Kevin Gray It was a nice Thanksgiving as always. This year, we drove to Atchison on Wednesday to bring Diane’s parents back to Paola for the night and to eat turkey and the fixings at our place the next day. The drive up and back also gave me a chance to say hi to my [...]
By Beth Gulley I really love a good holiday—it takes people off the streets and puts them safely in the shopping malls. I guess if we are talking about black Friday, “safely” is the wrong word. There is nothing like getting up at 3:00 a.m. to be trampled to death for a Nintendo Wii. In [...]
By Kevin Gray I wasn’t sure last Friday, when I landed in Atlanta for a layover during my flight to Richmond, Va., if the Thanksgiving rush had begun or if this was just extremely busy Hartfield-Jackson International Airport. But I know the folks around Atlanta will be raking or vacuuming and bagging or burning leaves [...]
By Jeremy Gulley For the fifth year in a row, my older son Israel, my wife and I ran the Gobbler Grind half marathon in Corporate Woods on Sunday. This tradition has become one of my favorites. Every year we make a list of 13 things we are thankful for and, since the half marathon [...]
By Jeremy Gulley This week I received a letter from a fan of our newspapers, who was not too happy with me. The reader used the name Fergie Fergie, and wrote: “Recently read another one of your pompous columns,mostly about yourself and now about the games you play with your own children who you seem [...]
By Kevin Gray As we’ve moved from the season of dumping obscene amounts of money into political advertising none of us wanted to see, why couldn’t our candidates, regardless of party, find ways to raise their campaign awareness in other ways? I continue to grouse about how that money could have been used to help [...]
By Jeremy Gulley A friend of mine recently complained to me about how difficult it was for him to drop his children at school. “It takes forever,” he said, “there were so many cars, I could barely move. It was awful.” Dropping children off at school can be difficult. Cars line up in a seemingly [...]
The death of Spring Hill football player Nathan Stiles has hit this community hard. It seems like everywhere you go, from the schools to the grocery store, people are talking about it. From everything we have heard, Nathan was a great young man. Well liked and respected in Spring Hill. We have heard about him [...]
By Phil Dudley I am writing this guest editorial to communicate to you, the voter, the purposes of Charter Ordinance #13 and the need to approve the creation of the Stormwater Utility. There are very real consequences for voting no and I ask that you consider seriously these consequences. I also hope that you utilize [...]
October 26, 2010 Dear Editor, One of the ways Webster defines misinformation is as information supplied in a suspicious manner. You know, the kind of things that get said in such a way that leads the reader to form incorrect conclusions because of misleading or missing facts that the writer leaves out in order to [...]