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For New York Times, facts about Kochs don’t matter
Read more: For New York Times, facts about Kochs don’t matterFor the New York Times, getting the facts about Koch Industries correct isn’t a concern.
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Education gap on Wichita City Council
Read more: Education gap on Wichita City CouncilBefore January, none of the four men serving on the Wichita City Council had completed a college degree. The three women serving on the council set a better example, with all three holding college degrees.
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Kansas OpenGov: Here’s the Kansas data
Read more: Kansas OpenGov: Here’s the Kansas dataKansasOpenGov.org provides a repository of data about Kansas state and local governments, giving citizens the data they need to hold officials accountable.
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Sedgwick County Commission to consider corporate welfare as economic development
Read more: Sedgwick County Commission to consider corporate welfare as economic developmentThe Sedgwick County Commission will consider embracing corporate welfare as its economic development strategy.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 30, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 30, 2011AFP chief to deliver legislative update. This Friday’s meeting (April 1) of the Wichita Pachyderm club features Derrick Sontag of Americans for Prosperity, Kansas chapter. Sontag will speak about the current session of the Kansas Legislature. This is the last week of the session before a nearly month-long break. For more information click on Wichita…
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday March 29, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday March 29, 2011Today: Follow-up to Koch profile; the decline of Detroit: a lesson for Wichita?; Moran to vote “no” on debt ceiling; golden geese on the move; legislators will have more access to SRS case files; Wichita unemployment rate improving, government planners vs. individuals.
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Wichita airport flights have declined
Read more: Wichita airport flights have declinedContrary to the claims of supporters of the Kansas Affordable Airfares program, the number of flights in Wichita is declining.
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Classical liberalism explained
Read more: Classical liberalism explainedIn a short video, Nigel Ashford of Institute for Humane Studies explains the tenets of classical liberalism.
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Weekly Standard: The left’s obsession with the Koch brothers
Read more: Weekly Standard: The left’s obsession with the Koch brothersMatthew Continetti of the Weekly Standard has written a profile of Charles and David Koch and Koch Industries, focusing on politics and the attacks by the political Left. A key passage in the story explains what those who believe in economic freedom have known all along: If Charles and David Koch really wanted to make…
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday March 28, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday March 28, 2011Today: Wichita Eagle endorsements; Wichita City Council this week; Sedgwick County commission this week; Kansas judicial selection; Kansas Department of Labor computer system; General Electric: no taxes for me; Freeloaders come in all types; New York City may seek waiver from ObamaCare; Economic freedom and a better life; government investment specialty.
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KPERS problems must be confronted
Read more: KPERS problems must be confrontedThis week the Kansas Legislature may work on the problems facing the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System, or KPERS. Past legislatures have failed to enact reforms necessary to put this system on a sound financial footing, and the legislature has shown itself incapable of managing a system where it’s easy to pass on the problem…
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Reform health care so it really works
Read more: Reform health care so it really worksOne year after the passage of major health care legislation, Harvard economist Jeff Miron says more reform is still needed.