The mantra of the Republican party has been 'lower taxes and less government,'" State Senator Mike Hall told Putnam Rotarians June 1, "and everybody campaigns on that. A veteran of the West Virginia Legislature since 1994, and Senator from District 4 (Jackson, Mason, Putnam, part of Roane) since 2006, Hall has recently been named minority leader - "a new office up the hall."
It was about this time of year, many years ago, that John Chambers shocked us with his Christmas greeting. John, longtime state editor here, was a devout Christian and one of the least cynical journalists I have ever known.
We have been had. That anecdote I reprinted here last week -- the one about some Marines in Augusta, Ga., stopping a thief running from a Best Buy store -- wasn't 100 percent legit.
I am a government financial officer's worst nightmare -- a journalist with a spreadsheet program on his computer. I can dig into any governmental budget and sort the numbers and massage them with mathematical operations that would horrify anyone who had ever taken an accounting class.
The front page of last Friday's newspaper quoted a local government official as saying a certain action "smacks of politics. If you remember the events of last Thursday, you might think that was someone commenting on the appointment of Shawnee County Commissioner Vic Miller to the Topeka Municipal Court judgeship by interim city manager Dan Stanley.
Who said, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country?" A culturally literate American will answer, "Nathan Hale. Really, though, there is no hard evidence that Nathan Hale actually said those words as he was about to be hung by the British in 1776 as a spy.
I was happy to see Alf Landon added last week to that new list of 25 most influential Kansans. Landon is probably best known as the man who ran for president in 1936 and was badly beaten by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. But Topekans remember him fondly as a man who gave the rest of the country an image of a Topekan as a person of intelligence and dignity.
As usual, last week's column on proper speaking drew more reaction from readers than any comments I make on issues involving local government and community activities. So, believing in the adage "give the customers what they want," I submit the following: - Two people responded to last week's column about mispronounced words with the same concern. Regular contributor Marijo Mastroianni wrote: "People here say the word 'ornery' like 'onry.' That is not how it is pronounced! It is pronounced 'or ner y.' There is an 'R' in the word.
Today I'm going to tell people who hate property tax where to go. They should consider moving to New Cambria, 10 miles east of Salina, where the total property tax rate is the lowest of any city in Kansas -- 86.196 mills.
Forty-five years ago today, many of you were cowering in a basement, an interior hallway or maybe even a bathtub from an F5 tornado that ripped through Topeka. You are the people Dave Sterbenz really likes.
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