Dear Editor, We just want to thank you for covering the Southwest Kansas Storm game and their donation to the Circle of Hope Cancer Support Group in the Dodge City Globe. You have helped us with cancer patients to know what we can do to help them with cancer expenses and other needs via our website, www.circleofhopedodgecity.
Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency Dear Amy: I’ve been married for 36 years. Whenever we see my husband’s family, there would be a point when the “family” would be in one room and the “not-family” in another.
April 1, 2023 Dear Friends … So Week 12 of the 2023 Legislative Session started off with my Staff Assistant -- who just happens to be a lawyer -- coming into my office and saying (jokingly), “Senator, we have a problem: there’s an article in yesterday’s Topeka paper that says there are 7,900 active attorneys in the state, but not a single one in Hodgemon County. Does that mean we can claim you got 100% of the ‘legal’ vote in Jetmore – or that I can move out there and run unopposed for County Attorney?” I responded “yes” to both, but qualified it by defining “unopposed” as meaning “no one would vote against you – just for the other guy!” – and that’s no April Fool! Reminded me a little bit of the quip our venerable former U.S.
This column will wrap up March 2023 and another month down in history. It’s unbelievable how fast time goes.
Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency Dear Amy: : I’m a retired Army officer and since 2008 have deferred all decisions about my finances to my wife, who has an MBA. For the past five years, she did our taxes and I never even had the chance to review them.
Ed. note: Dodge City Community College President Harold Nolte received this letter and wanted to extend its sentiments as a Letter to the Editor of the Dodge City Globe so readers could share his appreciation of the exemplar sentiments of sportsmanship contained therein.
Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency Dear Amy: My husband of nine years has a secret Twitter account where he’s been sexting other people, complete with exchanged pictures and videos. I confronted him about it, explained that it crossed boundaries I’m not comfortable with, and he promised he’d delete the account.
March 25, 2023 Dear Friends … This last, Week 11, for most committees to meet in the Legislature also presented me with a first: the opportunity since becoming a Senator to -- in the absence for personal reasons of the Chairman -- guide my Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee through our final round of bill mark-ups and reporting.
After experiencing a severe ice storm, wind storms and wildfires in recent years, southwest Kansans can easily imagine what could happen if a catastrophic event damaged or destroyed parts of our electrical system. Without a reliable, robust electric grid, we would all be left in the dark. After our cell phone batteries ran out, most of us would be cut off from family and friends. We would have to make do without the technology that we often take for granted and rely on to store and cook our food, heat and cool our homes, and connect with the world.
Dear Amy: : I’m writing in response to “E.D.” who wrote that the pandemic has changed her. I found your advice for her to engage in her cultural interests of music and art useful, but I wanted to offer my perspective, as someone who wishes desperately that I could do these things without considering my personal risk.