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Kansas school districts sitting on $1.36 billion
Read more: Kansas school districts sitting on $1.36 billionIn its first story since the hiring of investigative journalist Paul Soutar, the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy takes a look at the Kansas school budget process, specifically the large amount of unencumbered cash held by Kansas school districts. It appears that the Kansas system of school finance is complicated. “Kansas Board of Education…
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Kansas school spending advocates ramp up
Read more: Kansas school spending advocates ramp upToday the Kansas Legislature returns to Topeka for a session that must deal with the difficult realities of the Kansas budget. Constituencies that depend of government spending have been making their cases for their programs to be spared cuts. The public school lobby is perhaps the most vocal. Kansas Families for Education is a group…
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Articles of Interest
Read more: Articles of InterestKansas governors, renewable energy, napping, flying over New York, the Google, banks.
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Steineger responds to critics. They’re not persuaded.
Read more: Steineger responds to critics. They’re not persuaded.Kansas State Senator Chris Steineger, a Democrat from Kansas City, has reached out to the “other side” several times this year. He spoke at Americans For Prosperity’s Defending the American Dream Summit in Wichita in January (see Kansas Senator Chris Steineger on Redesigning Kansas Government.). On April 15, he spoke at the tea party protest…
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Wichita BOE can still do right for voters
Read more: Wichita BOE can still do right for votersRegarding the decision two weeks ago to award a bond construction project to an out-of-state company, even though a local company submitted a less expensive bid: It wasn’t a promise, but several op-ed pieces by the interim superintendent and school board president last year reminded Wichitans of all the jobs created by the bond issue…
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Why I read The Wall Street Journal
Read more: Why I read The Wall Street JournalIn last Thursday’s edition, a reader wrote a letter explaining why the Wall Street Journal is the most important newspaper in this country. I like it so much I pay to subscribe to both the online version and the “dead tree version,” as their columnist John Fund has described it.
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South-central Kansas legislative forum touches variety of issues
Read more: South-central Kansas legislative forum touches variety of issuesOn Saturday April 25, 2009, members of the South-central Kansas Legislative Delegation met with citizens at the Wichita Water Center. Nine of the approximately 25 members of the delegation attended.
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Wichita-area school superintendents make flawed case
Read more: Wichita-area school superintendents make flawed caseSunday’s Wichita Eagle contains an op-ed piece by several Wichita-area public school superintendents that calls for the Kansas Legislature to spare K-12 education from budget cuts. The piece starts with a recognition of the importance of education. I don’t think that anyone will disagree with this assertion. From then on, however, there’s little that I…
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Social security believers call in
Read more: Social security believers call inTwo short opinion line blurbs in today’s Wichita Eagle will leave readers who believe what they say with a dangerous belief. Here’s the first: “Social Security is socialism, and guess what? It works.” The second, in part reads “Social Security is not socialism. It is insurance. I paid into it for 47 years before collecting…
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What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises?
Read more: What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises?What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises? As this unique film shows, Mises (1881-1973) was a man who never stopped fighting for freedom: not when the Nazis burned his books, not when the Left blackballed him at universities, not when it seemed as if statism had won. With courage and genius, he fought big…
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Wichita Chamber of Commerce makes case for interventionism
Read more: Wichita Chamber of Commerce makes case for interventionismIn a talk to the Wichita Pachyderm Club on Friday April 24, 2009, Bryan S. Derreberry, President and CEO of the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce, laid out the case for government management of our area’s economic and community development. The title of the talk was “The Basis for Economic Partner Selection and Collaborative Efforts.”…