Kansan HTML/CSS Workshops (Fall)
In an ongoing search for more staff on the digital side, PoliticalFiber.com teamed with Kansan.com to sponsor another round of workshops. Fall 2012 featured two beginner courses and one intermediate. The site was written and created from scratch, save a few links from the Workshops of Spring 2011. The touch-up of the spring’s workshops, included a [...]
The End of the End of the Belt (And Successful Shopping Tips)
As I brought the cereal boxes two inches forward on a slow Sunday afternoon, I finally realized something. The apron wasn’t meant for me. Not only did it highlight my bulby bottom and awkward frame, but black was really never my color. It also represented an institution I simply couldn’t tolerate any more, minimum wage [...]
Knock Knock Knockin’
Last Friday I had the 3:30-7:00 p.m. shift, but what could I do? I kept asking for Saturdays off, and now my Bank of America digits were coming closer and closer to the big O. I needed the money, so I was driven to accept the awkward time slot. Like any resourceful teenager, I stalked [...]
Kansas, Get Your Act Together
Today should have been a snowday. Instead, it was a workday. I usually work the 11-5 shift on Saturdays, and enjoy it because I can party late on Friday and still get a good 9 hour sleep. But today work was a chilly hell as a snow storm barraged the parking lot and iced the [...]
Music Meltdown
A staple for any self-respecting grocery store is quality music. The soundtrack practically consumes the store as it fills the awkward space inbetween aisles and shelves. It gaps your thoughts when you wonder if Nabisco really offers better saltines than Zesto. It uplifts the spirits when it’s just you between the wide shelves of aisle [...]
After fatal car crash, junior leaves behind legacy of strong faith and kindness (Bryan Barrow)
His closest friends and family didn’t know how to react to the boy in the white bed, a boy who standing was rarely still or quiet. But this boy hadn’t moved a hair. At 10:30 p.m. that Friday night, Bryan’s Volvo hit Brush Creek’s pines near 51st Street and Ward Parkway. He was wearing his [...]
The Long and Winding Road
“I’ll take you to get a car.” Those magic seven words from mom signaled the end of my minivan days, and the start of a new, high-flying era of after-10 curfew and unlimited QuickTrip runs. But like all things that come from the golden land of Detroit, there was fine print under this new lease [...]
“Levin” his dream
It was love at first sight. Sophomore Adam Levin held the Gibson as if it were made of solid gold. He examined the fret board with his fingers. He toyed with the tuning machines. His eyes bored through the lacquered body. It was meant to be. The new guitar was a status symbol – his [...]
Isolated
How could this be psychological? I’d have daily seizure-like fits, at 11, 3 and 7. I couldn’t walk in a straight line and had extreme behavioral changes for over a month. Did I want to live like this? But they said it was all in my head. They said I needed to see a psychiatrist, [...]
A freshman not forgotten (J Crnkovich)
Originally published in The Harbinger, Oct. 2, 2007 Nearly everyone he had ever known or worked with was there, from the lunch ladies to the principals. They formed a long line past the coffin, sharing condolences and fond memories with his two middle school sisters, his father and step mom. Jay had lightened each of [...]