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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...

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Election 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...

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Mayoral 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...

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Where 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...

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Who 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...

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What’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)....

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District 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....

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Abortion 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...

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Sedgwick 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...

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Election 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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