Showing posts with label Mike Pompeo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Pompeo. Show all posts

Jul 15, 2014

What's Up in Wichita with Abandoned Houses, Lack of Grocery Stores, Health Care and Birth Control.......

Cindy Mann ....here is an inspirational reply to the story first.......

The Obama administration did not declare war on aviation. Maybe someday the republicans will learn to accept 

 responsibility and stop blaming everyone for the messes they make. And for the past six years the only person that has 

 been working is President Obama. Meanwhile the republican controlled congress has turned every breath he takes into a 

 scandal. And, offered nothing....except hate for the federal government...and hate for our first african american 

 president. The republican congress is possibly the worst in history. You can't blame the problems in Ks aviation on 

 President Obama. Where you find a red state, you usually find a failed state.



......exactly.....you've got Mike Pompeo saying he is against the ACA to save jobs....that is an out and out lie.  I would like him to answer for that statement.

Also you've got the council recently voting against birth control.....what is going on?

In the lower income area there are not even grocery stores in walking distance.  How will someone get food if they do not have a car.

Some of these things can easily be improved......health care for everyone with easy access to birth control, grocery stores with easy access in the low income areas and stop spreading the lies about President  Obama--he is doing a fabulous job.  He has given us healthcare and stood up for women.

There is nothing to be gained by the crazy conservatism here....one person stopped being friends with me because I supported President Obama.

Seriously, the person was misinformed by his church, of all things--and wasn't even having it when it came to a political discussion.


Stop the lies--get the groceries and get on with it--Wichita is basically a very nice place.

Chloe Louise--the ronnie republic and What's Up Wichita.........always looking for contributors--agree or disagree.


from the Wichita Eagle.......

Wichita real estate officials view latest ranking of ‘abandoned’ homes with skepticism

  • Published Monday, July 14, 2014, at 1:23 p.m.
  • Updated Monday, July 14, 2014, at 5:09 p.m.

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Wichita has the distinction of having the highest percentage of vacant foreclosed houses in the nation, according to a report from an online company, but area real estate officials said Monday that the numbers don’t say much – if anything – about the state of the area’s housing market.
Wall Street 24/7, an Internet-based financial news and opinion service, said based on its analysis of data of 100 metropolitan areas, Wichita had the highest percentage — 49 percent — of foreclosed homes that were vacant. It said of 301 properties in foreclosure in the second quarter of 2014, 146 were vacant. The data studied came from the real estate company RealtyTrac.
“Honestly I don’t think it means very much,” said Stan Longhofer, director of the Center for Real Estate at Wichita State University. “Percentages are always misleading when you deal with that low of a base.”
For example, Longhofer added, “If we had two houses in foreclosure in Sedgwick County and all of a sudden, next year we had four, that would be a 100 percent increase.”
Some publications, such as USA Today, have picked up the report, calling the vacant homes in foreclosure, “abandoned.”
Greg Fox, president of the South Central Kansas Multiple Listing Service and owner of real estate brokerage Realty World Alliance, said, “We don’t have very many foreclosures going on if we’ve got 300.”
According to RealtyTrac‘s website, as of May one in every 4,697 houses in Sedgwick County was in foreclosure. That compares with one in every 2,861 houses in foreclosure in Kansas, and one in every 1,199 houses in foreclosure in the U.S., according to RealtyTrac.
Longhofer said once a house goes into foreclosure, it doesn’t mean the house is immediately vacated by the home owner. The foreclosure process takes months, and it’s generally not until much later in the process — after the lender has filed a court action to foreclose — that the owner is evicted.
“I think given the numbers we’re dealing with here, they were previously renter occupied or purchased for that reason, or it (the vacant house) was in a situation where the previous owner moved out ... (and the house is) not inhabitable,” he said.

here is a link to the story and there are also some very inspirational comments:


Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/07/14/3552861/local-real-estate-officials-view.html#storylink=cpy

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Jul 10, 2014

Judge Jeanine Pirro: Stunningly Beautiful and Stunningly Incorrect--Where in the world is Geraldo Rivera

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Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Geraldo Rivera.
Geraldo Rivera. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
from the desk of the Ronnie Republic Radio Round-Up:

Judge Jeanine Pirro--stunningly beautiful but stunningly incorrect.

When will WABC News/Talk Radio New York finally come to its senses and use their own talent and lose these angry radio jays on their anti-President Obama rant.

In the first place it is not a political conversation--it does not inspire new thoughts or an exchange of ideas it's just angry birds shouting at the listeners.

Where in the world is Geraldo Rivera and when is he coming back.....

Shall I switch to a local station for the anti-Obama daily tirade of lies.

Noam Laden--thinks and talks at the same time without getting mad


Seriously, here in Wichita, we have Koch-backed Mike Pompeo chanting about Obama care causing a loss of jobs and proudly stating he has voted against it 57 times.

Really, because these progressive thinking Kansas politicians also just voted against birth control.

Couple that with their desert waste land of lack grocery stores and we've got the conservative heartland.

That's right--someone told me here President Obama was so influenced by his Muslim advisers he was not able to make proper decisions.  This man was serious--he learned it in church.

Judge Jeanine Pirro is spreading the lies........

Why not use their brilliant home-grown talent on hand...........

What is WABC thinking...what about Noam Laden and Rita Cosby....even Judge Napolitano.....they run a show of conversation and chat and information--angry shouting is not fun or informational listening.  One side is not interesting.

The age old question remains......

Mad man Mendte--often incorrect, always angry
Are we listening to talk/news radio for interesting conversation of the day--for new pertinent information--for the political big talkers on each side--or just to hear the angry right wing rant of conservative republicans.

Shall we only have the opinion of the angry GOP shouters and not form thoughts for ourselves based on information.

Stunningly beautiful but sadly incorrect
And the Republican Party wonders what is happening....

Shall I go into the legacy of our beautiful President here.......okay just for Judge Jeanine and Mad man Mendte.......who is also incorrect.

We have health care now for everyone--what is their better idea for health care and preventative medicine--no one benefits from citizens not having health care....it is more expensive for all of us in the long run.

Everyone is now part of the political conversation--that is President Obama's brilliant legacy.

Prior to this many were just talked at rather than talked to....now everyone is in the conversation and a part of it.  this is a first...it all began when President Obama spoke against Rush Limbaugh during the Sandra Fluke episode.  That is new--for a sitting president to actually mention names.

At the end of the day the world is a better place--he made it personal.

Judge Jenine should be thinking two times about her influence on women as a successful individual and women, herself.  I admire Judge Jeanine Pirro but here is hoping she will come to her senses.

No one minds if they have a different opinion but to spend the show shouting the angry political rant of the right wing does not a political conversation or a radio show make.

Just ask Naom Laden and Rita Cosby--they do not freak-out or shout--they ask the caller what they think and listen....do we agree with them...who knows.......

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Jul 9, 2014

from What's Up Wichita: Hey, There's Not Any Place to Buy Groceries

Seriously, after recently moving to Wichita without a car I realized I was in a grocery no-man's land..........finally walking to the Dollar store where nothing was a dollar......frustration set in.
Actually, if one lives over by WSU there is no where in the world to walk and get food.....how do the poor people, like me, do it.
At the end of the day...the closest food is McDonalds.....while everyone enjoys their dollar menu it is not nutritious for everyday fare.
In the place where inexpensive groceries are needed with easy access--walking--it just does not exist.
Right, I couldn't believe it.....why.
Shall we ask Mike Pompeo......since he is against healthcare for Wichita citizens is he against quality food at a fair price, too.......will he address these issues.....does he care......does his mom care.....
Neighbors concerned about effects of Wichita Dillons closings

  • Published Tuesday, July 8, 2014, at 9:58 p.m.
  • Updated Tuesday, July 8, 2014, at 11:30 p.m.

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Growing up across the street from the angular green-and-brick Dillons store at Harry and Broadway, Amber and Ashlee Kimminau would walk to the store almost daily, for anything from fruit to a quick soda.
The location, along with the Dillons at 13th and Woodlawn, is set to close after 61 years of operation, because it has not performed up to expectations and its location is not conducive to renovations or expansion.
“The assembled fact is there are houses all around here, and they need a Dillons,” Amber Kimminau said. “It’s an oldie, but it’s a good one.”
Neighborhood residents worry that when the stores close July 19, they will become part of a “food desert,” a term for low-income areas more than a mile from the nearest full-service grocery store.
Wichita already has 44 square miles of food desert, according to a survey last year by the Health and Welfare Coalition, a partnership of the Wichita YMCA, city and county government, the Kansas Health Foundation, the Metro Chamber of Commerce and a host of local businesses with an interest in community health.
“One-fourth of our Wichita population lives in a food desert,” said Becky Tuttle, a staff member with the coalition.
She said it’s uncertain whether the closing of the two Dillons stores will expand the food desert or, if it does, by how much.
But it is highly likely that the loss of the two stores will make it more difficult for some in core areas to get access to fruits, vegetables, grain products and lean proteins, the four staple groups that improve individual and community health, she said.
Tuttle said the closures will mean that at least some residents, particularly those who rely on public transportation, will have to go farther to get their groceries and could choose to supplement their diets more often with convenience-store food.
The coalition study found that while nearly half of convenience stores offer fresh fruit – such as apples, bananas and oranges – fewer than 1 in 10 offer fresh vegetables.
Dillons, a division of the grocery giant Kroger Co., did take that into consideration when choosing to close the stores, but it was a business decision that had to be made, said company spokeswoman Sheila Lowrie.
“In all honesty, we have to look at the operations from a business perspective, just as any other retailer would,” she said. “If we have a location that has deteriorating sales and has been underperforming for some time, we have to absorb the costs of that business, of that store, in all areas of our company.”
Dillons won’t provide specifics on just how underperforming the stores were, but the clear trend was that business was moving away from smaller stores toward the bigger supermarkets with wider variety, discounts on gasoline and other amenities.
“With our customers, what we’re seeing from their shopping habits is they’re choosing to shop with us at some of our larger, newly renovated store locations where they can find everything like fresh produce, natural foods and maybe some of the additional amenities like Starbucks or sushi,” Lowrie said.
The Kansas Health Institute recently analyzed community food access as part of a larger study into the city bus system and found many residents struggle to bring home enough healthy food.
“It was particularly true for low-income neighborhoods, because they don’t have alternative modes of transportation to get to the other stores,” said Tatiana Lin, senior analyst and strategy team leader for the institute. “They don’t have additional discretionary funds to pay for gas. It increases their likelihood to rely on convenience stores or Dollar General in the area.”
The loss of the Dillons stores, both of which were on bus routes, could be a further obstacle for people to get the kind of food they need, said Sheena Smith, an analyst who worked with Lin on the study.
Dillons closed four urban stores in Wichita in 2008: 13th and Waco, Central and Oliver, Douglas and Meridian and Lincoln and Hydraulic.
The company kept its store at Douglas and Hillside and built a new and larger store at Harry and Edgemoor that took up some of the slack. The rest of the company’s stores form a more or less ringlike suburban constellation around the urban core.
Longtime south Wichita resident David Bonfiglio said he’s worried his neighborhood Dillons will become another “shuttered store front on neglected South Broadway.”
“This is going to be a huge blow to the neighborhood,” Bonfiglio said.
“It’s one of the most vulnerable areas of Wichita. Many customers here walk to the store, ride their bicycles to the store – now they have miles and miles left to go.”
While there is a Wal-Mart relatively close to the neighborhood – at Pawnee and Broadway, a mile south of the Dillons – the Kimminaus said they fear the corner will go the way of 13th and Waco. Dillons closed its store there in 2008, which “killed everything” in the neighborhood, Ashlee Kimminau said.
“So what if it’s not a super-Dillons?” she said of the Broadway store. “I think it’s just perfect for people around the neighborhood. It feels like they’re taking from the poor.”
Bob Goudy, 79, said he has been going to the Dillons at 13th and Woodlawn for “someteen years.”
Now, he said, he will make arrangements to go to the nearby Walmart Neighborhood Market at 13th and Oliver or the Dillons Marketplace at Central and Rock Road.
“I can see a pattern in the area,” Goudy said. “It was nice to be able to walk here when the weather was nice enough, but it won’t affect me too much.”
Bonfiglio said he hopes the company will reconsider its decision to close the locations.
“I hope Dillons will look at the numbers again and decide that they’re better off serving this community,” he said.
Reach Dion Lefler at 316-268-6527 or dlefler@wichitaeagle.com.


copied from the wichita eagle.com or kansas.com


from the ronnie republic and what's up wichita........


Hey, what do you think is going on in Wichita........


the Dillons is closing....I can't walk for groceries in Wichita...what about you:



Talking about the high prices at the "Dollar" Stores.......




Talking about Mike Pompeo--is he right about ObamaCare...


Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/07/08/3544892/residents-concerned-about-effects.html#storylink=cpy

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