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Bloggers, let’s have a vote.
Who’s the trash?
Well ya got my vote XXX.
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XXX
Posted June 23, 2009 at 12:51 pm | Permalink
BlueJay
Posted June 23, 2009 at 12:08 pm | Permalink
And then there IS the trash that Wichita attracts.
See above.
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Bloggers, let’s have a vote.
Who’s the trash?
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The French say:
détritus de geai bleu
Bloggers, let’s have a vote.
Who’s the trash?
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The squawking bird that is BlueJay.
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ANTI
Posted June 23, 2009 at 1:01 pm | Permalink
Bloggers, let’s have a vote.
Who’s the trash?
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The squawking bird that is BlueJay.
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BlueJay avoids the curb on trash pick up day.
BlueJay
Posted June 23, 2009 at 9:49 am | Permalink
“Wichita isn’t standing still but actively working to improve itself and the lives of its citizens and youths”
AGAINST the will of a large number of the local citizenry who cannot be bothered to part with a nickel.
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Pull those nickels out of your own pocket Jr. Keep your hands out of my money. Which would you rather see – a city full of BlueJays or a city full of worker bees? Which city would survive?
“Keep your hands out of my money.”
That’s what a lot of people here in doo dah said when the idea to build the big ditch was proposed.
Before my time. but they probably had much the same reaction to flouridated water, indoor plumbing, fire…
At least Wichita will no longer be the late-term abortion capital of the world. Boulder, CO will now take that bow for the abortion lobby, it seems.
I wonder if criminal abortionist quack Warren Hern wants Tiller’s incinerator. He may need it.
He’s the abortionist quack who says he does abortions so fast, he doesn’t have time to wash his hands between victims.
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“Most professionals in the field feel that it is not advisable for patients to view the products of conception, to be told the sex of the fetus, or to be informed of a multiple pregnancy.”
. . . abortionist quack Warren Hern in “Abortion Practice” J.B. Lippincott Company, 1984
XXX
Posted June 23, 2009 at 12:51 pm | Permalink
BlueJay
Posted June 23, 2009 at 12:08 pm | Permalink
And then there IS the trash that Wichita attracts.
See above.
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Bloggers, let’s have a vote.
Who’s the trash?
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Blue Jay
Blue Jays have strong black bills used for cracking nuts, and acorns and for eating corn, grains and seeds, although they also eat insects such as beetles, grasshoppers, and caterpillars.
Blue Jays can make a large variety of sounds, and individuals may vary perceptibly in their calling style. Like other corvids, they may learn to mimic human speech. Blue Jays can also copy the cries of local hawks so well that it is sometimes difficult to tell which it is.
Their voice is typical of most jays in being varied, but the most commonly recognized sound is the alarm call, which is a loud, almost gull-like scream.
There is also a high-pitched jayer-jayer call that increases in speed as the bird becomes more agitated.
An All-America City again
B F D
Did you expect Wichita to be an All-Marxist City?
A Blue Jay
when eating will hold a seed or nut in its feet and pecks it open with its bill.
The male Blue Jay feeds the female while she sits on the eggs. When young Blue Jays hatch, both parents feed them. (Right! Blue Jays are raised by both parents who are responsible enough to feed their own kids!)
Blue Jays do not like to share. They will chase other birds away from food sources, and they will carry food off and hide it. The Blue Jays diet consist of a variety of foods. These birds are quick to take advantage of bird feeders. They like free food wherever they can find it.
Their winter diet consist mostly of vegetable matter, acorns, beechnuts, seeds and berries.
They are also known to rob nests of eggs and baby birds.
Blue Jays also scavenge on unattended picnic items, stealing food whenever they can find it. They also love to go through garbage cans.
If you get nearby while they are feeding, you may hear their harsh scolding calls.
That’s some fine new company you got yourself there XXX.
My sympathies.
XXX loves Wichita so much he doesn’t even live here.
BJ, why don’t you call XXX out for a meet-up?
How appropriate for this topic to become a bash BJ event!
“BJ, why don’t you call XXX out for a meet-up?”
Why don’t you?
Well BJ, unlike you, I have no need to meet people I disagree with on a blog.
You on the otherhand, resort to calling for meetings whenever you get your tail-end kicked up into your larynx.
I think you have me confused with Hank.
Easy enough to do.
Blue Jay
if it sucks so much why are you still here?