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Kansas Arts Commission survives
Read more: Kansas Arts Commission survivesThe Kansas Senate votes to override an executive order canceling the Kansas Arts Commission.
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Judges are lawmakers
Read more: Judges are lawmakersIn a democracy like ours, should lawmakers be selected democratically?
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday March 14, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday March 14, 2011Today: 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
Read more: TIF, a Wichita ‘tool,’ might be on the way out in CaliforniaTax 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
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday March 13, 2011Today: 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.
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Kansas’ Huelskamp leads in the House
Read more: Kansas’ Huelskamp leads in the HouseU.S. Representative Tim Huelskamp of Kansas speaks on out-of-control federal spending and the deficit.
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Please feel free to ignore Lou Dobbs
Read more: Please feel free to ignore Lou DobbsTelevision personality Lou Dobbs promotes an economic fallacy: that destruction holds the seeds of economic progress.
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Speculators selfishly provide a public service
Read more: Speculators selfishly provide a public serviceSpeculators are selfish people, acting only to make as much profit as possible for themselves without concern for the welfare of others. By doing so, they provide a valuable public service.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday March 11, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday March 11, 2011Today: Owens said to be blocking judicial selection reform; Cabela’s bank; Scott Walker; outsourcing opposed by Kansas state workers; tilting at wind turbines.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday March 10, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday March 10, 2011Today: Kansas 2011 budget; green jobs; America, welfare nation; politics vs. free markets.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 9, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 9, 2011Today: Kansas legislature website; Kansas smoking ban; fighting government secrecy; Kansas judicial selection; Kansas Education Liberty Act; what … it’s not about the whales?; Wichita council candidates; Common Sense — Revisited author in Wichita.
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Arts supporters make case in Kansas Senate committee
Read more: Arts supporters make case in Kansas Senate committeeArts supporters in Kansas make the case that without government funding, arts would wither away. But for many such organizations government support is a small portion of their budgets. Some, like Symphony in the Flint Hills, earn “profits” much larger than their grants from the state, and ought to return their funding to the taxpayers.