Category Archives: Local

And While I’m At It

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Maybe today is a bad day to be a Kansan.  Maybe I’m just grumpy, in general, although I feel pretty good about stuff, also in general.  The last post reminded me of this, however, which further soured my mood. Kansans … Continue reading →

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Everyone tell Zack how awesome he is.

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

Cause he is. Just ran his first official half-marathon today: 1:51:52. Represent!

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Un muchacho debajo de una mesa!

Posted on January 23, 2011 by

Just started Spanish 1, Lesson 1 from Rosetta Stone. I totally have gatos, perros, and caballos down. Anybody else used this thing? How did it work out for you?

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Because It’s Late, and I’m Feeling Frisky

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

I’ve not got a whole lot of history or context to this bit of opinion, but that’s what makes it “Real Murcan,” ain’t it?  From kansas.com on Friday: The Wichita school district plans to buy property at the northwest corner … Continue reading →

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Congrats

Posted on August 5, 2010 by

Via 826 Valencia: Everson Perez, Nathan Jillson Memorial Scholarship Recipient Everson goes to Mission High School, and this year, he has also enrolled at Build San Francisco, a program that offers classes for aspiring young architects. When not designing future … Continue reading →

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It’s hard to bat with this hood on…

Posted on July 17, 2010 by

For those of you who haven’t heard this already, here’s a pretty darned interesting story that you might not have known about before: Monrovians vs. The Klan Turns out, in the 1920s, an all-African-American baseball team in Wichita played a … Continue reading →

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Yay, public radio

Posted on June 15, 2010 by

Lest you think I’ve just been sitting around playing Halo or something while I’ve been ignoring you… BEHOLD. (This is what I did for about 35 hours over the weekend.)

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Cato Comes to Town

Posted on February 5, 2010 by

I just found this on Kansas.com–it was too long to tweet, so here you go. Apparently some high-falutin’ urban planner from the Cato Institute came to the city and talked a little smack on the downtown development.  Fine.   There’s plenty … Continue reading →

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Into the Wingnuts’ den

Posted on January 15, 2010 by

Planning on going to the KS-04 Republican Congressional debate tonight at the Bank of America building here in Wichita. Can’t imagine it’ll be boring. In a perfect world, we’d liveblog it, so check in here at 7:00 pm CST to … Continue reading →

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A Little Bit of Local Flavor

Posted on January 11, 2010 by

This from the WSJ: In a pretrial hearing Friday, Kansas Judge Warren Wilbert said he might allow the defense to present evidence that Mr. Roeder acted in defense of others — in this case, fetuses — whom he believed to … Continue reading →

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