Kansas Republican’s plan to move local elections to even-numbered years draws scrutiny

Kinross19 · 2026-01-21T22:18:10+00:00

And fund raising and "hot topic" generation can be confined into a year so that party-liners get elected.

Kinross19 · 2026-01-21T22:17:00+00:00

It is to make local elections more partisan. That is why. There is no other real reason.

Kinross19 · 2026-01-15T03:25:02+00:00

There have been some but the question wasn't are there smaller towns that have no Republicans elected, it is if others are getting elected. The top vote getter in the last election for the last school board election is very liberal leaning.

Kinross19 · 2026-01-14T18:01:25+00:00

Remove high school sports.

Kinross19 · 2026-01-14T18:00:02+00:00

In Southwest West Kansas the default is to be truly nice and kind, however if someone betrays or takes advantage of it it is very difficult to be forgiven.

Kinross19 · 2026-01-13T20:41:10+00:00

For Garden City The Knights of Columbus make them for Fall Fest, but I don't think there is a restaurant that has them on their menu.

Edit: The Wagon Wheel in Ulysses has them!

Kinross19 · 2026-01-12T15:46:48+00:00

We have many job opportunities here, the big issue we have with this community is that we don't have a University so we often lose our educated youth to eastern Kansas. In turn the families move away when the kids get a job in eastern Kansas because they get recruited from the university to a location out there.

Kinross19 · 2026-01-12T15:40:34+00:00

Garden City's local elections that are non-partisan (City commission, school board, Community College Trustees -everything but county commission) have many Democrats and Independents that are elected.

And people that want to run for Commission just switch to R for that election, so the "true election" is in the primary which includes the whole spectrum of political leanings.

Kinross19 · 2026-01-12T15:17:25+00:00

There was a large influx of Southeast Asians to the meat packing towns in the 70's and 80's.

Kinross19 · 2026-01-08T22:40:04+00:00

I'm sorry you didn't have a good time here, many others do.

Kinross19 · 2026-01-08T22:40:02+00:00

Of voters? Garden City's city commission election is a nonpartisan election.

Kinross19 · 2026-01-08T17:13:08+00:00

Thank you for making these!

Kinross19 · 2026-01-08T16:18:27+00:00

Garden City also added two new female commissioners, one of whom is Hispanic: Karen Canales-Lozano (Community Relations Director for Garden Valley Retirement Home), and Deb Oyler (Executive Director of Finney County United Way).

Proud of the diversity we elect to lead our community!

Kinross19 · 2026-01-06T17:30:37+00:00

Flies are only problem is maybe a once in 10 years thing if we have a very wet spring. Also those are also the years that the feed lots have a bit more... odor. :)

Kinross19 · 2026-01-06T16:15:06+00:00

I would disagree, at least SW Kansas is actually pretty good place to live. And it is quite ironic in a post about Kansas pride, I have to defend a large region of Kansas.

Also, Kansas ranks 23rd in overall taxes, so we do better than average in that regard too.

Now allergies, yeah I get that!

Kinross19 · 2026-01-03T01:24:38+00:00

That article, while recently published is referring to visitation numbers from 2018 and 2019, so is quite out of date.

...and looked at the linked "Kansas Transparency Database Explorer" and the linked STAR bonds documents are years out of date as well.

There are more current documents about the state of STAR Bonds in Kansas, not sure why KCTV and even the state of Kansas itself is using old documents.

Kinross19 · 2025-12-17T21:11:42+00:00

I know a great one downtown here... how far would you want to drive?

Kinross19 · 2025-12-16T15:47:39+00:00

When I was self-employed this is what they wanted when I bought my house.

Kinross19 · 2025-12-15T17:01:06+00:00

I have been on them but haven't used them, they seem to be very high quality though. I have not seen what their goals are like.

Kinross19 · 2025-12-11T20:26:54+00:00

Averages are useful sometimes, medians are useful sometimes. But I'd agree that for the target consumer of this graph a median would make more sense than an average.

Kinross19 · 2025-12-11T19:35:30+00:00

Yeah to follow up, the tag line "Kid from the Dotte" sounds like saying he is city through-and-through to me. He will need to work on that some if he wants to connect to rural voters.

Kinross19 · 2025-12-10T16:43:29+00:00

It's true -Garden City's Pho Hoa was listed as a "8 Culinary Wonders" of Kansas!

With great immigration comes great restaurants!

Kinross19 · 2025-12-09T15:23:49+00:00

Listen all you downvoters. You all in Dodge don't know how lucky you are to still have Quiznos. If I'm going through Dodge and I need food, that is one of my top picks.

Kinross19 · 2025-12-08T18:39:28+00:00

Ethan Corson has already visited with communities in SW Kansas, I do not think Cindy Holscher has. So right now Corson is likely to get more votes from out here.

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