Author: Bob Weeks
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Charles G. Koch: Corporate cronyism harms America
When businesses feed at the federal trough, they threaten public support for business and free markets, explains Charles G. Koch.
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Spinning for fundraising, Kansas-style
Kansas liberals accuse Republicans of “spinning” statistics on school funding. Can we look at some actual numbers?
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WichitaLiberty.TV November 17, 2013
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Mary Theroux stopped by the WichitaLiberty.TV studio to talk about a new book about her father. The book’s title is “Willard Garvey: An Epic Life,” referring to the well-known Wichita businessman. He was an influential figure in Wichita, and his business interests spanned the globe.
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Kansas school logic, Goddard-style
Data from KSDE shows that the Goddard school district has increased the number of teachers and other certified employees in recent years, and the corresponding ratios of these employees to students has fallen.
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Wichita economic development, a few issues
The Wichita City Council may choose to consider some issues regarding economic development tomorrow. Or, it may not.
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Common Core Standards explained
Dr. Mary Byrne discusses the background, development and implementation of Common Core State Standards at a recent event in Wichita.
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Kansas progressives on school employment
For more about this issue, see Kansas school employment trends.
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Kansas progressive reasoning
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In Wichita, the case for business welfare
A Wichita company headed by a high-profile executive seeks relief from taxation.
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Government-funded arts, again
Is anyone else offended, as I am, that government taxes us to provide for us the art that politicians, bureaucrats, and their sycophants think we should consume? What type of personality feels entitled to forcibly make these personal decisions for others?
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Kansas school spending, by district
For each school district (and state totals) you can see the trend in each of the three sources of school funding (state, federal, and local) along with the total
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The broken window fallacy revisited
Recently David M. Hart, Ph.D., who is Director of the Online Library of Liberty Project at the Liberty Fund, spoke in Wichita on the topic “Bastiat’s Lessons for the 21st Century: The Broken Window Fallacy Revisited (again and again).”