Author: Bob Weeks
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Eastgate CID should not be approved in Wichita
Community Improvement Districts represent using the power of government for private benefit, and the Wichita City Council should not approve them.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday February 28, 2011
Today: Elections tomorrow; Kansas schools can transfer funds?; Ranzau stand on federal funds profiled; Kansas legislative chambers don’t agree; Kansas Economic Freedom Index; citizens, not taxpayers; increasing taxes not seen as solution.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday February 27, 2011
Today: Boeing tanker contract; Kansas Economic Freedom Index; elections this week; civility is lost on the Wisconsin protesters; help Wisconsin Governor Walker; Wichita city council.
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Koch executives respond to fraudulent call
Koch Industries executives say Charles and David Koch will continue to support economic freedom in spite of attacks.
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Kansas government arts supporters: some numbers
In the debate over Kansas government funding of the arts and the elimination of the Kansas Arts Commission, a few things stand out. First, when government-funded arts supporters say that loss of funding will result in the loss of events or institutions, this assumes that nothing changes. It assumes that arts organizations can’t — or…
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Kansas Economic Freedom Index released
Released today: the first version of the Kansas Economic Freedom Index for the 2011 legislative session for the House of Representatives.
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Unions disrupt Kansas Legislature
Kansas union supporters disrupted a session of the Kansas House of Representatives.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday February 21, 2011
Today: Kansas legislature website; legislators on governor’s plan; Wisconsin demonstrations come to Kansas?; Wichita trash; Wichita mayoral forum didn’t go well; Wichita City Council this week; Sedgwick County commission this week.
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Wichita downtown plan to be considered by county commission
Next week the Sedgwick County Commission will consider its approval of the Goody Clancy plan for the revitalization of downtown Wichita.
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Atlas Debrief: It’s only “planning,” not “secrecy”
Will a closed-door meeting of Democrats receive much coverage and scrutiny?
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KNEA, the Kansas teachers union, open to reform?
Do the teachers unions in Kansas, particularly Kansas National Education Association (KNEA), have the best interests of schoolchildren as their primary goal?