Also from August 5
Lead stories
9:29 p.m.
Sales tax question winning; Kline losing- August 5, 2008
- The Johnson County public safety sales tax question is passing with voters in early returns.
10:28 p.m.
- Kline loses; sales tax wins
- August 5, 2008
- When the preliminary numbers for advance votes came out, Steve Howe, Republican candidate for Johnson County District Attorney, was certainly pleased.
All stories
- Kline loses; sales tax wins
- August 5, 2008
- When the preliminary numbers for advance votes came out, Steve Howe, Republican candidate for Johnson County District Attorney, was certainly pleased.
- Sales tax question winning; Kline losing
- August 5, 2008
- The Johnson County public safety sales tax question is passing with voters in early returns.
- City’s growth spurs ‘Journey’
- August 5, 2008
- The Rev. Wallace Smith hopes the growth in western Shawnee will trickle over into his new church.
- De Soto board OKs budget, mill levy hike
- Sound system for Mill Valley complex to get $28,000 worth of upgrades
- August 5, 2008 in print edition on B8
- Homeowners in De Soto USD 232 will pay a higher tax rate to the school district this coming year.
- Holliday Sand & Gravel sold to Ash Grove Cement
- August 5, 2008 in print edition on B8
- Holliday Sand & Gravel, which has plants in Shawnee, Edwardsville and Bonner Springs, was purchased Friday by an Overland Park-based cement company.
- Poultry band to end series
- August 5, 2008
- The Shawnee Summer Concert Series will come to a close Friday at West Flanders Park, 55th Street and Nieman Road.
- Clearing the smoke
- Judges-to-be learn ins, outs of barbecue
- August 5, 2008
- Bob Nowak wanted to know what judges were thinking when they scored his team Lost in Sauce’s barbecue, so he became a judge.
- Soccer national finals to be televised
- August 5, 2008
- At noon Saturday, Aug. 9, the 2008 U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships will be featured on Fox Soccer Channel during the two-hour U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships Highlight Show.
- Letter: Follow the money
- August 5, 2008
- To the editor: Regarding the mysterious $392 reimbursement on a City Council member’s expense account: The key words of the Watergate investigation and scandal were, “Follow the Money.”
- Beal: City’s problems follow flight to the suburbs
- August 5, 2008
- The situation seems almost untenable and it’s not going to get any better any time soon without some careful thought and a lot of hard work. Real gasoline prices - that is, with inflation figured in - have risen beyond the levels of the 1973 OPEC oil embargo.
- Editorial: Energy pattern must be broken
- August 5, 2008
- The big thinking of a Texas billionaire might help the nation get moving toward more energy independence.
- Thieves target metal materials
- August 5, 2008
- Several reports of thieves taking metal materials from public areas have occurred in the past week, according to Shawnee police.
- Libraries are open to cool off
- August 5, 2008
- The Johnson County Health Department, in cooperation with the Johnson County Library, encourages residents who need a place to cool down during hot days to visit one of 13 library branches. All of these facilities will be available during normal business hours.
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Point of View
Do you think it is important for Shawnee to be bicycle-friendly?
I think it’s important. I do love and use the paths, but it would be nice to have lanes so we could use bikes to run errands - saving gas!
