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Looks like it is just another spin on aspartame.  I'll pass.

When he has asked me questions, some very personal and rather rude and  sometimes are actually disguised accusations, I answer the same way every time and never until I'm sure I know what I'm talking about. He just disregards my answers as if I'm invisible, and sometimes plays not-so -cute games suggesting that Liz is writing as me. What kind of looney tune suggests that? That cost him his credibility as far as I'm concerned...not that it matters.

So stop answering him then.  On this area of the forum, you have to put on your big girl panties and deal with it.  Ross is going to post what ever Ross is going to post.  Nothing has changed that I can see, so what???  Maybe Ross isn't trying to find the answers so much that he is trying to make people read, think and decide for themselves? 

I find it interesting that on one hand Ross wants to be considered knowledgeable of everything Elk County, but then tells folks not to believe a word he says.  Is he a pathological liar? That makes his "information" and opinions very unreliable. Does he really not know any better? Why should anyone vote as he demands they should?
People have answered many of his questions over and over and he just disregards them. What's that all about?. 
Personally, I taught for a number of years in a detached portable and it was fine, so I don't know what the problem is there, aside from storm fears.

No Diane, what Ross is saying is..... Do your own homework and verify what he has to say.  We all know people tend to listen only to those they run with and see others as a bunch of right wing wackos.  I see Ross' input as information, I read it, verify it and decide on it.  Really no different than what you get on any news channel these days.  Just because people have answered his questions doesn't mean he can't keep asking the same questions.  Sometimes in doing that very thing, the same people give different answers   

I agree.  Portables are perfectly fine.  As for storms, the portables are located on the north east side of the building, most storms here come from the south west... and that is what we have radar for and tornado sirens.  Our Sheriff just received a state of the art weather computer as did our Emergency Management Office. 

Use your intelligence.  Get your information from the source and by source, I mean the people who are in the building day after day, with the children and who personally know the conditions.  The people who work in those conditions.  They will be glad to answer your questions.

Ross, do you have any official information as to what it would cost to renovate the Moline school building to accommodate the grade school children?  And remember, it has to come up to state regulations.

Yes use your intelligence people.  Get your information and realize that we are being hosed, period.  I am not saying that our school does not need some improvements, but not $4,000,000.00 worth of my tax and the good citizens of the counties tax money. Spending per student here in West Elk is one of the highest in the state!  We spend over $23,000/year/student just in West Elk.  That is more than most people make in this county in a year.  And they want more of my money???!!!  This is outrageous.  No I think the school has become nothing more than another way to get more of other people's money and I won't stand for that. 

It wont cost $4,000,000.00 to upgrade the Moline school AND do some improvements in the High School. 

The children are not suffering as many would think being in portable buildings.  Tons of schools use them and the kids are doing just fine.  If fact, was it not the school board's idea to close down the Severy and Moline school and say the portables with save us tons of money? Now they aren't good enough?? Unbelievable.

I am tired of being taxed to death in this county and most of my taxes that are going up are the school taxes not the county taxes overall.  The county has decrease the last two years, thanks to the Board of Commissioners doing what they said they were going to do, put the wind farm money toward lowering taxes and fixing roads.  But the school just goes up and up and up.  And no one said a word about it.  Do you people even realize that the school board is a taxing authority by themselves?  With $23,000 we can put them through college at a good college here in kansas, and includes room and board!

Stay at it Ross, keep the people informed and let them decide.  There are two sides to every story and most times the real story never gets aired.  What are people so afraid of that they won't speak up and tell it like it is.   

There should be a tab with drop down menu that each city or township can have a page

If you are at the home page, each city or town's name is highlighted as a link to their own webpage, if they have one.

Just for clarification....

It is put into the grid.  My point is that it is sold to then to the east.  Does Westar or Caney Valley buy it from Tradewinds?  That I don't know.  If they did, then bravo, because then I and others in Kansas would benefit from it.  I can only look at what I find from their companies to tell me what they do with it.

The new power lines from Barton County across Kansas, Missouri and Illinois is being built not only to replace lines but to bring that power outside of Kansas because the existing lines aren't capable to carrying that power.  Again, power made here, leaves here. 

Well there is that matter of new, more powerful transmission lines through Kansas in order to move the power.  I still say, it would be beneficial of the wind energy made here, stays here.  I don't see my electric bill going down, I see it rising.

RE: Post from Elk County's New Website in response to  frawin

   
"Re: New Official Elk County Web Site
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Some of it probably is staying in Kansas or surrounding states. As I recall it was for a power company in Tennessee. I am positive it is not being routed to Tennessee but instead being traded . Power is traded all of the time. I trade crude oil and Natural Gas all the time."



No, actually if you do the research it is in fact all going east.

From the Tradewind Energy website (emphasis added):

Utility Buyers:
The power produced by Caney River will be sold to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation's largest public power company.  The power will be delivered to TVA's customers in the Southeast U.S.

http://www.tradewindenergy.com/project.aspx?id=238

Also taken from another site:

The Caney River Wind Project was developed by TradeWind Energy and is owned by Enel Green Power North America. The wind farm includes 111 Vestas V90 turbines that have a total nominal generating capacity of 200 megawatts (MW). The turbine towers stand 80 m (~260 feet) tall, and the blades are 44 m (~144 feet) long. Electricity produced at the Caney River Wind Project feeds into a regional transmission line and is sold to the Tennessee Valley Authority for its customers in the southeastern U.S.

http://www.geospectra.net/kite/caney/caney.htm
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I see the county has put up a business section.  That is great.  It is nice to have a place to go and find out what businesses are in the area.  I hope more sign up.  These days everyone uses the internet for that kind of information. What a great way to help boost businesses.

Too bad none of that great energy those wind towers are making actually stays in the state of Kansas.  Now that might be of great benefit not only to Elk County but to our neighboring counties as well.  Just good business.  As for the boost in employment, I fail to see that.  But I do not know exactly how many people they employ and if they are from Elk County. I know of one for sure but not of any others.  I can however see that the PILOT money is being spent wisely fixing our roads and helping lower our taxes.