Author: Bob Weeks
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Because arts are important, government funding should be avoided
The more important to our culture we believe the arts to be, the stronger the case for getting government out of its funding.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday March 22, 2011
Today: Progressive government; identity theft possible; is the automobile this bad?; mayor recalled; public union issues.
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Kansas migration trends
The migration trend of Kansas households is improving, but the trend of income is not.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday March 21, 2011
Today: Wichita City Council this week; government the problem; budget worse than thought; Detroit turns schools over to charters; The State and the Intellectuals; global warming panic explained.
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Quantitative easing: another round?
Another round of expansionist monetary policy in the form of quantitative easing 3 could be on the way.
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Who benefits, loses from regulation?
Who benefits and loses from increased regulation of greenhouse gases?
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Kansas Arts Commission survives
The Kansas Senate votes to override an executive order canceling the Kansas Arts Commission.
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Judges are lawmakers
In a democracy like ours, should lawmakers be selected democratically?
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday March 14, 2011
Today: Kansas Democrats: EITC cut is a tax increase; historian to visit Wichita; Kansas parents’ property tax challenge is dismissed.
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TIF, a Wichita ‘tool,’ might be on the way out in California
Tax increment financing (TIF), a key component for the financing of the revitalization of downtown Wichita, might be on the way out in California.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday March 13, 2011
Today: Wichita city council this week; how attitudes can differ; private property and the price system; toward a free market in education; are lottery tickets like a state-owned casino?; money, banking and the Federal Reserve; Wichita-area legislators to meet public; Pompeo to meet with public; losing the brains race; Teachers unions explained.