[Non-Sequitur]

According to friends of mine at Cessna, the Wichita area has one of the lowest rates of unemployment in the nation. Low cost of living too, ideal for young families.

The down side, of course, is that you're living in Wichita.

Wichita lives and dies with the aviation industry. Current unemploymnent is in the mid-5 percent range, not too high compared to the national average but higher than other areas in the state. For a while in 2002 the unemployment rate was pushing 9 percent.

[Clemenza]

I would never live there myself. I find Seattle too boring as it is. Besides, Wichita is hot as hell in the summer, cold as the arctic in the winter as well out there on the prairie.

The point is, Kansas (whether Wichita or in the interior) is not some Dorothy Lange photograph of impoverished inbred hillbillies. Mr. Frank is an embarassment to the state.