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Kansas Bioscience Authority
Read more: Kansas Bioscience AuthorityThe release of a forensics audit of the Kansas Bioscience Authority coupled with two days of joint committee hearings revealed an independent government agency out of control, an audit that draws conclusions described as sanitized of important details, and an agency and legislative supporters who believe that now, all is well at the KBA.
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Kansas committee asks if KBA audit did enough to expose problems
Read more: Kansas committee asks if KBA audit did enough to expose problemsMembers of a Kansas joint committee expressed concern that a forensic audit of the Kansas Bioscience Authority was not broad enough and that deliberate deletion of data from a KBA computer left questions unanswered.
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Guide to Kansas legislative documents
Read more: Guide to Kansas legislative documentsKansas state government has many websites and documents that help understand the Kansas Legislature. But some documents and data are missing.
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In Kansas, the billion-dollar question
Read more: In Kansas, the billion-dollar questionThe Fair Tax could provide a solution to problems in Kansas with the budget and our economic prospects, writes Larry Halloran.
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Congress should reserve the right to protect our wireless future
Read more: Congress should reserve the right to protect our wireless futureAs the expert agency, the FCC is right to ask for some flexibility with the wireless spectrum auction design process. Congress, however, should reserve its right to protect our wireless future by preventing FCC overreach and ensure that all companies can participate in the auction process. It’s only the fair choice to make.
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End the Economic Development Administration — Now
Read more: End the Economic Development Administration — NowWhen proposing to eliminate even wasteful government agencies, the bureaucracy will strike back, writes U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo.
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Wichita ethics kerfuffle quashed; lessons learned
Read more: Wichita ethics kerfuffle quashed; lessons learnedWhat lessons have Wichitans learned from a recent city hall episode involving ethics?
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Buffalo: A Template for Wichita?
Read more: Buffalo: A Template for Wichita?Does the decline of Buffalo hold lessons for other cities?
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday January 16, 2012
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday January 16, 2012Today: Tax cuts = extra income?; Revenue-neutral tax reform; Peterjohn to speak; Southwest to fly to Wichita; Kansas economic development incentives; Story is broken.
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Kansas Speaker: Schools don’t spend all they have
Read more: Kansas Speaker: Schools don’t spend all they haveBased on choices that many school districts have made in response to legislation giving them flexibility to spend fund balances, Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives Mike O’Neal questions whether a school funding crisis actually exists.
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Kansas spending is the problem
Read more: Kansas spending is the problemKansas Governor Sam Brownback’s tax reform plans are designed to be revenue neutral, when the state should be looking to collect and spend less.
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For Wichita city hall, ethics again an issue
Read more: For Wichita city hall, ethics again an issueReports that the Wichita city manager’s fiancee is involved with a group seeking approval from the city for a project indicate that the city’s perspective on ethics could use reform.