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Documentary Suggests Alternatives To Public School Orthodoxy
Read more: Documentary Suggests Alternatives To Public School OrthodoxyBy Jim Erickson. Reprinted by permission of East Wichita News. It?s called Flunked, and this documentary, narrated by Joe Mantegna, is a shopping list of successful ideas to improve our schools. Those interested in the school bond issue and education in general might want to catch this movie at The Orpheum on October 8. Though…
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Another Wichita School Bond Cartoon Released
Read more: Another Wichita School Bond Cartoon ReleasedHelen Cochran of Citizens For Better Education has released another cartoon about the Wichita school bond issue. Click here to view this humorous commentary.
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Wichita public school logo fight legal costs
Read more: Wichita public school logo fight legal costsYesterday’s Wichita Eagle reported in a story that USD 259, the Wichita public school district, “… worked for about five years to get its mark registered over the objection of Washington apple growers …” The article is referring to a logo that Wichitans for Effective Education has been using on some of its printed materials.…
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Second Wichita School Bond Commercial Released
Read more: Second Wichita School Bond Commercial ReleasedWichitans for Effective Education has released the second in a series of Wichita school bond issue advertisements. Visit the Wichita School Bond Channel at YouTube for more videos.
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Wichita School Bond Cost Could Rise in a Big Way
Read more: Wichita School Bond Cost Could Rise in a Big WayUSD 259 (Wichita public school district) officials have estimated that the interest rate for the proposed Wichita school bond issue would be 4.75%. With the recent turmoil in credit markets, I think it’s impossible to forecast with any degree of certainty what interest rates on long-term bonds might be over the next few years when…
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Are We Angry Only Because We Were Caught?
Read more: Are We Angry Only Because We Were Caught?In his column Welcome to ‘Moral Hazard’, Wall Street Journal editorial writer Daniel Henninger writes: For behind it all sat Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, running mortgage liquidity into the nation’s neighborhoods like an open fire hydrant. Several years ago, when the Journal’s editorial board met with Fannie Mae’s top executives and pressed the issue…
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Will Credit Crisis Affect Wichita School Bond Issue?
Read more: Will Credit Crisis Affect Wichita School Bond Issue?In Toledo, Ohio, there’s a school bond issue on the ballot this year. My friend Maggie Thurber wonders Does ‘credit crisis’ bode ill for arena and school bond issues? No one has any idea of what the market for loanable funds — the credit markets — will look like for the next few years. If…
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How a Sub-prime Lender Influences Kansas Energy and Environment Policy
Read more: How a Sub-prime Lender Influences Kansas Energy and Environment PolicyIn an American Thinker article titled How allies of George Soros helped bring down Wachovia Bank, you can read about the business activities of Herbert and Marion Sandler: Herbert and Marion Sandler, a New York lawyer and Wall Street analyst respectively, bought a small California thrift in 1963 and built it into GDW [Golden West…
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Still more Kansas National Education Association candidate questions
Read more: Still more Kansas National Education Association candidate questionsThe “Kansas Political Action Committee,” a group associated with the Kansas National Education Association (KNEA, the teachers union) has a questionnaire it asks candidates for the Kansas legislature to complete. After reading a few of these questions, it became clear to me that the questions are formulated to advance the interests of the teachers union…
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Wichita School Bond: Information Request
Read more: Wichita School Bond: Information RequestIn support of the proposed Wichita school bond issue, USD 259 officials and their supporting campaign group make a lot of claims. Unfortunately, Wichita news outlets, for whatever reason, don’t spend a lot of time investigating these claims. It’s left to citizens to make inquiries. So I do. Here’s one sent to Wendy Johnson, Division…
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Should a Beat Journalist be a Layman?
Read more: Should a Beat Journalist be a Layman?Keeping TIFs from a public tiff by Wichita Eagle business reporter Bill Wilson on the Eagle’s Business Casual blog contains some comments that are troubling to me. In these comments, reporter Wilson wrote this: “Instead, a TIF, to this layman, actually is a government bet on the success of a development.” (emphasis added) Now I…
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Our problem is the manager of our money
Read more: Our problem is the manager of our moneyThink of it: Nothing is more vital to capitalism than capital, the financial seed corn dedicated to next year’s crop. Yet we, believers in free markets, allow the price of capital, i.e., the interest rate on loanable funds, to be fixed by a central committee in accordance with government objectives. We might as well resurrect…