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Kansas Senator Chris Steineger on Redesigning Kansas Government
Read more: Kansas Senator Chris Steineger on Redesigning Kansas GovernmentOn January 10, 2009, Kansas Senator Chris Steineger, Democrat from Kansas City, spoke to some 300 citizens at Americans For Prosperity‘s Defending the American Dream Summit in Wichita. Steineger said that we should look at the current budget crisis in Kansas as an opportunity to redesign and reinvent Kansas government. He asked “why do we…
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Walking Door-to-Door with Marcey — ummm — Lavonta?
Read more: Walking Door-to-Door with Marcey — ummm — Lavonta?Wichita city council member Lavonta Williams just launched the website that supports her campaign for re-election. It’s a nice website, but it has a little mistake that gives us a clue as to who might be running Williams’ campaign. Her “Get involved” page lists this as one of the ways you can help Williams: “Walking…
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Invisible Kansans Tell Their Stories
Read more: Invisible Kansans Tell Their StoriesIt’s one of the toughest issues for advocates of limited government to address — the plight of those who truly aren’t in a position to help themselves. The website InvisibleKansans.org tells some stories of people in these situations. But is the solution for these people more government? As it is, these people are — at…
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Budget reform tops AFP — Kansas legislative agenda
Read more: Budget reform tops AFP — Kansas legislative agendaHere’s a press release from AFP — Kansas announcing that organization’s legislative agenda for Kansas. I’ll be reporting more about this after a meeting with AFP representatives tomorrow. TOPEKA — The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity — Kansas today announced its priorities for the 2009 legislative session. ?Our legislative agenda this year focuses on…
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First Amendment Defense Thorny Issue for Kansas Ethics Commission
Read more: First Amendment Defense Thorny Issue for Kansas Ethics CommissionThe Kansas Meadowlark is covering a case before the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission that has free speech implications. The Meadowlark’s report is First Amendment Defense Thorny Issue for Ethics Commission.
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Is 65 Percent the Solution?
Read more: Is 65 Percent the Solution?At the Kansas Education blog, a post titled Is 65 Percent the Solution? examines some of the arguments and policy considerations surrounding the popular proposal that schools must spend at least 65 percent of their funds in the classroom. Whatever that — “in the classroom” or on “instruction” — means. And that’s part of the…
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Another Misleading Question by GPACE
Read more: Another Misleading Question by GPACEYesterday we saw how the website of the Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy contains a list of ten questions for Sunflower supporters. My post GPACE “Sunflower” Questions Misleading showed how these questions are designed to influence public opinion in a very misleading manner. One of the ways some of the questions are misleading is…
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Wichita Construction Company Contributes; Hopes Schools Will be “Big”
Read more: Wichita Construction Company Contributes; Hopes Schools Will be “Big”Sunday’s Wichita Eagle contains a profile of Rick McCafferty, executive vice president of Key Construction. (A Conversation with Rick McCafferty January 18, 2009) In this article, Mr. McCafferty is quoted as saying “Schools are going to be big for us. Obviously we are pleased that Wichita passed its school bond issue.” Quite an understatement, I’d…
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President Obama on Government Transparency
Read more: President Obama on Government TransparencyThe way to make a government responsible is not simply to enlist the services of responsible men and women, or to sign laws that ensure that they never stray. The way to make government responsible is to hold it accountable. And the way to make government accountable is make it transparent so that the American…
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Just Say No to Stimulus
Read more: Just Say No to Stimulus“Congress should not enact an expensive spending bill under the pretense of stimulus or recovery. We cannot spend our way to prosperity, and such an expansion of the federal government will put a crushing burden on taxpayers in the long-term.” That’s the online petition at NoStimulus.com. This website, a project of Americans For Prosperity, provides…
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Annoyed by Anti-Annoyance Law
Read more: Annoyed by Anti-Annoyance LawHere’s Paul Jacob‘s commentary for today. I’m annoyed by a new law passed in the Michigan town of Brighton City. According to the ordinance, police may fine anyone who is too annoying in public. Up to $500. The ordinance states: “It shall be unlawful for a person to engage in a course of conduct or…
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Welcome to Washington
Read more: Welcome to WashingtonI am not entirely sure it is not, but my personal impression is that nothing makes people more cynical about government than working for it. I have never heard a libertarian speak about the futility of most government departments the way American and foreign officials often do in restaurants or bars on Capitol Hill, on…