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  The rest of the Legislature changed the law so Shawnee County would never have to do what the statute already required. Four members refused. Esau, James, Rhiley, and Schwertfeger voted to keep the public’s seat. Kevin Cook never created the commission when the law said shall. Then the statute got softened so he wouldn’t have to. Those four did their job. He didn’t.

The U.S. Supreme Court just reminded everybody that when the law says shall , it means shall . Not “when we feel like it.” Not “after we rewrite the statute.” Shall. Kansas law used to say the same thing. K.S.A. 19-2670 was crystal clear: in a county between 170,000 and 200,000 people, there shall be a Citizens Commission on Local Government. Shawnee County is the only county that fit. That commission was supposed to put regular citizens at the table — not just the usual huddle of officials — and look at how local government actually works. Kevin Cook and the rest of the Commission sat on that “shall” for years. They never created it. They never appointed the 18 citizen members the law required. They never wanted the public in the room. Then some of us started talking about it. Suddenly Senate Bill 104 appeared. One word change: shall became may . Shawnee County’s own counselor went to the Legislature and asked for it. The Senate rubber-stamped it 40–0. The House passed it 119–4...

Commissioner Cook: You are a lawyer. You are an officer of the court. You sit on JEDO with a vote. That is not a hobby. That is a higher duty than the rest of the room, and you have spent years reminding people that you know the rules better than they do. So let’s talk about the rule you applied to me. You came at me personally over a hot dog. Electioneering, you said. A frank in a bun. Mustard. Onions. You treated that like I had stuffed the ballot box. Fine. You set the temperature. Live at that temperature. Now apply it. On May 6, 2024, Molly Howey sent me GO Topeka’s own list of “grants/contributions/sponsorships/scholarships” for 2022 and 2023. I published it. The line includes church dinners, ministry retreats, Juneteenth festivals, an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet, YWCA awards tables, Peace and Justice sponsorships, and a $10,000 night called For the Culture KS. The civic/banquet/church/festival slice that no honest person can c...

A memoir is not “everything that happened.” It is one life, shaped around a question the reader can feel. For you, that question is already sitting in the material: What does it take to leave home, make a career in real estate across the country, come back to Topeka, and still try to change the place you came from? The techniques below are how you turn videos, public comments, and memory into pages. 1. Pick the book, not the whole life Biography tries to cover every year. Memoir covers a through-line . Useful frames for yours: Leaving and returning — 1979 license, 1983 Macerich, the years away, the ~2000 homecoming. The dealmaker vs. the city — TIF/CID, public comment, campaigns. What you want the next generation to inherit — family, Shawnee County, the town you want someone to come home to. Everything that does not serve that line goes in an appendix, a later volume, or a blog post. That cut is the first real writing decision. 2. Two voices on every page Good memoir uses two s...

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  PROFILE · SEPTEMBER 12, 2026 A deep dive on Taylor Riggs, CFA — the Fox Business co-anchor who treats a balance sheet like a beat and a marathon like a career plan. By Henry McClure · MCRE Media Most business-television anchors can read a ticker. A smaller number can read a 10-K without blinking. A still smaller number can do both live, two hours a day, with a Chartered Financial Analyst charter on the résumé, a master’s in finance from Johns Hopkins, a law-school night shift in progress, seventeen finished marathons, and two young daughters at home. That is the stack Taylor Riggs brings to Fox Business Network’s The Big Money Show . The show airs weekdays from noon to 2 p.m. Eastern. Riggs co-hosts with Jackie DeAngelis, Brian Brenberg, and Dagen McDowell. The format is a roundtable: markets, the Fed, earnings, inflation, housing, and the household consequences of all of it. Her public case for the job is not that Wall Street needs another talking head. It is that ordinary v...

Rodney Dangerfield spent decades telling America that he got “no respect.” At 72, after a lifetime of turning rejection and failed relationships into punchlines, he married Joan Child, the Santa Monica florist who had spent ten years seeing the tender man behind the red tie. Their love story began in 1983, when Rodney wandered into her flower shop and delivered an opening line strange enough to sound like one of his routines. Joan recognized him immediately. She had first watched him on television as a teenager, and now the comedian she remembered from “The Tonight Show” was standing at her counter. Rodney asked what kind of drugs she liked. Joan, raised in a conservative Utah Mormon family, innocently answered, “Antibiotics, I guess.” Rodney was charmed. He kept coming back, often while she arranged flowers, until those visits became something both of them expected. Years later, Joan remembered the first sight of him with extraordinary warmth. “For me, it was love at first...