I think Wichita's new AAA baseball team should be named after our somewhat lesser-known local industries:
The Latex Balloons
The Salad Dressing Refiners
The Sodium Chlorites
The Automotive Maintenance Fluids
The Blast Resistant Buildings
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Aerospace Engineer. SPEEA Rep. Former USD259 BOE, 2yrs pre-pandemic, 2yrs in the thick of it. Champion of strong public schools. CoW D1 DAB pronoun.is/he
Wichita, KSJoined April 2012
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"In Valley Center, Superintendent Dr. Cory Gibson says that transfer of funds has more than doubled over the last decade as costs and the number of students in special education programming have increased, which hurts all Kansas students. "
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Heckin yeah, with my 15 year anniversary gift, I can now gamify walking to meetings at other buildings at Spirit.
2 miles per hour, baby!
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ARDMORE, Okla. - An investigation is underway at the Carter County Detention Center after a surveillance camera was found in a light fixture in an attorney client room.
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The smashers won't stop gassing me up: upcomer.com/former-smash-c
Also, thank you for reminding everyone about when I beat . Almost beat Machiavelli too, at my one & only national (Paragon LA).
Who knows tho, maybe I'll travel again & catch y'all at an event next summer :)
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BREAKING: The Kansas Board of Education has voted to recommend that all public schools in the state eliminate Native American mascots and imagery within five years. The vote was 7-1-2. Michelle Dombrosky voted no. Ben Jones and Jean Clifford abstained. #ksed
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This afternoon district Chief Information Officer Rob Dickson is hosting CIOs from local industry to learn more about how the district is using technology to help students become future ready.
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In the last 10 years, the number of Kansas students receiving special education services has risen 18%. This increase is largely thanks to identification in early childhood. #FullyFundSped
Read our SPED Funding report here: bit.ly/3WICyZE
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Solidarity! ✊
Hundreds of nurses at Wichita’s St. Francis hospital vote to unionize
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Today, Kansas educators & parents will host a press conference calling for the full funding of special education.
The press brief will take place at 3 p.m. in the north wing of the Kansas Statehouse and will be live on our Facebook page.
Read more here:bit.ly/3DWmlHJ
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Fuck cancer.
That is all for tonight.
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'Great danger': Couple sentenced in submarine secrets case
Spontaneous combustion blamed for Park City recycling center fire; damage estimate is $1M kansas.com/news/local/art
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School lunches cost our family of one elementary school child $450 a year.
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[Colorado] voters appear to pass Proposition FF, which provides free school meals to all public school students
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The State of Board of Education races aren’t getting the attention they need and the bad guys are taking it over. #ksleg
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Spirit AeroSystems coworkers: Today, I applied for the Good Neighbor Fund Board of Directors. This is the employee giving fund that supports both United Way of the Plains and selected non-United Way charities.
Please consider voting for me if I am downselected for the ballot.
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America, 2022: wherein slavery is *almost* but not quite rejected by popular vote. 🫤
Slavery rejected in some, not all, states where on ballot
...we should probably prepare the state budget for costly losses in court and more remedial classes for our new State AG. 😬
Kris Kobach squeaks to a political comeback in election as Kansas attorney general
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Just a little preemptive clean up of the timeline on the ol bird app
The election results here in South Central Kansas? A mixed bag. Such is life in the Great Plains.
Only 45% of registered voters here voted, and not every eligible person is registered. I don't know if we can call that a functioning democracy, really.
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"Flying Spaghetti Monster" - when conservatives held a majority on the KS SBOE :-/
"Four seats on the Kansas State Board of Education were won by conservative candidates who want to restrict how race and social-emotional learning are taught in schools."
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For inquiring minds this is the song Commerce staffer Ryan Wills wrote for Panasonic. #ksleg
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Huelskamp went private (can't stand the heat?), but here's a screenshot of what he posted earlier today.
So hateful and so hurtful. Kansans have always deserved better.
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What is to be learned by Kansans from all this is that if you EVER care enough about your community to fundraise for local causes in ANY way, the Kansas Republican Party will stop at nothing to tear you and your family apart.
Decent people I know have left the Republican Party.
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At Spirit AeroSystems, engineers *still* remember the Larry Lawson layoffs, and it's been almost a whole-ass decade.
There's no good way to do layoffs but there's plenty of bad ways.
Twitter’s case study of how not to lay people off
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WSU professor Danette Baker has had a major medical incident, according to her spouse, Ed Baker. She's in an induced coma for now. She will be missed dearly by our whole city.
Wichita Shakespeare Company was fortunate to have her in Hamlet from 2015:
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With all precincts reporting, voters resoundingly favor school election change
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“Listen to the students that have come and spoken here. There is yet to be a single student come and tell you that this policy is needed and that it protects them, only ones that have showed up and said ‘You will harm the students,’”
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If pundits are right about a GOP sweep, there will be much talk about Democrats’ messaging. But it’s hard to see how an electorate opting for election deniers, frauds like Vance and Lake, the kitty litter guy and Walker is amenable to messaging. Maybe we’re just a broken country.
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The Gardner Edgerton school board tonight prohibited transgender students from using the restrooms, or playing on the sports teams, that align with their gender identity:
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"Blankley, you raised money for both Alzheimer's research and actual orphans at the children's home doing a style of wildly popular live performance. How dare you do that" - Kansas Republicans, I guess
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Drag is hella cool and getting called out by verified weirdo Huelskamp should be a career goal for anyone in Kansas 😂 twitter.com/CongHuelskamp/
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STOP THE COUNT
I DEMAND A RECOUNT
FULL FRENETIC AUDIT
FOR THE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE CONTEST
Sneak a Peek at Some Stars Featured in the 2022 Sexiest Man Alive Issue
War hero Caius Marcius Coriolanus is pressured by his mother into running for political office. He really doesn't like the plebiscite *or* the concept of popular rule. It...doesn't exactly end well for Coriolanus.
Wikipedia (Spoiler Alert!):
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It's Election Day in the United States, and so it's a great time to rewatch our production of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" from 2009.
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