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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…
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Our Economic Past — Equality, Markets, and Morality
Read more: Our Economic Past — Equality, Markets, and MoralityFree markets may yield odd results and certainly unequal outcomes, but the greater opportunities and prosperity have made the tradeoff worthwhile for American society. From Our Economic Past ~ Equality, Markets, and Morality by Burton Folsom, Jr., posted at the Foundation for Economic Education.
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Booted from White House Conference Call
Read more: Booted from White House Conference CallMy friend Leslie Carbone was Booted from White House Conference Call. By the way, Leslie is the author of Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform, which will be published in May 2009. I can’t wait.
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Wichita School Bond: Was Safety Important in 2000 at College Hill Elementary?
Read more: Wichita School Bond: Was Safety Important in 2000 at College Hill Elementary?Today, three College Hill Elementary School staff members (Casey McConnell, Kathleen Endsley, and Jacqueline Henning) write to the Wichita Eagle with this complaint about their school, and a question too: But like many schools in the district, it does not have a safe room for use in a tornado warning. … It has been stated…
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Wichita School Bond Man-on-the-Street Video
Read more: Wichita School Bond Man-on-the-Street VideoAt the Wichita School Bond channel on YouTube, there are some new man-on-the-street video interviews available.
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Dry-Cleaning Economics in One Lesson
Read more: Dry-Cleaning Economics in One LessonThe Foundation for Economic Education reports that an American clothes hanger company has succeeded in persuading the government to slap a tariff on its foreign competitors. Who wins? …the tariff is expected to cost some $212,765 for each of the 564 jobs saved. … The lesson is that the misguided attempt to save jobs for…
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Do We Know if Enrollment Numbers Support Wichita School Bond Issue?
Read more: Do We Know if Enrollment Numbers Support Wichita School Bond Issue?Writing in the Wichita Eagle Editorial Blog, Phillip Brownlee writes “Some opponents of the USD 259 bond issue have argued that the district shouldn?t need more classroom space because its enrollment has been fairly flat since the 2000 bond issue.” He then goes on to make the case for the district needing more schools and…
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Wichita School Bond Not Alone in Kansas
Read more: Wichita School Bond Not Alone in KansasBesides the proposed school bond issue in Wichita, several other communities are planning elections for their own bond issues. In Girard, a proposed school bond issue of $24.4 million would have 47% paid for by the state of Kansas (Board sets scope of proposed bond issue). In Baldwin City, a $22.9 million bond issue will…