PARTLY NONSENSE- New ‘skin’ means new services

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN JOEL KLAASSEN
This week we’re rolling out a new “skin” on our Free Press Web site. We hope you find it even more useful than the old one.

New features allow for print ads and special sections to be uploaded to the site, as well as top jobs, top real estate and top auto ads.

We have also have a partnership with PennySaverUSA to give you free Internet classifieds, including up to five photos, that will compete with Craigslist and other national classified sites.

With this new service, anyone in the world will be able to find your classified among nearly a million ads that are currently on the PennySaverUSA site. Our classified section has a link to this powerful classified engine.

The free-paper industry has banded together to create this common site to compete with national sites such Yahoo and Craigslist, which are accessible from local newspaper sites across the country.

Stay tuned for more updates.

I don’t know about you, but I have had my fill of political ads. In fact, I’ve had my fill of politics in general.

Supposedly, our elected officials in Washington are working for us, but I think the opposite is true. I saw on CNN that Congress has been in session for only 94 days this year. At $186,000 per year that works out to $1,800 per day in session.

On the state level, I went to the Wichita Eagle Web site to look up campaign contributions to both Sen. Jim Barnett and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

The list of contributors for Sebelius is much longer than Barnett’s, and the lion’s share of them come from out of state.

The Eagle explained that Barnett has to use the attack-ad approach because of limited funds for his campaign. If the playing field were level, would that help candidates focus on the issues?

I was watching “The Late Show” with David Letterman the other night and got to thinking how frustrating it must be to play in the band. They never get to finish a song.

I went to Kansas City this past weekend to the apparel market with Nancy. I’ve gotten to know many of the sales representatives quite well through the years. One of them handed me a section of the Kansas City Star that included an article about how some heart stents may not be all that great. Doctors now doubt the effectiveness of the tiny things that are inserted into blocked coronary arteries.

I read the article and then decided that I’ll not have mine taken out. This sales rep really knew how to spoil a person’s day.

A friend of ours who used to live in Hillsboro recently went on a trip to Paris with a friend. She bought some kitchen knives to bring back as a gift. In the rush to get packed and on the plane, her friend said she’d help her consolidate her bags from three to two to make it easier to handle everything.

Unknowingly, her knives were in her carry-on and when she went through security they called her over and the security person yelled, “Is this your bag?” When she acknowledged that it was, he yelled, “Knives!”

The gift didn’t make it home.

I wondered if you knew how to get the flies out of the kitchen now that they all want to be indoors.

Simply pile some manure in the living room.

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