Good for Congress for deciding to buy out residents of Treece. Lead, zinc and other chemical contamination from past mining operations made the southeast Kansas town unsafe and isolated. Kudos to the Kansas delegation, particularly Sen. Pat Roberts and Rep. Lynn Jenkins, for pushing for the buyout and for standing up for residents who needed help.
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At the same time, buyout the new downtown albatross Intrust Arena for demolition. Then use that important site for what it was originally planned for … a 500 car parking area for the historic Union Railroad Station to make it usable as a center of America AMTRAK RAILROAD STATION with all the bells and whistles of such a developmement.
As air transportation reduces for a variety of reasons, declining fuel supplies, declining airplane building industries, growth of energy efficient land transportation … the existing rail corridors will become very important for future development in America.
Why don’t current Wichita politicians recognize future trends and keep throwing tax money at the past.
I wasn’t aware that rail transportaion was the way of the future.
BD69: It’s incumbent on us all to keep up on future trends.
JWink, I’d be interested to read any credible research you’ve come across that defines the return of Amtrak as a future trend.
Could this be nothing more than your vocal oposition to the arena?
So Roberts and Jenkins are suddenly “pro-Bailout?”
Financed by a pork-barrel earmark.
The party of “principles,” indeed.
Thank you Senator Brownback, Senator Roberts and Congress Jenkins for introducing legisltation for the Treece buy out. The economic shackles have been removed from these unfortunate families and they can seek relocation to a healthier environment.
Congress Jenkins should be and in Congress, Rep. Jenkins
Thanks to our great ‘publican congresscritters for finally doing what they should have done twenty or more years ago. Every other place in the world has known that lead isn’t a dietary suppliment for some few centuries, but apparently not our congressional delegation. Good to know they finally got educated and scraped up the means to get those people out of Treece!
So the solution for a bunch of Anti government politicians is the Government? Isn’t Treece’s whole problem that for decades theirs wasn’t any government oversight or environmental regulation, the kind of oversight that some like Roberts has opposed his entire career.
Treece is a hell-hole, no doubt about it.
All the land around it is moonscape.
It’s been a case I’ve brought up for 30 years when discussing those who oppose environmental regulation.
It’s flat out shocking to drive out of acres and acres of farm fields and pastures into the area that was downwind of turn-of-the-20th-Century smelters and foundries.
“So let’s build a new up-to-date version in Holcomb! With “clean” coal!”
What the hell.
Pat Roberts is never gonna return to western Kansas. He’s got his wife’s dream home in suburban Maryland and an “official” address in a dusty ol’ apartment above a drug store in Dodge City.
Even that stalwart of courage in the Senate can make that choice.
I’ve wondered where Sam (the Sham) Brownback plans to live when he’s Governor. In Cedar Crest, or in his wife’s house nearby?
We know, from the C Street revelations Brownback loves hangin’ out with the guys.
It’s given him the ability to channel the thoughts of “snowflake embryos.”
BlaiddDrwg69: You asked for credible predictions regarding return of super fast ground liners such as AMTRAK as the wave of the future?
I’m sure it’s somewhere in my files. It certainly makes sense for the reasons I mentioned.
M.Hawk: I don’t think Kansas governors necessarily live in Cedar Crest, the Kansas governor’s mansion in west Topeka. I was told Bill Graves lived in Lenexa. I also wonder if Gov. Mark Parkinson lives in Cedar Crest.
I recall the first Governor Docking, George and his wife, Virginia, lived in a “Governors mansion” of sorts, an old Victorian house, northwest of the Kansas capitol building perhaps five blocks. I suspect Governor John Anderson might have been the first Kansas Governor to live in Cedar Crest after it was donated by an insurance company.
M.H.: I don’t think Kansas governors necessarily live in Cedar Crest, the Kansas governor’s mansion in west Topeka. I was told Bill Graves lived in Lenexa. I also wonder if Gov. Mark Parkinson lives in Cedar Crest.
I recall the first Governor Docking, George and his wife, Virginia, lived in a “Governors mansion” of sorts, an old Victorian house, northwest of the Kansas capitol building perhaps five blocks. I suspect Governor John Anderson might have been the first Kansas Governor to live in Cedar Crest after it was donated by an insurance company.
MonkeyH: I don’t think all Kansas governors necessarily live in Cedar Crest, the official Kansas governor’s mansion.
I was told Bill Graves lived in Lenexa during most of his term as governor because his wife was an attorney in the K.C. area.
I recall when the first Governor Docking, George and wife, Virginia, lived in the previous governors’ mansion, an old Victorian house, located about five or so blocks northwest of the Kansas capitol building.
I suspect Governor John Anderson might have been the first governor to live in Cedar Crest after it was donated to the State of Kansas by an insurance company. It is a kind of grandiose house, in need of considerable repairs when first acquired, sitting on a rather large site in west Topeka. Its back yard looks north high above the Kansas River valley.
I’m pretty sure Finney and Carlin lived at Cedar Crest and whatshisname… the hunter. I doubt if Graves commuted back to Lenexa every night when the Lege was in session. Dunno. Don’t care.
It’s long been talk in Topeka that Sam (the Sham) Brownback married the semi-lovely Mary Stauffer for her trust fund, not to sleep in her bed.