THE SENTINEL - Key Persons
Dave Hicks grew up in southern Missouri and graduated from Mizzou with a degree in political science. He has worked as a congressional staffer, broadcaster, government bureaucrat, columnist, campaign worker, and small business owner.
He and his wife Roberta live in rural Bonner Springs and are parents to three dogs.
Patrick Richardson has been a working journalist since 1992 at community papers across Kansas and for the last 10 as an editor for papers in Southeast Kansas, Northeast Oklahoma, and Southwest Missouri. As a freelancer, he has also broken major stories for national outlets like PJ Media and The Daily Caller.
Richardson was born in Wichita and raised in Southwest Kansas and currently lives in extreme SE Kansas, with his wife, two Great Danes, English Bulldog and 10 grandchildren.
Board member Rob Shippy demanded that Thomas look at the people in the board room.
"We sent a letter to the Senate committee hearing," Carlisle said. "That's incorrect and I'm not going to let incorrect information be stated without a rebuttal."
"Those are the people you are accusing of filling out documents falsely," Shippy said. "And you haven't called up here to research the information yourself either."
Job Titles:
- Edgerton Student - "As a Student, I'M Telling You That Remote Learning Is Not Working and We Need to Go Back to School."
"Our classes are supposed to be 82 minutes long at the high school level, but because we are online and teachers have to give screen breaks in all but one of my classes, I am in class for a maximum of 30 - 40 minutes. Being in class for only half of the day does not prepare me for the next few years of high school or college."
Amy Blake, Gardner-Edgerton parent & critical care nurse - "I know COVID well. While all precautions should be utilized, a positive COVID case is not synonymous with hospitalization and death. What honestly clogs up my ER are patients waiting for an in-patient psychiatric bed. When I went into work last night, 35% of my patients were on a psychiatric hold for suicidal thoughts."
Tyler Thomas, Gardner-Edgerton student - "As a student, I'm telling you that remote learning is not working and we need to go back to school."