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Cause of Kansas budget gap is spending
Read more: Cause of Kansas budget gap is spendingKansas Governor Mark Parkinson says Kansas has a $400 million budget gap, and he’s proposed increasing sales and cigarette taxes to close it. … If we could hold spending steady for next year — and remember that inflation is running at very low levels — we could get by without a tax increase. If the…
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With downtown Wichita hotels doing well, why the need for subsidy?
Read more: With downtown Wichita hotels doing well, why the need for subsidy?At a recent presentation by Wichita’s downtown revitalization planning firm Goody Clancy, data was presented that is at odds with the city’s plans.
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Real estate development to be topic at Pachyderm Club
Read more: Real estate development to be topic at Pachyderm ClubAt the Wichita Pachyderm Club this Friday, Wichita real estate developers Steve Clark and Johnny Stevens will speak on “The Waterfront, A History of a Private Development.”
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More questions surround WaterWalk hotel proposal
Read more: More questions surround WaterWalk hotel proposalYesterday the Wichita Eagle printed a letter from citizen activist John Todd concerning the proposal for City of Wichita subsidy for a hotel in the downtown WaterWalk development. This is the unabridged version of the letter. In 2002 elected city officials leased a prime 20-acre parcel of city owned downtown land known as the East…
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‘Keeping Kansas Conservative’ forum with Joe the Plumber, Todd Tiahrt, Mary Pilcher-Cook
Read more: ‘Keeping Kansas Conservative’ forum with Joe the Plumber, Todd Tiahrt, Mary Pilcher-CookOn Friday, January 29, 2010, the Great American Forum Steering Committee will host its fifth public forum.
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At Wichita city council, does the field tilt?
Read more: At Wichita city council, does the field tilt?At the January 12 meeting of the Wichita City Council, several citizens and one council member addressed the “unlevel playing field” and its implications for development in downtown Wichita.
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Kansas news digest
Read more: Kansas news digestNews from alternative media around Kansas for January 25, 2010.
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Concerning Wichita’s WaterWalk, I have a few questions
Read more: Concerning Wichita’s WaterWalk, I have a few questionsAs the City of Wichita decides whether to offer subsidy to a hotel in the downtown WaterWalk development, there are a few questions that deserve answers. Most of these questions are my own, but some are questions that people have told me I should ask.
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Kansas Senate blocks new journalism
Read more: Kansas Senate blocks new journalismDoes the application for press credentials to the Kansas Senate contain questions designed to limit or restrict the types of organizations that apply?
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Kansas alternative media discussed on Kansas Week
Read more: Kansas alternative media discussed on Kansas WeekAccess to the Kansas Senate by alternative media is discussed on the KPTS Television public affairs program Kansas Week. Bob Weeks is the guest. Tim Brown is the host.
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Dale Swenson on Kansas tax exemptions
Read more: Dale Swenson on Kansas tax exemptionsDo Kansas business tax exemptions benefit only business at great cost to the state? Member of the Kansas House of Representatives Dale Swenson thinks so, according to a recent letter written by him that appeared in the Wichita Eagle. He cites a Kansas sales tax exemption on the purchase of hearing aids, something Swenson says…
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Global Warming: Hoax or Reality?
Read more: Global Warming: Hoax or Reality?Wichita’s Dennis Hedke will appear at two forums at Johnson County Community College that will explore the topic of climate change. The documentary film Not Evil Just Wrong — the antidote to Al Gore and global warming extremism — will be shown, too. My review of this film is at ‘Not Evil Just Wrong’ a…