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Former Congressman McEwen endorses Kelsey, talks about economics
Read more: Former Congressman McEwen endorses Kelsey, talks about economicsThis week former Ohio Representative Bob McEwen appeared in Wichita on behalf of Kansas Senator Dick Kelsey and his campaign for the Republican nomination for the United States House of Representatives from the fourth district of Kansas. At a breakfast meeting, McEwen said that his state — Ohio — needs Dick Kelsey in Congress, and…
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AFP releases Kansas education spending policy primer
Read more: AFP releases Kansas education spending policy primerAmericans for Prosperity-Kansas has released a three-page document that details some facts about Kansas spending on schools and education. “There have been claims that funding for schools has ‘returned to pre-Montoy levels,’” said AFP-Kansas state director Derrick Sontag. “However the policy primer clearly shows that K-12 education has realized nearly a $1 billion increase in…
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‘MyWichita’ a useful service
Read more: ‘MyWichita’ a useful serviceThe City of Wichita has a feature on its website that lets citizens receive timely and useful information by email, instead of requiring citizens to continually check the site for updates
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Kansas school funding email confuses, misleads
Read more: Kansas school funding email confuses, misleadsKansas Liberty is reporting that an email message making the rounds is based on incorrect and misleading information.
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Oklahoma City sales tax passes; model for Wichita
Read more: Oklahoma City sales tax passes; model for WichitaOn Tuesday, voters in Oklahoma City passed a new sales tax to fund downtown improvements. It passed by a vote of 54 percent to 46 percent. Wichitans can count on a similar sales tax being proposed for whatever projects the year-long downtown planning process calls for.
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‘Kansas Reporter’ launched
Read more: ‘Kansas Reporter’ launchedThis week the Kansas Policy Institute announced the launch of KansasReporter, a new news service covering Kansas government. Combined with some other relatively new sources of news, analysis, and commentary — Kansas Liberty, Kansas Watchdog, State of the State, Kansas and a few older sources like Kansas Meadowlark and Voice For Liberty in Wichita –…
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Peterjohn presses taxpayer protection platform through Sedgwick County Commission
Read more: Peterjohn presses taxpayer protection platform through Sedgwick County CommissionAt today’s meeting of the Sedgwick County Commission, commissioners revised the county’s 2010 legislative platform, adding important and groundbreaking taxpayer protection to the platform. The split vote lets voters know without a doubt where commissioners stand on taxpayer protection issues.
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Climate change information site launched by Wichita geophysicist
Read more: Climate change information site launched by Wichita geophysicistWichita Geophysicist Dennis Hedke has compiled a great deal of useful information that he uses in making presentations on the science, economics, and politics of climate change and global warming alarmism. Now he’s compiled his material and made it available on his new website HeadOnIssues.org.
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Left’s obsession with funding diverts attention from issues and its own funding
Read more: Left’s obsession with funding diverts attention from issues and its own fundingOne of the duties of being a blogger on the left is constant disparaging of the source of funding or leadership of your opposition. All done, of course, while ignoring the painfully obvious problems with your own. As an example, a recent Boston Globe column — its title is In glitzy shadows, a health reform…
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More problems with Kansas judicial selection noted
Read more: More problems with Kansas judicial selection notedKansas University law professor Stephen J. Ware has researched and written extensively about the processes that states use to select justices to their high courts. Kansas, as it turns out, is at the extreme end of the spectrum of the methods the states use. … Now a legal writer has made an argument that our…
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Kansas legislative duo to update Pachyderms
Read more: Kansas legislative duo to update PachydermsKansas Representatives Don Myers (Republican from Derby) and Pete DeGraaf (Republican from Mulvane) will jointly present “An update on the financial status of Kansas” at the Wichita Pachyderm Club on Friday December 11.