Let's check out our school systems and how they rank. Monday, on the Today Show, the smart real estate lady with grey hair (not that perky young chick Jean Chatsky who never really says anything--chatsky--how aptly named) anyway, the real estate lady said that home sellers lie and always claim their home is in "the best school district". And that real estate agents lie too. Imagine that.
But now there are websites to verify. They include: www.homefair.com and www.greatschools.net.
I'm on vacation playing Auntie Mame with my nieces, going to BuildABear, so perhaps someone else can look up and compare all the districts here in Johnson County--and report back here. Shawnee Mission, Olathe, Desoto. What have I missed? Monticello? Is that a district? (Hey, I only have dogs, and I live across from a fine Catholic grade school--that is MY selling strategy!) Oh yes: ladidah: Blue Valley! I really want to see numbers for SM v. BV. BEFORE the Ks. Legislature whacks the budget.
That's what I want for Christmas! A research elf!
So thank you, elf. And may you get what you want for Christmas or Chanukkah, too.
I leave you with this:
Monday on TV they showed lighting the first candle in WDC on the federal menorrah. Gee, I didn't know we had one. Question, does the White House now also have a mezuzzah on the doorpost? I have loved mezuzzahs since my high school friend, Judy Levine, explained hers, and why she had to touch it before entering her house.
I love the idea of touching the embedded scriptures, making contact with spirit, when entering a home. It sets an intention. But I'm just sayin...I must have missed some news.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Who cares if Bailout Bob Regnier is a taxpayer pickpocket?
I care. And so should the voters. Because not only is Bob Regnier el presidente for life and chairman potentate and Grand Poobah of Bank of Blue Valley (his Daddy's money.) The first local bank to take the bailout. $21.75 million of free money, or as Bob said, "That's pretty cheap capital."
And not only is Bob Regnier is chairman of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. And not only was Bob Regnier the mastermind behind the horribly deceptive ballot wording on the misguided and overreaching Research Triangle Vote here in JoCo Nov. 4.
He's also now scheming to do a second taxpayer bailout of Union Station--in 2009!!!
You see, Bob loves spending Other People's Money. He can't manage his way out of a mayonnaise jar. But he loves the accolades, he loves being praised by the kissup wannabe leaders who are publishers or who write editorials for the Star and the Sun.
It's like Watergate. Follow the money. Whatever Bob Regnier is for, he always wants the taxpayer to finance making him the hero.
Beware. Union Station Bailout II is coming. And Bob is driving the getaway car.
And not only is Bob Regnier is chairman of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. And not only was Bob Regnier the mastermind behind the horribly deceptive ballot wording on the misguided and overreaching Research Triangle Vote here in JoCo Nov. 4.
He's also now scheming to do a second taxpayer bailout of Union Station--in 2009!!!
You see, Bob loves spending Other People's Money. He can't manage his way out of a mayonnaise jar. But he loves the accolades, he loves being praised by the kissup wannabe leaders who are publishers or who write editorials for the Star and the Sun.
It's like Watergate. Follow the money. Whatever Bob Regnier is for, he always wants the taxpayer to finance making him the hero.
Beware. Union Station Bailout II is coming. And Bob is driving the getaway car.
Did Bailout Bob Regnier profiteer last Xmas, before we gave him a tax subsidy this year?
Are we rewarding blowhards for bad management practices? I want someone to check out Bank of Blue Valley, and find out if in 2007, Bailout Bob Regnier got a big fat bonus. Since he was the first KC area banker to accept a bailout this month, a whopping $21.75 million.
I'm here in Denver this week, reading the Denver Post (what a relief!) and they have an AP story that the bankers who took bailouts this month were the same fatcats who took $1.6 billion in bonusses from their struggling banks in Dec. '07.
So please, someone who can check (ie a customer? Mark Davis the banking reporter for the Star?, Chuck Kurtz at the Sun?) please find out about Bailout Bob, and post it here, please.
I phoned Mark Davis last week, and asked him to do a followup because in November, Bailout Bob was supposedly putting $6 million of Daddy's money, and his buddies, (or perhaps Daddy's money disguised as his buddie's infusion of cash) into Bank of Blue Valley to shore it up, since it has a D Minus credit rating. Then I learned that the $6 million was "on hold". I heard that, the same week they took the $21.75 million federal taxpayer-subsidized bailout.
Hmmmm. Do ya think they would cancel their own mini-bailout when they got ours?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I'm here in Denver this week, reading the Denver Post (what a relief!) and they have an AP story that the bankers who took bailouts this month were the same fatcats who took $1.6 billion in bonusses from their struggling banks in Dec. '07.
So please, someone who can check (ie a customer? Mark Davis the banking reporter for the Star?, Chuck Kurtz at the Sun?) please find out about Bailout Bob, and post it here, please.
I phoned Mark Davis last week, and asked him to do a followup because in November, Bailout Bob was supposedly putting $6 million of Daddy's money, and his buddies, (or perhaps Daddy's money disguised as his buddie's infusion of cash) into Bank of Blue Valley to shore it up, since it has a D Minus credit rating. Then I learned that the $6 million was "on hold". I heard that, the same week they took the $21.75 million federal taxpayer-subsidized bailout.
Hmmmm. Do ya think they would cancel their own mini-bailout when they got ours?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Revenge of the Big Three.
God, I love smart satire. Whoever did this, they're geniusses who even trademarked it. Or pretended to!
Excuse the language, and enjoy.
tt
In case you cannot read it:
The headline reads:
You wouldn't buy our shitty cars.
So we'll be taking your money anyway.
The bailout. Coming this January.
You probably thought it was smart to buy a foreign import of superior quality, with better mileage and resale value. Maybe you even thought that years of market share loss might prod us into rethinking our 'process' and redesigning our products with better quality in mind. But you forgot one thing. We spend a shitload of money on lobbyists. So now you're out $25 billion PLUS the cost of your Subaru. Maybe next time you'll buy American, like a real man. Either way, we're cool.
GM Chrysler Ford.
"We're the Big Three. We Don't Need to Compete. TM
Saturday, December 13, 2008
What's the difference between Gov. Blago and Annabeth Surbaugh?
Oh, I think she's got about 40 pounds on him.
Other than that, Pay for Play in Johnson County has been going on for years. It's just more genteel.
Developers got the zoning they wanted, because they --and their attorneys--often at Polsinelli--including John Peterson and Larry Winn--raised the money for their campaigns to keep getting them re-elected.
And now, with the passage of the JoCo Research Triangle, just watch. New players, new payers!! Especially when the Kansas Legislature is carving a billion dollars out of the budget. KU and KState psychophants will be really puckering up to the Gang of Seven.
Annabeth Surbaugh used to call herself an interior decorator. But she has no clients. Did you ever see one of her homemade contemporary paintings on canvas over cardboard, that she would frame in a Rococo Baroque Hobby Lobby frame and donate to a local charity auction? No comment needed.
So her job as Chairman of the BOCC is her sole support. Now she has gotten herself appointed to the Research Triangle Advisory Board. In Chicago, we would call that Pay for Play. Queen Annabeth led the fight to get a deliberately misleading 41st position on the November ballot. Research Triangle will enrich her biggest campaign supporters, including quite possibly Bailout Bob Regnier. And there is no doubt about it, this three-partition pork barrel will ensure that alumni and friends will have to write checks in 2 years to Annabeth AND to fellow Triangle Advisory Board member Ed Eilert when he challenges her for County Chairman of the BOCC.
In Chicago, people like Obama are "appalled" to learn that there is a quid pro quo system. It's shock and awe time under the L. Where have these people been? Under a rock? Under Iraq?
Whereas, here in JoCo, or "cupcake land" as Richard Rhodes so elegantly put it in the Atlantic Monthly over 20 years ago, it's just...business as usual, good government/hypocrit style.
So I guess one might say the difference between Chicago and JoCo, is here, they will have to serve up TWO scoops of cash!
With rare exceptions, your elected officials are puppets for their supporters, endorsed by the KC Star and Steve Rose. Because Yael Abouhalkah, Barb Shelley and Steve Rose are unelectable. But in their titular positions, they LOVE the adulation and ass-kissing that comes from being courted. Newspapers are generally obsolete, yet elected officials fawn over them at endorsement time.
So as you watch Governor Blago go down, just remember, here in JoCo we do the same thing. Just nicer.
Other than that, Pay for Play in Johnson County has been going on for years. It's just more genteel.
Developers got the zoning they wanted, because they --and their attorneys--often at Polsinelli--including John Peterson and Larry Winn--raised the money for their campaigns to keep getting them re-elected.
And now, with the passage of the JoCo Research Triangle, just watch. New players, new payers!! Especially when the Kansas Legislature is carving a billion dollars out of the budget. KU and KState psychophants will be really puckering up to the Gang of Seven.
Annabeth Surbaugh used to call herself an interior decorator. But she has no clients. Did you ever see one of her homemade contemporary paintings on canvas over cardboard, that she would frame in a Rococo Baroque Hobby Lobby frame and donate to a local charity auction? No comment needed.
So her job as Chairman of the BOCC is her sole support. Now she has gotten herself appointed to the Research Triangle Advisory Board. In Chicago, we would call that Pay for Play. Queen Annabeth led the fight to get a deliberately misleading 41st position on the November ballot. Research Triangle will enrich her biggest campaign supporters, including quite possibly Bailout Bob Regnier. And there is no doubt about it, this three-partition pork barrel will ensure that alumni and friends will have to write checks in 2 years to Annabeth AND to fellow Triangle Advisory Board member Ed Eilert when he challenges her for County Chairman of the BOCC.
In Chicago, people like Obama are "appalled" to learn that there is a quid pro quo system. It's shock and awe time under the L. Where have these people been? Under a rock? Under Iraq?
Whereas, here in JoCo, or "cupcake land" as Richard Rhodes so elegantly put it in the Atlantic Monthly over 20 years ago, it's just...business as usual, good government/hypocrit style.
So I guess one might say the difference between Chicago and JoCo, is here, they will have to serve up TWO scoops of cash!
With rare exceptions, your elected officials are puppets for their supporters, endorsed by the KC Star and Steve Rose. Because Yael Abouhalkah, Barb Shelley and Steve Rose are unelectable. But in their titular positions, they LOVE the adulation and ass-kissing that comes from being courted. Newspapers are generally obsolete, yet elected officials fawn over them at endorsement time.
So as you watch Governor Blago go down, just remember, here in JoCo we do the same thing. Just nicer.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Soccer suckers slink from JoCo to Bannister Mall
Bruce Rodgers, you have done a fabulous job explaining why it is even WORSE for a local government to bail out the soccer boys at Bannister Mall--after we kicked them out of our pockets here in 2006 when the voters defeated Big Soccer's JoCo bailout.
http://www.kcactive.com/news/newscomm/index.htm
I especially loved when you reminded us that even the NFL and especially the Kansas City Chiefs are discounting THEIR tickets. I think it's down to $42 a ticket, or $30 if you're a teacher.
So--as we approach Christmas, let's raise a glass to the voters of Johnson County, who were smart enough to say no to Big Soccer and BiState II as well. If the TIF clan in KCMO is dumb enough to try to subsidize soccer at Bannister Mall, then KC truly is a mental sewer.
http://www.kcactive.com/news/newscomm/index.htm
I especially loved when you reminded us that even the NFL and especially the Kansas City Chiefs are discounting THEIR tickets. I think it's down to $42 a ticket, or $30 if you're a teacher.
So--as we approach Christmas, let's raise a glass to the voters of Johnson County, who were smart enough to say no to Big Soccer and BiState II as well. If the TIF clan in KCMO is dumb enough to try to subsidize soccer at Bannister Mall, then KC truly is a mental sewer.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
KC BizJournal breaking news: Bob Regnier took a $21 million federal bailout!
Before you read the entire story, here's my take:
Bob Regnier is CEO of Blue Valley Ban Corp (I guess the k went into default and got repossessed???!)
He runs Bank of Blue Valley.
He has built his entire reputation using Daddy's money.
Vic Regnier was a penny-pinching son of a gun. The Scrooge of Ranchmart. Not Big Bob!
Bob is the glad-handing chairman of the GKC Chamber, Bob is part of Union Station, Bob supports Union Station coming back in 2009!!! for another taxpayer bailout, because that bunch of unemployable dogooders can't manage their way out of a paper bag. Bob also led the campaign for JoCo's Research Triangle. Again--seeking taxpayer support for things that risktakers and drug companies should finance on their own. They won by using deliberately deceptive ballot wording. They refused to tell the voters it's a forever tax and it's a bond issue.
Now Bob Regnier is the first KC area banker to take a federal bailout, and OF COURSE SAY IT IS NOT ONE!
Well, Bob. It is. Spin all you like, Bobber. It's a bailout of your risky D Minus Rated Bank, (bizrate.com).
And now I read here in the KC BizJournal story that you'll then "regift" part of that money to JP Morgan Chase.
This bailout plan is stupid. It's creepy. And it's not soloving real problems. Predatory lenders are getting bailed out, but still Johnson County homeowners are losing their homes every day.
Shame on you guys. As Paul Krugman wrote, "Heads you win, tails, the taxpayers lose." That's not a fair game, it's a swindle with a smile.
But, as you told the KC Star's Mark Davis, on Nov. 18, "It's pretty cheap capital."
Yeah, last month you and your buddies had to pour $6 million of Daddy's money into your over-extended D Minus rated bank. So this month, you took $21.75 million from your Uncle Sam. What's next? A red kettle and a bell?
Here's what I want:
I don't have the time, so people, listen up for someone who does. Let's start a web site, like they have for Sex Predators. Call it PredatoryLenders.org. I'll find someone to host it, if you can find someone to do the research and go get these guys photos as jpg files.
Let's stop making heroes out of these professional pickpockets.
Tracy Thomas
Here is the great KCBizJournals story--great scoop guys:
Blue Valley Ban Corp. received $21.75 million from the U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday through the agency’s Capital Purchase Program.
The Kansas City-based bank holding company (OTCBB: BBBC), parent of Blue Valley Bank, sold 21,750 shares of fixed-rate cumulative perpetual preferred stock and a 10-year warrant to buy 111,083 shares of its common stock for $29.37 a share.
The preferred shares carry a 5 percent annual dividend rate, payable quarterly. The dividend rate increases to 9 percent after five years. The preferred shares have no redemption date but can’t be redeemed for three years. After that, they can be redeemed for $1,000 a share, plus accrued unpaid dividends.
The Treasury Department’s program includes a prohibition from increasing dividends or repurchasing stock without the agency’s approval. The regulations also place restrictions on executive pay.
Blue Valley Ban Corp. said in a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will use $17.5 million of the proceeds to repay a loan from J.P. Morgan Chase and the remainder of the money “for capital enhancements into the bank as needed and general corporate purposes.”
Robert Regnier, president of Blue Valley Ban Corp., said Tuesday that he decided to participate because more capital is better in today’s economic conditions. He said the Treasury Department capital shouldn’t be considered bailout money.
“We have to repay this money, and the government is going to make a profit,” Regnier said. “But it helps healthy institutions get stronger. It will allow us to expand our assets and our geographic base and continue to lend. We’ve been lending to our customers, but this just gives us more capital and expands our lending limit, making us a stronger institution without having to give up any significant dilution.”
Blue Valley is the first locally based bank to announce participation in the federal program. Kansas City-based UMB Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: UMBF) and Topeka-based Capital Federal Financial (Nasdaq: CFFN) both opted out of the program on Nov. 3. Kansas City-based Commerce Bancshares Inc. (Nasdaq: CBSH) opted out of the program on Nov. 14.
Bob Regnier is CEO of Blue Valley Ban Corp (I guess the k went into default and got repossessed???!)
He runs Bank of Blue Valley.
He has built his entire reputation using Daddy's money.
Vic Regnier was a penny-pinching son of a gun. The Scrooge of Ranchmart. Not Big Bob!
Bob is the glad-handing chairman of the GKC Chamber, Bob is part of Union Station, Bob supports Union Station coming back in 2009!!! for another taxpayer bailout, because that bunch of unemployable dogooders can't manage their way out of a paper bag. Bob also led the campaign for JoCo's Research Triangle. Again--seeking taxpayer support for things that risktakers and drug companies should finance on their own. They won by using deliberately deceptive ballot wording. They refused to tell the voters it's a forever tax and it's a bond issue.
Now Bob Regnier is the first KC area banker to take a federal bailout, and OF COURSE SAY IT IS NOT ONE!
Well, Bob. It is. Spin all you like, Bobber. It's a bailout of your risky D Minus Rated Bank, (bizrate.com).
And now I read here in the KC BizJournal story that you'll then "regift" part of that money to JP Morgan Chase.
This bailout plan is stupid. It's creepy. And it's not soloving real problems. Predatory lenders are getting bailed out, but still Johnson County homeowners are losing their homes every day.
Shame on you guys. As Paul Krugman wrote, "Heads you win, tails, the taxpayers lose." That's not a fair game, it's a swindle with a smile.
But, as you told the KC Star's Mark Davis, on Nov. 18, "It's pretty cheap capital."
Yeah, last month you and your buddies had to pour $6 million of Daddy's money into your over-extended D Minus rated bank. So this month, you took $21.75 million from your Uncle Sam. What's next? A red kettle and a bell?
Here's what I want:
I don't have the time, so people, listen up for someone who does. Let's start a web site, like they have for Sex Predators. Call it PredatoryLenders.org. I'll find someone to host it, if you can find someone to do the research and go get these guys photos as jpg files.
Let's stop making heroes out of these professional pickpockets.
Tracy Thomas
Here is the great KCBizJournals story--great scoop guys:
Blue Valley Ban Corp. received $21.75 million from the U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday through the agency’s Capital Purchase Program.
The Kansas City-based bank holding company (OTCBB: BBBC), parent of Blue Valley Bank, sold 21,750 shares of fixed-rate cumulative perpetual preferred stock and a 10-year warrant to buy 111,083 shares of its common stock for $29.37 a share.
The preferred shares carry a 5 percent annual dividend rate, payable quarterly. The dividend rate increases to 9 percent after five years. The preferred shares have no redemption date but can’t be redeemed for three years. After that, they can be redeemed for $1,000 a share, plus accrued unpaid dividends.
The Treasury Department’s program includes a prohibition from increasing dividends or repurchasing stock without the agency’s approval. The regulations also place restrictions on executive pay.
Blue Valley Ban Corp. said in a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will use $17.5 million of the proceeds to repay a loan from J.P. Morgan Chase and the remainder of the money “for capital enhancements into the bank as needed and general corporate purposes.”
Robert Regnier, president of Blue Valley Ban Corp., said Tuesday that he decided to participate because more capital is better in today’s economic conditions. He said the Treasury Department capital shouldn’t be considered bailout money.
“We have to repay this money, and the government is going to make a profit,” Regnier said. “But it helps healthy institutions get stronger. It will allow us to expand our assets and our geographic base and continue to lend. We’ve been lending to our customers, but this just gives us more capital and expands our lending limit, making us a stronger institution without having to give up any significant dilution.”
Blue Valley is the first locally based bank to announce participation in the federal program. Kansas City-based UMB Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: UMBF) and Topeka-based Capital Federal Financial (Nasdaq: CFFN) both opted out of the program on Nov. 3. Kansas City-based Commerce Bancshares Inc. (Nasdaq: CBSH) opted out of the program on Nov. 14.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
KC Star seems to be anorexic
On the Monday after Thanksgiving, the Star's metro section was six pages. Half of those were obituaries.
You know, if people don't start dying in larger numbers, and buying those big by-the-inch obits that are longer than Christmas newsletters, the B section might just disappear.
Is this the beginning of the end for the local news section? Sure feels like it. They did move the editorials to the back page.
Now I notice that they are publishing the real local JoCo news in the zone tabloids on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I know that seasoned reporters like Jim Sullinger and Finn Bullers feel that "real estate" is not as prestigious as the bigger format pages, but that is the New Reality.
As readers we are now also having to search for the real news in different sections.
Every day, the Star becomes more like People Magazine. Full page stories about Mom2Mom issues like breast feeding and ear piercing. Or Obama's necktie colors.
Sad.
I'm thinking of dropping the Star and instead paying virtually the same amount, $4.70 a week, for the New York Times weekend series. Friday, Sat, and the giant Sunday issues. I, for one, still need a paper in my hands to start my day. But it could just as easily be one newsworthy section of the NY Times.
How about you?
You know, if people don't start dying in larger numbers, and buying those big by-the-inch obits that are longer than Christmas newsletters, the B section might just disappear.
Is this the beginning of the end for the local news section? Sure feels like it. They did move the editorials to the back page.
Now I notice that they are publishing the real local JoCo news in the zone tabloids on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I know that seasoned reporters like Jim Sullinger and Finn Bullers feel that "real estate" is not as prestigious as the bigger format pages, but that is the New Reality.
As readers we are now also having to search for the real news in different sections.
Every day, the Star becomes more like People Magazine. Full page stories about Mom2Mom issues like breast feeding and ear piercing. Or Obama's necktie colors.
Sad.
I'm thinking of dropping the Star and instead paying virtually the same amount, $4.70 a week, for the New York Times weekend series. Friday, Sat, and the giant Sunday issues. I, for one, still need a paper in my hands to start my day. But it could just as easily be one newsworthy section of the NY Times.
How about you?
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Research Triangle promised free cancer care, but it's not true--will we have cancer victims trampling one another like Black Friday at Walmart??
Last Sunday, CBS Sunday Morning (formerly with Charles Kuralt, dear man) ran a piece on artist Peter Phelps. He was at death's door and in despair, diagnosed with cancer and losing his will to live. He got accepted to a clinical cancer trial at Sloan Kettering in Boston, and showed up all excited at their front door. He had sold everything he owned, and travelled there for treatment. During intake, they asked, "Where will you be sleeping tonight?"
And Phelps replied, "Well, here in your hospital of course!" That's when he learned the sad truth. A Cancer Trial does not give you a bed. It's a pill. You're on your own and check in periodically. It's like an outpatient methadone clinic. There's no nurse, no fluffy pillow, no cable TV.
A clinical cancer trial is for the benefit of the drug companies. The participants are just lab rats living on hope. If you survive, then Merck or Pfizer or whoever makes a billion dollars. But if you die, your survivors might get a Hallmark sympathy card.
Mr. Phelps was given a voucher for a cab to a homeless shelter. And a few bucks for a hamburger. He began making art out of salvage and trash. He taught others how to draw or occupy themselves while at the homeless shelter. But he never got a hospital bed. Or surgery. Just a few pills.
That scenario will happen here in Johnson County when the do-gooders open their clinical cancer trials in an office building in Fairway donated by Hallmark.
Expect some sad faces, because we voters were certainly deceived by Fred "Mr Johnson County" Logan, who actually defends doctors against lawsuits by dead or injured patients, and Mary "Miss Lathrop & Gage" Birch, and Bob "D Minus Rated Bank of Blue Valley" Regnier. And Barb Shelley, Finn Bullers and Jason Gertzen at the Star, and of course, Steve "I'm No Ben" Rose. Voters got 3 post cards promising FREE CANCER CARE! But it will be difficult to hold them accountable, because a scant 3 weeks after the election, they pulled down their web site of dreams.
Also never mentioned during their campaign of false hope was that Johnson County cancer patients will not get to go to the head of the line. It will be like Walmart on Black Friday--desperate people trampling one another. Seeking hope in a capsule.
And Phelps replied, "Well, here in your hospital of course!" That's when he learned the sad truth. A Cancer Trial does not give you a bed. It's a pill. You're on your own and check in periodically. It's like an outpatient methadone clinic. There's no nurse, no fluffy pillow, no cable TV.
A clinical cancer trial is for the benefit of the drug companies. The participants are just lab rats living on hope. If you survive, then Merck or Pfizer or whoever makes a billion dollars. But if you die, your survivors might get a Hallmark sympathy card.
Mr. Phelps was given a voucher for a cab to a homeless shelter. And a few bucks for a hamburger. He began making art out of salvage and trash. He taught others how to draw or occupy themselves while at the homeless shelter. But he never got a hospital bed. Or surgery. Just a few pills.
That scenario will happen here in Johnson County when the do-gooders open their clinical cancer trials in an office building in Fairway donated by Hallmark.
Expect some sad faces, because we voters were certainly deceived by Fred "Mr Johnson County" Logan, who actually defends doctors against lawsuits by dead or injured patients, and Mary "Miss Lathrop & Gage" Birch, and Bob "D Minus Rated Bank of Blue Valley" Regnier. And Barb Shelley, Finn Bullers and Jason Gertzen at the Star, and of course, Steve "I'm No Ben" Rose. Voters got 3 post cards promising FREE CANCER CARE! But it will be difficult to hold them accountable, because a scant 3 weeks after the election, they pulled down their web site of dreams.
Also never mentioned during their campaign of false hope was that Johnson County cancer patients will not get to go to the head of the line. It will be like Walmart on Black Friday--desperate people trampling one another. Seeking hope in a capsule.
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