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Kansas minimum wage: wrong questions
Read more: Kansas minimum wage: wrong questionsA recent letter in the Wichita Eagle asks these questions: “Who would work for $2.65 an hour? State legislators don’t get paid much, that is true. But would they work for $2.65 an hour? Would they send their sons or daughters to a job that paid that little?” These questions are intended to stir up…
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Articles of Interest
Read more: Articles of InterestElectric cars, Obama and education reform, Kansas online records, Proposition K.
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South Central Kansas Legislative Meeting a Disappointment
Read more: South Central Kansas Legislative Meeting a DisappointmentOn Saturday March, 14, a meeting of the south central Kansas legislative delegation was held at the Marcus Center of Wichita State University. This meeting was a disappointment for several reasons. First, at its maximum, nine legislators attended. This is a poor rate of attendance. At the meeting in January, about 22 legislators attended. About…
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Perhaps the greatest Wichita Eagle opinion line ever
Read more: Perhaps the greatest Wichita Eagle opinion line ever“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
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Earl Watkins, Sunflower Chief Executive, speaks at AFP event
Read more: Earl Watkins, Sunflower Chief Executive, speaks at AFP eventEarl Watkins, President and CEO of Sunflower Electric Power Corporation recently spoke to a group of citizen activists as part of AFP – Kansas Day at the Capitol. Here’s a few notes from his talk.
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Kansas Smoking Ban Conflicts Wichita’s
Read more: Kansas Smoking Ban Conflicts Wichita’sHere’s a letter the Wichita Eagle printed from Wichita businessman Craig Gabel. There are many reasons to oppose more smoking bans. The posts Testimony Opposing Kansas Smoking Ban, Haze Surrounds Wichita Smoking Ban, Property Rights Should Control Kansas Smoking Decisions, and It?s Not the Same as Pee In the Swimming Pool supply some background. The…
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Legislative forum tomorrow
Read more: Legislative forum tomorrowHere’s a post by the Wichita Eagle’s Deb Gruver about a legislative forum to be held tomorrow. In my experience, these can be useful meetings for citizens to attend. To find the Marcus Center, click here to view WSU’s page for it and a map. Members of the south-central Kansas area legislative delegation will be…
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Articles of Interest
Read more: Articles of InterestCharity, Kansas legal intrigue, Kansas infant mortality rate rises under Sebelius, taxing it all, bailouts not wanted, cap-and-trade costs, school choice saves.
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Increased number think global warming is “exaggerated”
Read more: Increased number think global warming is “exaggerated”A new Gallup poll shows that the trend in thinking among Americans over the past few years is that the news about global warming is exaggerated. “This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject.”
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Wichita homeless schoolchildren count exaggerated
Read more: Wichita homeless schoolchildren count exaggeratedWhen an institution needlessly exaggerates the severity of a situation, it diminishes the plight of the true problem. That’s the case with USD 259, the Wichita public school district, when it reports that 1,200 Wichita schoolchildren are homeless.
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We really don’t know what Kansas taxes should be — except lower
Read more: We really don’t know what Kansas taxes should be — except lowerToday’s edition of the Kansas Jackass blog has a post written by Jason Croucher that criticizes Americans For Prosperity because the group doesn’t like taxes. That’s not quite accurate, as Croucher himself says he doesn’t like paying taxes. Instead, the post seems to argue that we have to pay taxes because they’re there, and we…
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More support for Proposition K in Kansas
Read more: More support for Proposition K in KansasAbout the only people who don’t like Proposition K are people dependent on government for their revenues. Here, a press release from the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy tells of two organizations who have endorsed Proposition K. There may be some who note that these two organizations, being involved in the real estate business,…