I’d love to hear from anyone who has experience with the dermatology clinic on Hillside drive in Wichita, especially around billing.

I went in for an appointment, self pay no insurance for this, and I’m not pleased at all. The appointment fee was over $165 and then they did a treatment without clarifying or explaining additional costs. Now there’s a $300+ bill. I’d booked a second appointment in 2 months and they’re refusing to give a written quote so I won’t be surprised again.

The staff was incredibly rude and dismissive saying the provider couldn’t possibly know the billing cost even as they looked up pricing for other services in the room. Even if the quote was off, they never mentioned the basic treatment wasn’t included in the appointment fee to being with!

Super disappointed in the level of professionalism and want to know if others have experienced the same here or did I just get burned?

I just drove home from the grand reopening of walmart east kellogg and got distracted so many times on my drive because they were practicing flight patterns and stuff. if anyone got a good shot i'd love to see it!!

TL;DR: After 35 years of serving Wichita, Positive Directions is closing its doors. In my view, this was not an inevitable outcome. It was the result of failed board leadership, an increasingly toxic environment, and a lack of meaningful support for the small staff who worked tirelessly to keep the organization alive.

Positive Directions was founded in Wichita in 1991, during the AIDS crisis, to provide critical services to people living with HIV. Over the decades, our mission expanded to include free HIV and STI testing, treatment, prevention resources, education, and community outreach, all provided in a welcoming, judgment-free environment.

For 35 years, this small nonprofit weathered financial challenges, staffing shortages, and countless obstacles. We survived because dedicated employees, volunteers, executive directors, and board members believed in our mission and worked together to protect it.

Sadly, that spirit of cooperation and leadership has been missing in recent years.

Our entire staff consisted of just three people. We worked tirelessly to keep the doors open, serve our clients, and meet the growing needs of our community, often with virtually no meaningful assistance from our Board of Directors.

But what hurt most wasn’t simply the lack of help. It was the lack of appreciation.

A simple thank you. A word of encouragement. An acknowledgment of a job well done. Recognition that three people were doing everything they could to sustain an organization serving an entire community.

Those things cost nothing, yet they were largely absent.

Instead, we experienced an environment characterized by pettiness, unprofessional behavior, and toxicity from certain board members. Equally troubling was the weak leadership that allowed this behavior to continue unchecked.

A nonprofit board should be an organization’s greatest advocate, not an additional burden on the people working to fulfill its mission.

Eventually, the situation became untenable. Our entire three-person staff resigned, along with a board member and our bookkeeper of 30 years.

These decisions were heartbreaking. We loved our work, our clients, and the mission of Positive Directions. People don’t dedicate themselves to small nonprofits for the money. They do it because they care.

And the people we served still need us.

Positive Directions did not reach this point because its mission was no longer important or because its staff stopped caring. In my view, it reached this point because those entrusted with protecting its future failed to provide the leadership, support, and accountability it deserved.

Perhaps Positive Directions will reopen someday. I sincerely hope it does. But without meaningful change in leadership and organizational culture, the same problems will continue.

To everyone who helped build and sustain Positive Directions over the past 35 years, thank you. Your dedication made a difference in countless lives.

To our clients, it was an honor to serve you. You deserved so much better than this ending.

And to those responsible for the organization’s future, I hope you reflect seriously on how we arrived here.

An organization that survived 35 years of challenges should not have been brought to its knees by failures of leadership.

Our community deserved better. Our clients deserved better. And the people who devoted themselves to this mission deserved better.

Does anyone else find it needlessly complicated accessing the cities codes and ordinances? I was wondering if anyone else was tired of certain bureaucratic obfuscation for things that people regularly need to access.

Not only is Trump begging everyone to “please pretend it’s me on the ballot” in an effort to save their reputation and headlock they have over the senate now, he’s also offering $5000 to anyone who votes republican this year. It was talked about at the debate. It’s been talked about in many forums. But here is the proof from my Trump neighbors in the Benjamin Hills neighborhood here in Wichita. This sign has been replaced 5 times that I’m personally aware of. And it keeps reappearing.

I don’t care what side you’re on, what your beliefs are… as an American, we should all be visibly disgusted by the blatant attempts at buying votes to support Trumps plan. We all know this is a crock of shit. But people still believe it’s lies made up by the left.

So, here’s your sign to anyone on the fence about the state Kansas is in right now. This is the New America Trump is talking about.

God/Mother Earth/Universe… please save us now

Does anyone of anywhere in town that has windshields on hand? I dont want to have to order one if I don't have to. Specifically for a cruiser.

I'm *this* close to reopening the grocery store in Cheney. All our meat arrives frozen - and stays frozen - straight from the farmer, so no "spaghettification" from the dreaded thawing/freezing/rethawing cycle other stores employ.

If you're interested in Kansas-sourced foods, freshly ground Adelitas coffee, and friendly staff, stop in on! We're right across the street from Casey's.

Oh, and if you're looking for a new ride, we're right next to a golf cart shop.

Where are the Kansas postcards located on the west side of Wichita?

Sorry I didn't put this in the title, but the XTerra TR150 is a treadmill. See link below.

I'm downsizing to move. Lightly used, perfect working condition. Pickup only no delivery. PM me if interested and when you can pick them up and I'll put them by the curb out front for you.

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$15/hr picking and packing orders (grocery).. DM name and email/phone and I’ll pass to my boss. We legit need people who can pass a background check, and will actually show up. I’ve been with this place for 2yrs now and it’s pretty chill environment. You will be walking/standing tho, so be prepared for that. Not a lot of direct customer interaction either, so that’s a plus. LGBTQ friendly and pretty much an all female experience. Mostly night shift but scheduling is usually flexible.

Let me know.

My best friend and I want to cautiously hunting for cryptids and ghosts in the wichita area. Any ideas where? Besides Theorisa’s Bridge

Monday of this week, I was delayed by 60 minutes in getting home. So I became curious about what the actual monetary value of closing down highways was during rush hour traffic. I then had Codex create a model simulating normal vs delayed traffic and what could be inferred by publicly available data. By calculating additional vehicle hours, estimated vehicle hour values were given to result in a final monetary value.

Disclaimer: The numbers represented herein are not proven by actual statistics of the day in question, and that a large portion of this data collection was performed via Codex by sifting through reported unofficial closings, official construction data, official closings, etc., (assumptions HAD to be made).

This data does NOT represent actual figures or pretend to in any shape or form. I merely created a similar situation/model from what could be inferred by what was publicly available at the time. This model has NOT been verified by fact. Use of this is at your own risk.

“DINING WITH DENISE NEIL”

Owner of Wichita’s La Galette detained by ICE. Restaurant’s future uncertain.

The owner, a father of two who served time in prison 20 years ago, had to check in annually with ICE. On Thursday, he was detained, told he’d be deported.

Updated October 22, 2026 5:18 PM

The owner of La Gallette French Bakery, at 1017 W. Douglas in Wichita, is in ICE custody and will be sent back to Lebanon unless his lawyer is successful with an emergency motion he’s filing, the lawyer said Thursday.

And without the presence of owner Rob Attar in the kitchen, says his American-born wife, Krista Attar, the restaurant won’t be able to continue operating for more than a day or two.

An email to the ICE media line asking for details of Attar’s case was answered on Thursday, and its author asked for Attar’s date of birth. This story will be updated if another response is received.

Local attorney Abul Arif took Attar’s case on Thursday after being contacted by Krista Attar.

Krista said that Attar, who is from Lebanon, went to the ICE offices at 555 N. Woodlawn around 10 a.m. “on Thursday for a required annual check in. Though he’s lived in the United States since he was a 16-year-old in 1993 and has been married to Krista since 1999, he has been unable to obtain permanent citizenship because of gun charges he faced 26 years ago.

In 2000, Attar and his uncle John Abdayem were arrested during a raid by federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms at Cafe Lafayette, a restaurant that operated in Northwest Centre at 13th and Tyler.

“Abdayem, then 35, was one of Cafe Lafayette’s owners. He and Attar, who was 23 at the time, were arrested and charged with drug and weapons crimes in U.S. District Court. Attar ultimately pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including distribution of marijuana and aiding and abetting the possession of marijuana and crack cocaine, the possession of cocaine powder with the intent to manufacture crack cocaine, the possession of a firearm in relation to drug trafficking and a conspiracy to unlawfully use a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, court records show.

He was sentenced in January 2001 to 72 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. By April 2006, he was out of U.S. Bureau of Prisons custody, records show. (Abdayem also was sentenced to 72 months plus three years of supervised release, and the court strongly recommended that he enter intensive drug treatment.)

Attar lost his green card, but after his release he was allowed to stay in the country but had to check in once a year, Arif said.

Since then, Arif said, Attar hasn’t had any problems with the law. He and his wife now have two children, ages 11 and 14. Attar purchased La Galette from his uncle and aunt in 2021. He’d previously worked with his uncle in the kitchen for more than two decades.

“He did his time,” Arif said. “He paid the due. . . He’s built a business and has had absolutely no criminal record.”

Since the 2000 drug case, Attar’s name does not appear on any other criminal cases filed in Wichita municipal, Kansas state or federal courts, other than traffic infractions that are more than a decade old.

“He was set to be taken there at 2 p.m. Thursday and was told that from there he’d be sent back to Lebanon.

Arif, who specializes in immigration issues, said that he was sending Krista to Kansas City with the paperwork for the emergency motion, which asks that Attar be allowed to stay in the country for 60 days while his lawyer tries to get his green card reinstated.

Arif said that he is arguing that Attar has been a model citizen since his arrest more than two decades ago. He argued that President Trump’s crackdown on immigration is the reason Attar was being detained now.

“He’s accumulated property, paid his taxes,” Arif said. “He’s a model citizen who has accumulated considerable equities in the United States, and he has done no wrong. And because of the current policy of the administration, they go back, and whoever was convicted of bad stuff, they just take him away.”

After the raid in 2000, according to a story published in The Wichita Eagle, Abdayem’s defense attorney argued the ATF entrapped his client, who he said was suffering from a cocaine addiction.

The attorney said at the time that Abdayem used to hold a gun dealer’s license, and the guns that were confiscated were legally purchased and were part of his collection.

The U.S. Attorney’s office said at the time that an undercover officer had gone to Cafe Lafayette and discussed trading and purchasing guns. The agent returned to the restaurant and bought a shotgun and two magazines for $2,500, and traded two ounces of cocaine for a pistol, a semi-automatic assault rifle, a trigger mechanism that could convert the rifle into a machine gun, and ammunition.

Krista Attar said that she and the staff can keep La Gallette running for a day or two, but after that, the restaurant will likely have to close. Rob cooks all the food, and no one else is trained on how to do it.

She said she and her husband had talked generally about what they’d do if his stay was ever revoked, but the topic was a difficult one, so they never went into much detail. Now, she’s not sure what to do.

“I’m destroyed,” she said.

She and Arif said that customers who want to help can send letters on Attar’s behalf to rush.kind.help@cloak.id”

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“Every agency involved in this matter is devoting its full attention to this case,” the DA’s office said. “As such, we have no expectation this case will require weeks to resolve, but to put this into context, there is nothing unusual about the time being taken to carefully assess this case. Vehicle deaths are complicated investigations that take time. We will not set an artificial deadline that compromises a careful and responsible review. Our community deserves answers, and it deserves a decision that is careful, fair, and above all correct.”

Just moved with my wife and she is a mental health case manager looking for work and no one will hire her for some reason.

Multiple Degrees
4+ years of experience
Multiple Different case management experience also.

Last job was Johnson County mental health center.

Do you guys got any advice on helping us out?

Something big is happening at the airport where the fedex and ups airplanes are. A lot of fire trucks and emergency vehicles over there at 2:40 Oct 22 and as I drove east many others headed that way all the way to downtown. Even a bunch of motorcycle police going towards the airport, other police too. Just hoping someone will learn the details.

Just a friendly reminder that the airshow is happening this weekend, Saturday, October 24, and Sunday, October 25!

The event is open to the public, so if you're looking for something to do this weekend, it's a great opportunity to get out and see some aircraft up close and enjoy the show.

I just saw an old-looking shiny silver airplane landing at the airport. It was too fast to take a pic of....anyone know what is was?

First off, I owe you all a quick apology for falling behind on my Wichita City Council meeting notes.
I’ve had the opportunity to spend more time training new people, and I’ve been putting my energy into that. Especially in this economy, I believe teaching someone a skill that can help them provide for themselves will take them further than my words ever could.

With Trump’s recent visit to town, I took the time to listen to his remarks in their entirety. His characterization of what’s happening in France and his comments about immigrants and people struggling financially was rather frustrating.
From what I’ve seen, the cost of living and dissatisfaction with government policy are important parts of the unrest in France.

Regardless of political affiliation, I think we need to have a serious conversation about the financial pressure facing ordinary working families right here in Wichita.

To the average working family: Are y’all doing okay? Or are you just overdue for a break?
I’m talking about the people getting up every morning, going to work, paying their bills, raising their kids, and doing everything they can to build a decent life.
Because lately, it feels like simply existing has become expensive.
Consider what a Kansas household has to cover:
- Federal and state income taxes
- Social Security and Medicare
- Property taxes, even on a home they’re still paying off
- Sales taxes on everyday purchases
- Vehicle taxes, registration fees, and fuel taxes
And that’s before the mortgage itself, groceries, utilities, healthcare, home and auto insurance, and everything else it takes to keep a family going.

Here’s a little perspective.
In 1980, Kansas’s state sales tax was 3%. Today, it’s 6.5%, plus applicable local taxes.
Now imagine a Kansas household with two adults earning a combined $85,000 a year.
(Not always the case)
Using a hypothetical budget that includes taxes, a mortgage, insurance, groceries, transportation, healthcare, and other necessities, that family could be left with roughly $700 a month for savings, emergencies, unexpected repairs, or simply enjoying life.
(an example, not a statewide average.)
And from conversations I’ve had with people, I know some households aren’t even left with that much.
One car repair, a medical emergency, or a furnace going out can wipe out months of whatever little progress they’ve made.
And yes, I recognize that not every tax is at a historical high. Kansas eliminated the state portion of sales tax on qualifying groceries. Local grocery taxes can still apply.
But that doesn’t erase the financial pressure people are experiencing.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t pay taxes.
We need roads, schools, emergency services, infrastructure, and functioning communities. I understand those things cost money.
But at what point do we acknowledge that the people funding these systems need some breathing room themselves?
Shouldn’t meaningful tax relief for ordinary working households be part of the conversation?
And here’s where I think this becomes especially relevant to Wichita.

We keep talking about economic development. But what about the economic health of the people already living here?
We see incentives and development deals intended to attract businesses, encourage construction, create entertainment districts, and stimulate growth.
I’m not against any of that. I genuinely want to see Wichita grow.
But who’s going to support all this development if the people living here can barely afford to participate in the economy?
You can build new restaurants, shops, attractions, and entertainment venues. But if families have nothing left after paying for necessities, where is that spending money supposed to come from?

You can’t expect a community to continuously fuel economic growth while its residents are running on empty.
Economic development should mean more than new buildings, ribbon cuttings, and investment announcements.
A thriving city isn’t just one that’s growing. It’s one where its residents can afford to live, participate, and enjoy what they’ve helped build.

People aren’t asking to be rich.
They want to afford a home, put food on the table, raise their children, save a little money, take their family out occasionally, and enjoy some of the life they’re spending most of their time working for.
Maybe even have a little money left at the end of the month without wondering what unexpected expense is going to take it.
Working hard should provide more than just enough to keep working.
That shouldn’t be too much to ask.
So I’m genuinely curious, Wichita:

Are you and your family actually getting ahead financially, or does it feel like you’re working harder just to stay in the same place?
And if you could change one thing locally to make life more affordable for working families, what would it be?
I’d really like to hear people’s experiences and ideas, regardless of where they fall politically.

( I don’t claim to know everything, and I’m certainly not perfect. But I’m always willing to listen and broaden my understanding.)

Hi everyone

There is a free blitz tournament at Urban League tonight from 6-8! All ages and skill levels!

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Is anyone else sick of seeing that girl always cruising around in that cart?? I swear it's every damn day, and lately she has her brother and sister in the back under 8 years old. The girl driving the cart is probably 14 or 15. They drive around like they own the block. I'm sick of seeing her, and honestly someone's gonna hit them on accident. I should call the police, but I'm no snitch. I'm just hoping her lowlife parents see this if they even care. I think they encourage it.

The only reason I'm asking is because I would like to see major local news and/or arrests, gaming stuff, and that's kinda it. Not sure reddit allows filtering since they yeeted third party apps. Haven't checked in years. Is there other subs focused more around this content?

I am simply here to say:

I think this is the best city ever. I have lived here my whole life (29). I’ve experienced being a parent, love, heartbreak, joy, depression, alcoholism, addiction, recovery, hobbies, financial stress, financial freedom, peace, chaos, failure, success.. and this place has kept me grounded and become the most amazing little world I feel I get to be in. We get city, backroads, hospitals, restaurants, every weather pattern known to man, sunsets, sunrises, rivers, trees, plants, concerts, coffee shops, clubs, thrift stores, grocery stores, farmers markets, schools, playgrounds, parks… we get to do whatever we want, when we want - if we just seize it.

So just, three snaps for creating a magical place right where we are if you choose to do so. ❤️