Category: Kansas state government
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Analysis: The Sebelius Court
Somehow, notice of a few things slipped by. First is the excellent Kansas Supreme Court Blog. I don’t know who is writing this blog, but it contains a great deal of information about its narrow topic. Second: From this blog I learned that the lawyer that Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius recently appointed to the Kansas…
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Kansas Has Too Much Local Government
Following is a press release from the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy regarding the high number of government employees in Kansas. This problem has been known for some time. In 2005, Alan Cobb of Americans For Prosperity noted that in the past five years “Kansas has lost 16,700 private sector jobs while the government…
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Here’s Why Kansans Need to Take Control
As an introduction to my post What Impact do Kansas Voters Have on Judges?, Todd Epp of Kansas Watch writes “Um, this lawyer suggests, hopefully none?!” My post mentions Kansas University Law Professor Stephen Ware‘s call for an end to the lawyer-dominated process of selection Kansas judges. Mr. Epp’s reaction — and he is a…
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Kansas Legislator Rosters Not Ready
At the Kansas Legislature website, two useful pages to visit are the roster of house and senate members. These pages hold the names of all the members, along with their email addresses and a link to the page for each member. As of today, these pages aren’t ready for this year’s legislative session, which started…
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Kansas Governor Not Facing Reality of Budget Crisis
Kansas Liberty reports that the balancing act performed by Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius on the fiscal year 2009 budget is, well, a little off-kilter. (Fiscal 2009 is the current budget year, ending on June 30, 2009). In the post Sebelius’ new budget misses the target by $50 million we learn that relying on budget numbers…
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A Look at Some Kansas Budget Adjustments
Page 3 of a document titled “Overview Presentation FY 2010 Governor’s Budget Report” (download it from this page: www.budget.ks.gov/gbr.htm) holds two tables: one titled “State General Fund Outlook — Without Solutions,” and a second with solutions. One of the differences between the two tables is a line in the second table captioned “Governor’s Revenue Adjustments”…
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Why the Kansas budget is in trouble
Why is the Kansas budget in such bad shape? Not enough taxation? Too much spending?
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Kansas Budget Lacks Solutions for Reform, says AFP’s Sontag
TOPEKA — The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity — Kansas released the following statement in response to the Governor’s FY 2009 and FY 2010 budget proposal: “The budget proposal released today offers no real solutions for budget reform, leaving it up to the Legislature to demonstrate some leadership at this important time,” said AFP…
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Not All Agree With New Kansas Energy Plan
Currie Meyers of the Kansas Federalist has a few issues with Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius‘ energy plan. I can’t link directly to Meyers’ article, so I’ll reproduce it in its entirety here. Sebelius New Energy Plan Lacks Energy Governor Kathleen Sebelius unveiled weak and pathetic energy proposals that she hopes will help Kansas capitalize on…