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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…
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Parks’ Selection as Sedgwick County Commission Chair Breaks Tradition
Read more: Parks’ Selection as Sedgwick County Commission Chair Breaks TraditionIn a move that suggests that there may be some change in the way things are done in the Sedgwick County Courthouse, Kelly Parks was selected as chairman of the Board of County Commissioners for the next year. No other name was placed in nomination. Then, Gwen Welshimer was selected as chairmen pro tem, again…
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Kansas Governor Not Facing Reality of Budget Crisis
Read more: Kansas Governor Not Facing Reality of Budget CrisisKansas Liberty reports that the balancing act performed by Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius on the fiscal year 2009 budget is, well, a little off-kilter. (Fiscal 2009 is the current budget year, ending on June 30, 2009). In the post Sebelius’ new budget misses the target by $50 million we learn that relying on budget numbers…
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A Look at Some Kansas Budget Adjustments
Read more: A Look at Some Kansas Budget AdjustmentsPage 3 of a document titled “Overview Presentation FY 2010 Governor?s Budget Report” (download it from this page: www.budget.ks.gov/gbr.htm) holds two tables: one titled “State General Fund Outlook — Without Solutions,” and a second with solutions. One of the differences between the two tables is a line in the second table captioned “Governor’s Revenue Adjustments”…
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Why the Kansas budget is in trouble
Read more: Why the Kansas budget is in troubleWhy is the Kansas budget in such bad shape? Not enough taxation? Too much spending?
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Kansas Budget Lacks Solutions for Reform, says AFP’s Sontag
Read more: Kansas Budget Lacks Solutions for Reform, says AFP’s SontagTOPEKA — The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity — Kansas released the following statement in response to the Governor?s FY 2009 and FY 2010 budget proposal: “The budget proposal released today offers no real solutions for budget reform, leaving it up to the Legislature to demonstrate some leadership at this important time,” said AFP…
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Construction Companies Line Up for Wichita School Work
Read more: Construction Companies Line Up for Wichita School WorkThe Wichita Business Journal reports the story Eby to bid on Wichita schools work with new bond underwriter. The story describes how a prominent Wichita construction firm has placed its bonding situation in order, and is now ready to take on some work for USD 259, the Wichita public school district. This company paid the…