Sebelius heading to DC
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius will be leaving her post to head to Washington, DC, to be part of President Obama’s cabinet as Secretary of Health & Human Services. This means Lt. Governor Mark Parkinson, formerly a Republican, will become Kansas’ next governor.
Leisure Friday YouTube video
Okay. We’ve been a little too serious here the last few days. Here’s one of my favorite YouTube videos, and I’ll explain why in a comment. David after Dentist
Anniversary celebration
The 150th anniversary of Washington City and Washington County will coincide with the Washington County Rodeo in 2010, in mid-June. The preliminary dates are June 11-13, Friday through Sunday, but confirmations with the livestock companies have to be made before the dates are official. A group of around 30 people met on Thursday night in [...]
Still not on Twitter? Get on board or miss some news
I’m telling you folks. You need to sign up for Twitter. I continue to post things on Twitter that don’t make it onto the blog. So if you’re not following me on Twitter, you’re missing out on some select local news and commentary. It is free and should only take you a couple minutes to [...]
Octuplets
I’m surprised by the negative response the California mom has gotten for having eight babies. I can understand a little that people are negative that she would do that when she is not married and lives with her parents. Fine. I can see that. But a lot of the uproar is that she has 14 [...]
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Marcon Pies is a wonder!
The Kansas Sampler Foundation just released the list of Kansas’ Eight Wonders of Commerce and Marcon Pies of Washington is one of the eight. This likely means we’ll be seeing a few more tourists in town and the business will definitely be receiving increased attention from the media and tourism trade. We’ll have a story [...]
Anointed?
Update: I took down the pictures. I think they were clogging things and this post was pretty much done anyway. Is it just me, or is the main stream media just so obviously biased with President Obama, it gets a little difficult to try to take them seriously? I was checking my webmail today when [...]
Pasture fire north of state lake
I added several photos of a Feb. 20 pasture fire north of the state lake to my Flickr account. I need to get a widget on my page again for Flickr. Click here to see the pictures. The photos were taken by Charlie Brown, who almost managed to get himself trapped in the approaching fire, [...]
Childhood mysteries… solved
Getting older is not always a bad thing. When I was a kid, I was deathly afraid of the dark. I track that fear back to an incident when I was probably four or five years old. I vividly remember laying in bed one night (at the time I shared the bed with my older [...]
