Partisan support for nonpartisan offices
Want lower taxes, better jobs, accountability, economic growth, personal freedom and limited government? The Sedgwick County Republican Party says their folks can do it — even in the non-partisan...
View ArticleElection Commissioner predicts 20 percent (again)
In February, Sedgwick County Election Commissioner Bill Gale predicted 20 percent of registered voters would cast a ballot in the primary. Only 13 percent of those registered showed up. Given general...
View ArticleMayoral candidates agree: shopping bags on heads don’t make sense
Mayoral candidates Carl Brewer and Carlos Mayans say those people with shopping bags, tickets and a dinner plate on their heads don’t make much sense to them.“I probably would have used something a...
View ArticleWhere to party with the candidates
Want to see the face of victory or defeat? How about listen to a consolation or victory speech? How about free pretzels and punch? It all happens Tuesday night — when candidates rise and fall. Carl...
View ArticleWho should fill Brewer’s City Council position?
As people sipped Coronas and sodas and mingled among the crowd at Carl Brewer’s campaign party Tuesday night, I was working the scene, trying to find out who’s going to fill Brewer’s shoes in District...
View ArticleWhat’s the Council up to next? Lots of ceremony
Here’s what Tuesday’s City Council meeting looks like: Pray, Pledge of Allegiance and then ceremony (swear in the new mayor), ceremony (swear in a new council member), ceremony (tribute to Bob Martz)....
View ArticleDistrict 6 race about to heat up
City elections are five months away, but already it appears District 6 will have two fairly well-known candidates vying to fill Sharon Fearey’s position, which she will leave because of term limits....
View ArticleAbortion bill on its way to the governor
TOPEKA – A proposal that will require women be allowed to see ultrasounds or hear a fetal heart beat before receiving an abortion is on its way to the governor’s desk. On Tuesday, the Senate pasted...
View ArticleSedgwick County checkbook open for your eyes
Want to peek into Sedgwick County’s checkbook? Now you can. Chief financial officer Chris Chronis this morning unveiled a new feature of the county’s Web site, www.sedgwickcounty.org, that will allow...
View ArticleElection turnout grows to. . .7.8 percent
Does a voter turnout of 7.8 percent sound better than 7.7 percent? Probably not. Nonetheless, the turnout for Tuesday’s primary election in Wichita increased ever so slightly Friday when 75 provisional...
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