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What a joke. Here in Chicago, there are over a dozen bars (not restaurants with kids that also serve alcohol) within two miles of my house ignoring the ban. After the first winter, they had to choose to allow smoking during the second winter, or close. All these new customers never came. The trendy places in yuppie areas with a high turnover do ok with the ban. The panhandlers and other undesirables who cannot enter can now freely mingle with bar patrons in front of the bars that comply. Most have a "fine kitty" to which patrons gladly contribute. Family restaurants do ok with faster turnover and a lot of called in "to go" orders. The only complaints come from neighbors of the bars that comply who can vote their ward dry.

to ullrsecho: when did institutional discrimination become "finding a backbone?" i find it pretty sad that people are happy this young woman is being discriminated against by her school. your sexual orientation is not something you can change, and to those of you who say it is a choice, well you're right. it's a choice between being happy and proud of the way god made you or succumbing to bigotry, hiding who you are, and being unhappy. which values do we really want to teach our children? which values go in line with what america stands for? if you think teaching our children to be bigots is the way to go, then i say you're un-american.

I am a life long Republican Conservative who hates Government Intrusion but this is a Public Health Issue. The Citizens of Kansas deserve to be protected from filthy, stinking and health harming secondhand tobacco smoke.

Our Smoke Free Illinois Law is working very well up here and the Kansas Smoke Free Law was long overdue. Congratulations to everyone who fought and worked long and hard for this and my condolences to the big Tobacco Companies.

Go school board! Finally someone found their backbone!!!!

Government power the real health hazard The bandwagon of local smoking bans now steamrolling from sea to sea has nothing to do with protecting people from the "threat of second-hand smoke" but are themselves symptoms of a far more grievous threat: a cancer that has been spreading for decades throughout the body politic, reaching even the tiniest organs of local government. This cancer is the only real hazard involved - the cancer of unlimited government power. The issue is not whether second-hand smoke is a real danger or a phantom menace but rather, if it were harmful, what would be the proper reaction? Should anti-smoking activists satisfy themselves with educating people about the potential danger and allow them to make their own decisions, or should they seize the power of government and force people to make the “right” decision? It seems they've made their choice. Loudly billed as measures that only affect “public places,” they have actually targeted private places: restaurants, bars, nightclubs, shops, and offices - places whose owners are free to set anti-smoking rules or whose customers are free to go elsewhere if they don't like the smoke. Some local bans even harass smokers outdoors. The decision to smoke or to avoid “second-hand” smoke, should be made by each individual according to his own values and assessment of the risks. This is the same kind of decision free people make regarding every aspect of their lives: how much to spend or invest, whom to befriend or love, whether to go to college or get a job, whether to get married or divorced, and so on. All these decisions involve risks; some may have harmful consequences or invite disapproval from others. But the individual must be free to make these decisions because his life belongs to him, not to others, and only his own judgment can guide him through it. Yet when it comes to smoking, this freedom is under attack. Smokers are a minority, pract

Why does KSNT's HD broadcast of the Big 12 Network look like SD quality with pillar bars on the side? 38 The Spot in KC is showing the Big 12 Network in full HD.

Sorry-I thought the schedule you posted was for today-not Friday! Thank you!

How about showing the K-State game when it's ACTUALLY going on? We already know KU won. I'm very disappointed!!!!

What a sleaze bag!