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Wichita city council discusses economic development incentives
Read more: Wichita city council discusses economic development incentivesLast week a Wichita company that’s expanding made an application for industrial revenue bonds and accompanying property tax abatements. The company’s application wasn’t timely, and for that reason is not likely to receive the requested help. The discussion surrounding the item provides insight into city council members’ ideas about the role of the city in…
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Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau should follow Kansas Open Records Act
Read more: Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau should follow Kansas Open Records ActMr. Mayor, members of the council, I’m recommending that the city not renew its contract with the Go Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau until that organization decides to follow the Kansas Open Records Act.
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McEwen to present seminars in Wichita
Read more: McEwen to present seminars in WichitaFormer U.S. Congressman Bob McEwen will be in Wichita next week to present two seminars. McEwen, an advocate for pro-family interests and free-market economics, is sponsored by the Senator Dick Kelsey for Congresscampaign.
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Kansas news digest
Read more: Kansas news digestNews from alternative media around Kansas for November 30, 2009.
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Moore decision not to run causes waves
Read more: Moore decision not to run causes wavesThe news that Kansas third district congressman Dennis Moore has decided not to seek reelection is a week old now, but the ramifications will take a while to shake out. As Martin Hawver put it in a recent Capitol Rail: “We don’t know who, but we’re imagining, somewhere in Johnson County, there is a poor,…
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Jim Anderson stump speech received enthusiastically
Read more: Jim Anderson stump speech received enthusiasticallyTo an appreciative Saturday evening audience, candidate for the Republican party nomination for United States Congress from the fourth district of Kansas Jim Anderson laid out in detail his political positions and his plans for Congress.
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Articles of interest
Read more: Articles of interestEducation, health care, Kansas school funding, unintended consequences.
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Solution to drug problem to be presented in Wichita
Read more: Solution to drug problem to be presented in WichitaIllegal drug use and the accompanying war on drugs is a huge human problem in the United States. It’s time, according to some, for a radical rethinking of this situation. A group of current and former warriors from the frontlines of the war on drugs has such a perspective, and their solution is not what…
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Jack Cole of LEAP to address Pachyderms
Read more: Jack Cole of LEAP to address PachydermsOn Friday December 4, the Wichita Pachyderm Club presents Jack A. Cole. Cole is executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).
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In Wichita, Free Market Economics 101 to be held
Read more: In Wichita, Free Market Economics 101 to be heldOn Monday, the Wichita Chapter of Americans For Prosperity is holding an informative meeting to learn more about free market economics and its application.
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Kansas school spending advocates: no alternative views welcome
Read more: Kansas school spending advocates: no alternative views welcomeOn Monday and Tuesday, the Kansas House Appropriations Committee held hearings, and big topics were Kansas school funding and the Kansas budget. The reaction by school spending advocates to two speakers is illustrative of the highly divisive nature of public school operation and funding in Kansas.
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Play Powerball for the good of the Kansas budget?
Read more: Play Powerball for the good of the Kansas budget?In an explanation presented to the Kansas House Appropriations Committee of how the Kansas state budget was balanced by Governor Mark Parkinson Monday, there’s a line item “Powerball income tax windfall.” The amount is $3.1 million, the result of a Kansan having won the multi-state jackpot not long ago.