Category: Kansas state government
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How would higher Kansas taxes help?
Candidates in Kansas who promise more spending ought to explain just how higher taxes will — purportedly — help the Kansas economy.
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Kansas Democrats: They don’t add it up — or they don’t tell us
Kansas Democrats (and some Republicans) are campaigning on some very expensive programs, and they’re aren’t adding it up for us.
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Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on myths and reality
Myth vs Reality: What the media isn’t telling you.
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Video in the Kansas Senate
A plan to increase visibility of the Kansas Senate is a good start, and needs to go just one or two steps farther.
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Kansas government spending
Kansas government spending, starting in 1967. Total spending and per capita spending, adjusted for inflation. Also, spending as percent of Kansas GDP.
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Kansas Supreme Court: Making the law
Do the justices on the Kansas Supreme Court make new law? Yes, and here is an example.
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Kansas tax receipts
Kansas tax receipts by category, presented in an interactive visualization.
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Selecting judges in Kansas
Appellate court judges make new law, and Kansas has the most elitist and least democratic supreme court selection system in the country.
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Kansas construction employment
Tip to the Wichita Eagle editorial board: When a lobbying group feeds you statistics, try to learn what they really mean.
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From Pachyderm: Martin Hawver on Kansas Politics
From the Wichita Pachyderm Club this week: Martin Hawver, dean of Kansas Statehouse press corps, briefed members and guests on the state of Kansas politics.
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Kansas tax receipts
Kansas tax receipts by category, presented in an interactive visualization.
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Which Kansas Governor made these proposals?
Cutting spending for higher education, holding K through 12 spending steady, sweeping highway money to the general fund, reducing aid to local governments, spending down state reserves, and a huge projected budget gap. Who and when is the following newspaper report referencing?