Leavenworth County

One is Don Coover driving his pickup near his farm in Galesburg, Kansas.

The next photo is the Leavenworth County Democratic Headquarters in Leavenworth, Kansas.

And there's also a photo of a farm near Sibley, Iowa.

And all photographs, some of which are full-frame panoramas, are from Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa.

Now, something else I'll say here to defend people who are getting criticized over the STAR Bonds, and I once again am highly critical of the deal, but I've seen some people say, "Well, it's interesting how they left out Leawood, and they left out, like, Jeff Clemm's district." He's the, uh, lieutenant governor running with Ty Masterson.

He's up in Leavenworth County.

But the district is actually...

The stadium is actually part of his district.

I think it's a very dangerous path to go down.

You want to cut taxes? Give a tax cut to everybody in Johnson County or Leavenworth County.

I understand DeSoto's on both of them.

Or in those school districts or those fire districts or library districts, whatever is involved in DeSoto, Kansas.

Why are we not auditing all of these counties? Like these counties that have ballooned their budgets well beyond the rate of inflation, especially in the last five, six years.

Why are they not all being audited by the state? Like, with all due respect to the state auditors, I know you guys are probably fairly busy, but it'd be nice to put you to work on behalf of the taxpayer for things like this, because nothing is a bigger, water cooler topic than, oh my gosh, can you believe my property taxes? And that's true in Wyandotte, that's true in Johnson, lesser extent, you know, Leavenworth County, going west from there to Douglas, down to Miami County.

But it's a conversation across the board.

People want to know what their money is going to and what the heck it's being spent on and why folks are getting priced out of their homes, despite the fact that these counties are collecting more money than they've ever collected.

So I made this video today and in the video, right? So if you look at this, this town, Martin County, Indiana, the population is 10,000 people, 10,000 people, but yet they have spending $800 million in contracts.

Same thing at Leavenworth County, Kansas.

Again, a population of 60, 70,000 people with half a billion dollars in spending.

Same thing in Nebraska.

So all this happening in the span of a couple of days.

And in a news release on Friday, Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said, "Bringing a weapon to school and knowingly making a false report about one can have serious consequences under state law." Number three.

All right.

Let's go to, uh, this tragedy.

Uh, it is obviously a monster data center.

They had a couple of hundred folks out there yesterday protesting that.

The group hopes that their concerns will prompt Leavenworth County leaders to address the issues surrounding the hyperscale data center.

Number six.