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Barack Obama and the Price of Change
Read more: Barack Obama and the Price of ChangeThe Competitive Enterprise Institute, an important organization dedicated to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government, has a short (one minute) video that does a little arithmetic and arrives at the price of President-elect Obama’s plans for economic stimulus. Hint: it’s a pretty big number.
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Official Reaction to Possibility of State School Bond Funding Cuts
Read more: Official Reaction to Possibility of State School Bond Funding CutsThe possibility that the State of Kansas might eliminate aid to school districts to help the pay for bond issues is causing quite a stir at USD 259, the Wichita public school district. (See Kansas Budget Problems Threaten School Bond Aid for background.) It seems that the district is letting Linda Jones, chief financial officer…
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Changing Rules Now Bad, Says Wichita School Board President Lynn Rogers
Read more: Changing Rules Now Bad, Says Wichita School Board President Lynn Rogers“It amounts to changing the rules in the middle of the game,” said Wichita school board president Lynn Rogers. “And it’s really bad policy.” This is the Wichita Eagle reporting his remarks to the possibility that the State of Kansas might stop the aid to school districts that helps them pay for bond issues. Mr.…
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Here’s Why Kansans Need to Take Control
Read more: Here’s Why Kansans Need to Take ControlAs an introduction to my post What Impact do Kansas Voters Have on Judges?, Todd Epp of Kansas Watch writes “Um, this lawyer suggests, hopefully none?!” My post mentions Kansas University Law Professor Stephen Ware‘s call for an end to the lawyer-dominated process of selection Kansas judges. Mr. Epp’s reaction — and he is a…
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What impact do Kansas voters have on judges?
Read more: What impact do Kansas voters have on judges?Recently a Kansas blog covered a political event and wrote this in a post titled Defending America Summit Brought out the Wingnuts: Stephen Ware, Professor at the University of Kansas Law School: “What’s unusual about Kansas is about how little the people’s wishes matter. There are no checks and balances in the judicial selection process.”
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Wichita City Council Candidate James Barfield Addresses Activists
Read more: Wichita City Council Candidate James Barfield Addresses ActivistsAt Monday’s combined meeting of Campaign For Liberty and Hope For America Coalition, candidate for the Wichita city council district 1 seat James Barfield spoke to the 40 or so activists who gathered. “Wichita has a gang problem. A legalized gang operating at 455 N. Main. It’s time for a gang intervention.” He went on…
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Kansas Legislator Rosters Not Ready
Read more: Kansas Legislator Rosters Not ReadyAt the Kansas Legislature website, two useful pages to visit are the roster of house and senate members. These pages hold the names of all the members, along with their email addresses and a link to the page for each member. As of today, these pages aren’t ready for this year’s legislative session, which started…
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Kansas Budget Problems Threaten School Bond Aid
Read more: Kansas Budget Problems Threaten School Bond AidOops. When I wrote this article, I proceeded as though it was Rhonda Holman who penned the Wichita Eagle editorial I refer to. But the author is Phillip Brownlee. It just seemed like a Rhonda Holman editorial. Because the State of Kansas is short on money this year and the next few years, lawmakers are…
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The bailout reader
Read more: The bailout readerThe events taking place in the financial market offer an illustration of the soundness of the Austrian theory of money, banking, and credit cycles, and Mises.org, which has long warned of precisely the scenario playing itself out today, is your source not only for analysis of these events but also the economic theory that helps…
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Performance Inflation in Kansas Schools?
Read more: Performance Inflation in Kansas Schools?USD 259, the Wichita public school district, claims 11 years of rising test scores. They’ve got the data (I think so, anyway) to prove it. In fact, the test scores are rising fairly rapidly in Wichita and across the state. See Wichita Test Scores Largely Mirror Kansas for some charts I prepared of test scores…
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Charter school students more likely to graduate high school
Read more: Charter school students more likely to graduate high schoolJay P. Greene discusses a news study examining charter schools: The researchers look at whether attending a charter high school in Chicago and Florida increases the likelihood that students would graduate high school and go on to college. The short answer is that it does. … This study comes on the heels of positive results…
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Big Government Is Not Stimulus
Read more: Big Government Is Not StimulusFrom the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation. In less than four minutes, Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute reviews the theory and history of Keynesian policies, and demonstrates that more government spending does not spur economic growth. The video is very timely since government spending has increased dramatically under Bush and now Obama wants…