Never underestimate the value of rotating your mattress occasionally. Got back pain and hitting the bottle of pain pills for some relief? You’ll be surprised at how often the simple act of rotating your mattress will help that pain disappear and eliminate the need for other pain relief methods.
I’m not your doctor but I do speak from real-life experience on this topic. You’re welcome, America.
What an NCAA Tournament. Don’t try to tell me you nailed all Final Four qualifiers. Or three out of four. Or even two out of four, for that matter.
Here’s something that’ll be fun to keep an eye on when the Final Four games are played Saturday and the championship game is played Monday. You might remember in our March 8 edition of The Landmark long before the brackets were announced, I told you about some “futures” bets I had made at Hollywood Casino way back in January.
One of those futures bets I told you about was a $20 investment on UConn to win the national championship this season. At 25 to 1 odds. So, if UConn cuts down the nets on Monday night, the sportsbook in KCK will be handing me $520. And deservedly so, I might add.
So I know you’ll be cheering for this to happen. . . right? Right?
The Major League Baseball season begins Thursday. As you know because I unabashedly bragged about it, I nailed four out of five win total over/under picks for you last baseball season. Please keep most of that money in your pocket because I have only invested in one win total bet this season. I put a small investment on the Royals finishing with fewer than 69 wins. The only other baseball future I have is pizza money on the White Sox to win the American League Central, with the odds paying 2.5 to 1.
Will Missouri’s state legislature get legalized sports betting passed this year? At least one Senate leader says it seems unlikely.
“I’d be more surprised than not if it passes this year,” said President Pro Tem Sen. Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia, last week.
Our local State Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer of Platte County isn’t giving up just yet. “We’re still working through some issues, but I remain optimistic that we can get something to the governor’s desk. It’s seems pretty silly to me that someone has to drive over to Kansas to place a bet on the Chiefs. Every time that happens, it’s tax money leaving Missouri that could be used to support our schools,” Luetkemeyer told me on Monday.
The much talked about election for three seats on the Platte County Health Board is next Tuesday. Don’t forget to vote.
One incumbent, Paula Willmarth, is on the ballot, and she has drawn vocal opposition from two county commissioners, Scott Fricker and Dagmar Wood, who in some ways seem trapped in an echo chamber or a 2020 time machine on anything remotely related to health department business. In a bizarre move while he was conducting a recent county commission administrative session inside the Platte County Administration Building, Fricker went as far as to specifically encourage the public to vote against the incumbent in the health board race. No matter your politics or whether or not you support Willmarth, it can’t be denied that it’s very unusual–some might even say inappropriate–for an elected official to be making political endorsements while conducting the public’s business on the public’s payroll inside the public’s building.
Wrong time, wrong place for that.
Maybe I haven’t been providing this public reminder of longstanding Landmark policy frequently enough, because this week I had to turn away several political letters to the editor. It has long been The Landmark’s policy to stop political letters to the editor two weeks in advance of an election. The reason for this is to prevent any last minute claims or attacks without allowing time for a response from the other side.
Paid political advertisements can be placed at any time. Political letters to the editor in the final edition prior to the election are a no-no.
It’s the most fair way to handle political letters. Don’t want anyone going Full Dagmar without time for rebuttal.
If you’re somewhat new to matters of the health department real estate moves and health department finances and you’ve only heard the Fricker/Wood version of those two things, you might find the text of Karen Payne’s political ad on page 12 to be informative.
In response to an inquiry from a member of the reading public, seats on the Platte County Health Department Board of Trustees are unpaid public positions. Health board members receive no compensation.
In a social media posting, the Platte County Health Department has announced it will be opening its new location at 110th and Ambassador (officially 7925 NW 110th St.) on May 1. The department says its offices will be closed to the public April 24-28 in advance of the move.
Who knows if helpful answers will come from the audit of mail service in the Northland planned by the United States Postal Service, but at least now you have reason to believe your complaints have been heard.
“The Postal Service has completely abandoned its legal responsibility to provide reliable six day mail delivery to Missourians in the greater Kansas City area. Worse still, they’ve offered empty excuses and failed to deliver any real plan to fix this mess. We’re inviting Postmaster General DeJoy to Kansas City to hear the struggles of our constituents firsthand and lay out a clear plan for the agency to live up to its promise,” Congressmen Sam Graves and Emanuel Cleaver said recently in a letter to US Postmaster Louis DeJoy. DeJoy then a few days later announced the upcoming audit.
(Get more alerts about echo chambers and time machines from Foley via email to ivan@plattecountylandmark.com)