- ’Vegas contingent
- July 21, 2010
- In a letter to the editor (July 14) Mr. Vincent attempts to justify the trip to the Las Vegas shopping center convention by Council member Dawn Kuhn.
- Letter: Stop-and-go commute
- July 14, 2010
- Shawnee’s Public Works Department (or whatever agency controls such things) needs to do something about stoplight timing on Shawnee Mission Parkway, at least in the western portion of the city where I commute daily.
- Letter: Shopping center expert
- July 14, 2010
- To the editor: In Mr. Straub’s letter to the editor (July 7), he laments the spending of tax dollars to send one of our elected representatives to a conference on shopping centers in Las Vegas.
- Letter: Budget Matters
- July 7, 2010
- Shawnee City Council is voting on the 2011 budget. City staff “options” are spending the city’s reserve funds or cutting services. The Council spends more time dreaming up ways to increase taxes rather than reduce spending.
- Letter: Shawnee’s shin dig
- June 23, 2010
- To the editor: In the Ozarks, where I was raised, a party is called a shin dig. My observations of Shawnee’s shin dig: Old Shawnee Days.
- Letter: Respect for the colors
- June 9, 2010
- is past Saturday was the annual Old Shawnee Days parade. As usual, there was a nice turnout and some really great participation by folks marching in the parade.
- Letter: Budget proposals
- June 9, 2010
- To the editor: Now that the elections are over and two of the anti-tax Council members lost (Frank Goode, Kevin Straub), the city has a 6-to-2 pro-tax Council
- Letter: Shawnee applauded
- June 2, 2010
- Not lucky that he died doing what he and I love doing; I mean lucky that he lived in such a supportive community.
- Appreciating home-grown oil
- May 26, 2010
- In light of the recent off-shore oil spill now is a good time to fully appreciate the value of Kansas’ independent oil and gas producers. Kansas oil and gas producers have an excellent record of safety and contribute billions of dollars to the Kansas economy each year.
- Letter: Raise cigarette tax
- May 12, 2010
- It only makes sense for the Kansas Legislature to raise the state’s cigarette tax by $1 per pack.
- Letter to the editor: Sales tax question of interest
- May 5, 2010
- Tri-Land Properties, a Chicago-based company, has proposed the creation of a Community Improvement District (CID) for Ten Quivira Plaza, located at Shawnee Mission Parkway and Quivira Road. This thriving shopping center, anchored by Price Chopper, Naomi’s Hallmark, Westlake Ace Hardware and the new Waxy O’Sheas, has a good occupancy rate.
- Letter: City benefits
- April 28, 2010
- To the editor: As a retiree from the city of Shawnee, I realized real quickly that our city has always done more with less.
- Letter: Strengthening families
- April 21, 2010
- We all want children to be safe and have healthy childhood experiences. However an increasing number of children are exposed to intensive stress – like child abuse and neglect – that can be devastating to child development and have lifelong consequences.
- Letter: Thanks for clean campaign
- April 14, 2010
- To the editor: I want it to be known that my opponent, Lori Barngrover, ran a good, clean campaign.
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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!
