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Questions for Wichita school district
Read more: Questions for Wichita school districtAt a luncheon event today, leaders of USD 259, the Wichita public school district, made short presentations and took questions from the audience. I didn’t get a chance to ask a question, but here are the questions I prepared.
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Sedgwick County Manager Bill Buchanan should be dismissed
Read more: Sedgwick County Manager Bill Buchanan should be dismissedLast year a political science professor, a keen observer of Kansas politics, told me that city or county managers shouldn’t be in office more than four or five years. After that, he said, they gain too much power. They know too much: all the secrets, where the bodies are buried. Think of J. Edgar Hoover…
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Flint Hills Center adds more staff
Read more: Flint Hills Center adds more staffGrace Harris has been named Government Transparency / Operations Manager at the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy. Harris will lead government transparency projects which will make government data more available to Kansans. Along with government transparency, Harris will organize day-to-day operations for Flint Hills.
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Road to prosperity for Kansas to be examined in Wichita
Read more: Road to prosperity for Kansas to be examined in WichitaAt this Friday’s meeting of the Wichita Pachyderm Club, Dave Trabert, President of the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy will explain the ideas and concepts presented in Friedrich Hayek’s monumental work The Road to Serfdom.
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AFP “Defending the American Dream” summit announced
Read more: AFP “Defending the American Dream” summit announcedAmericans For Prosperity has announced its third annual national summit. It’s on Friday and Saturday, October 1, and 2, in Arlington, Virginia. On Friday there’s a rally and news conference at Capitol Hill.
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Government regulation failed again, yet more is called for
Read more: Government regulation failed again, yet more is called forNo matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.
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The Cap and Tax Fiction
Read more: The Cap and Tax FictionThere’s been a of of joy among the radical environmentalists lately since the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) came out with a report that seems to say that the costs of the pending cap and trade legislation — the Waxman-Markey bill — is small. At a annual cost of $175 per household, that shouldn’t be much…
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Wichita school district’s cost-shifting burdens federal coffers
Read more: Wichita school district’s cost-shifting burdens federal coffersWhen USD 259, the Wichita public school district, recently sold some bonds, they took advantage of a new program called Build America Bonds. This program was passed as part of the federal stimulus program earlier this year. The benefit to the Wichita school district is that the federal government will pay 35% of the interest…
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Fireworks in Wichita
Read more: Fireworks in WichitaHere’s a slide show of some neighborhood fireworks from Independence Day. It’s a challenge to take photographs for fireworks, at least for me, and a good dose of luck is needed to get just the right shot. For the slide show, click here.
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The right to health care
Read more: The right to health careIs there a right to health care in America? If you believe in liberty, the answer is no.
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In Wichita, concern shown for direction of health care
Read more: In Wichita, concern shown for direction of health careToday, about 30 activists gathered in Wichita to express their concern over the possible takeover of health care by the government. For me, what I will remember from today is the story told by Wendy Aylworth about the death of her cousin’s daughter.
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Global warming testimony released
Read more: Global warming testimony releasedIn May, Wichita geophysicist Dennis Hedke traveled to Arlington, Virginia to deliver testimony at a public hearing conducted by the Environmental protection Agency, or EPA. Now Hedke has released the document that he delivered to the EPA. You can read it in its entirety at the end of this article. Here are some highlights.