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Kansas Senator Dick Kelsey Announces for Congress
Read more: Kansas Senator Dick Kelsey Announces for CongressOn Friday Kansas Senator Dick Kelsey announced that he is a candidate for the United States Congress. Kelsey seeks the seat presently held by Todd Tiahrt, who is running for United States Senate. The Wichita Eagle covered the announcement in the story State Sen. Dick Kelsey to run for Tiahrt’s congressional seat. A question I…
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Kansas voter data difficult to use
Read more: Kansas voter data difficult to useAt the Kansas Meadowlark, Earl Glynn has an article that illustrates some of the difficulties that researches face when working with voter data. I haven’t done nearly as much of this as Earl has, but I can tell you there have been times when I’ve been quite frustrated with voter data that I’ve received. I’ve…
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Todd Tiahrt on the Kansas Senate Primary
Read more: Todd Tiahrt on the Kansas Senate PrimaryAt Friday’s meeting of the Wichita Pachyderm Club, United States Congressman for the fourth district of Kansas Todd Tiahrt was the speaker. Dion Lefler of the Wichita Eagle covered Tiaht’s speech in the news story Tiahrt offers thoughts on Obama, stimulus to Wichita Pachyderm Club. After the meeting I spoke to the congressman and asked…
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Legal Notices in Kansas Newspapers
Read more: Legal Notices in Kansas NewspapersKansas Liberty reports on Senate Bill 164, which would allow publication of legal notices on the Internet only. Presently these notices must be published in a newspaper. The measure is viewed as a way to save money. The Kansas Liberty story (Local governments take aim at small-town newspapers) reports that the downside is that many…
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Explaining Again Why Obamanian, or Keynesian, Stimulus Won’t Work
Read more: Explaining Again Why Obamanian, or Keynesian, Stimulus Won’t WorkFrom The Stimulus Tragedy: Obama bets that we can spend our way to prosperity: So there it is: Mr. Obama is now endorsing a sort of reductionist Keynesianism that argues that any government spending is an economic stimulus. This is so manifestly false that we doubt Mr. Obama really believes it. He has to know…
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Stimulus bill payoff to wrong education interests
Read more: Stimulus bill payoff to wrong education interestsThe Wall Street Journal analyzes some of the earmarks in the stimulus bill, and finds that specific provisions for spending are going to be wasted — except that they payoff special interests:
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Proposition K op-ed confuses issue
Read more: Proposition K op-ed confuses issueToday’s Wichita Eagle contains an op-ed by Glenn W. Fisher, regents professor emeritus at Wichita State University and property tax expert (Con: Tax plan would shift burden, be arbitrary, February 8, 2009 Wichita Eagle). The subject of this piece is Proposition K, an effort to reform the property tax appraisal system in Kansas. Proposition K…
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Wichita Municipal Judges Need to be Elected
Read more: Wichita Municipal Judges Need to be ElectedHere’s a letter from citizen activist John Todd to Wichita City Council candidate Ken Thomas. The election of Wichita municipal court judges is important for reasons John makes clear in his testimony to the Kansas Legislature from 2004, which follows. I am pleased that you are making the election of Municipal Court Judges by the…
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Activist Training to be Held in Wichita
Read more: Activist Training to be Held in WichitaOn Saturday February 28, American Majority and Americans For Prosperity will hold Special Joint Activist Training In Wichita, KS. Here’s more information from American Majority: The training will be hosted by American Majority and AFP — Kansas, who will be presenting exclusive training to enable common citizens to make a difference in their communities by…
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Kelly Wendeln on Global Warming
Read more: Kelly Wendeln on Global WarmingKelly Wendeln speaks to the members of the Wichita City Council about global warming on February 3, 2009.
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NoStimulus.com surpasses 60,000 online petitions
Read more: NoStimulus.com surpasses 60,000 online petitionsAmericans For Prosperity is dong a great job opposing the stimulus with their NoStimulus.com website. Visit there for information about the dangers of what President Obama and Congressional leaders are doing. Sign the petition, too.
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Derby Reporter Gives Up
Read more: Derby Reporter Gives UpThe Wichita Business Journal reports that the Derby Reporter is going out of business. (Derby newspaper shutting down) The cause of this is attributed to Sedgwick County’s recent decision to print its legal notices in the Wichita Eagle instead of the Derby newspaper. This quaint practice of publishing legal notices in newspapers is mandated by…