Commission

SIGNS OF CHANGE

Kane said Topeka enforces ordinances regulating the placement of temporary signs within city limits, but no such regulations exist in unincorporated areas of Shawnee County. That needs to change, she said.Aziz, the taller, clean-shaven, besuited cousin, has just published his business memoir entitled: The Social Elevator Was Broken, I Took The Stairs. His shared-ride mini-cab company - "faster than a bus, cheaper than a taxi" - employs 100 people in Mantela-Jolie. In Britain, he would be just another second- generation success story, but in France he is exceptional, a statistical error in the economic graph. Few children of immigrants manage to succeed in business in France."This really is a Western problem, " he says.The measure adds: "Temporary signs shall not be affixed to utility poles, utility boxes, trees or traffic signs. Any temporary sign located in violation of this resolution or remaining in place for more than 30 days may be removed by the county without notice."What's not up for debate, however, is the way Americans have embraced the bronco-busters, hired guns and schoolmarms as their own.- Conduct a public hearing on home rule resolutions that would institute leash laws for Indian Hills Subdivisions Nos. 2, 3 and 5, which are south and west of S.W. 10th and Indian Hills Road. The proposal would enable sheriff's deputies or animal control officers to capture and impound dogs found running at large in those subdivisions.Tim Hrenchir can be reached at (785) 295-1184 or tim.hrenchir@cjonline.com.How much it all jibes with what happened here 150 years ago may be up for debate in the halls of learning."People need to advertise on their own premises for the event, and most of all, they need to advertise in the newspaper as opposed to taking signs and putting them up in other areas," she said."I gave up on France, my life is now in England, " says Hamid without a trace of sentimentality. "Like the boys who are rioting, I feel French, I was brought up in French culture but people kept telling me I was different. My father nation is Morocco, my mother is France, but I have been adopted by England."He's sharp and articulate enough in English to hold his own in any forum. As well as being funny, he's extremely polite in that way that makes mothers proud. Yet, he is unacceptable to France.If so, the Festival of the American West in Wellsville apparently hasn't gotten word. Like the newspaper editor in the movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," the festival believes when a legend becomes truth, you print the legend.In Paris, curfews and bans on public association only reinforce the growing sense of siege. The capital, on a quiet Saturday, its centre emptied for the Armistice commemoration holiday, feels anxious.He has threatened deportation for foreign residents caught rioting, regardless of their right to be in the country, and some of his fellow parliamentarians have gone further, calling for arrested rioters to be stripped of French citizenship. The last time the French state did that was with the Jews under the collaborationist Vichy regime. It just adds to the anger in the suburbs. "This is playing with fire, " says Hamid. "If just one person is deported, the whole place will go up in flames again."The festival has been in business long enough now that organizers have the drill down pat. All the types put in an appearance -- mountain men, prospectors, cavalry officers, farmers and -- of course -- cowboys and Indians. This year the festival features a Buffalo Bill Wild West show -- a kind of fictional look at Buffalo Bill's fictional look at life on the range. There will even be a few gunslingers, though modern-day gunslinger Jim Dunham says the West was never as violent as it is often depicted.Bertossi agrees that every city has an underclass that has the potential to explode with rage, but it is in France that the inequality is most keenly felt. The minor outbreaks of violence in neighbouring Belgium and Germany are not really comparable with its republican blindness to diversity.For 72 hours in Cache Valley, the truth of the legend lives on.

Tim Hrenchir can be reached at (785) 295-1184 or tim.hrenchir@cjonline.com.

Author: Tim Hrenchir Capital-Journal