Because of this year's cook-off location, we chose to go home. We hope next year its organizers will move it back. Of course, we all know the answer to the question. When you can afford to give millions to political campaigns, set up special education retreats for judges and fund think tanks, there is no real fear that the law you wish applied to others would ever apply to you. It is sad to sense the grief that Terry Asla experienced for more than 40 years, following the death of his father, Major Felix Asla, in the Korean War.
Death is always sad when it has a face, family and story.
It is so trivialized when it is simply a score kept by a star on the side of a jet. Rep. Gwen Welshimer has done a superb job of representing District 88 in the Kansas Legislature. She knows how to survive the assaults of big interests and still stand up for John Q. Public. She stands for your right to choose your medical provider, including the provider of alternative medicine, whether that be a naturopathic physician, an acupuncturist, a chiropractor, a massage therapist or a midwife. I have watched her champion the rights of parents and grandparents.