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Free market economists weigh in on Paulson’s plan
Read more: Free market economists weigh in on Paulson’s planReason Magazine asks free-market economists their opinion of the proposed bailout plan, and collects their results. Click here to read this excellent article.
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The Bailout Reader
Read more: The Bailout ReaderThe Ludwig von Mises Institute has compiled The Bailout Reader, a collection of articles relevant to the current situation. Not all these articles are from the past few weeks, as Austrian economists have long understood the dangers of government interventionism, the fruits of which we see today. The events taking place in the financial market…
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First Wichita School Bond Advertisement
Read more: First Wichita School Bond AdvertisementWichitans for Effective Education has released the first in a series of Wichita school bond issue advertisements. More will follow. Visit the Wichita School Bond Channel at YouTube for more videos.
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Lure of Earmarks Impossible to Resist, Even in Crisis
Read more: Lure of Earmarks Impossible to Resist, Even in CrisisBill Smith of ARRA News Service reports on earmarks worming their way in the agreement to end the current financial crisis. This agreement may have imploded on itself, but the lesson is clear. See the post Major “Earmark” in Democrat Bailout Agreement .
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At Wichita Chisholm Trail Elementary School, Why is Increased Enrollment a Problem?
Read more: At Wichita Chisholm Trail Elementary School, Why is Increased Enrollment a Problem?Today’s Wichita Eagle reports Wichita area schools’ enrollment increases. Featured in this story is Chisholm Trail Elementary School, which added 112 students. The enrollment there is now 576. Interim superintendent Martin Libhart and other officials held a press conference there, presumably to emphasize the plight of this school. Someone has already mentioned to me today…
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Ron Paul’s Wisdom on the Current Financial Crisis
Read more: Ron Paul’s Wisdom on the Current Financial CrisisRon Paul writes My Answer to the President, noting that the “financial meltdown the economists of the Austrian School predicted has arrived.” He introduces a quotation from Hayek this way: F.A. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks? manipulation of interest rates creates the boom-bust cycle with which we are sadly familiar.…
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Charter Schools Are Mostly Okay Despite Misconceptions
Read more: Charter Schools Are Mostly Okay Despite MisconceptionsA recent Wichita Eagle Editorial Blog post mentioned charter schools in Arizona. A comment writer wrote “Arizona found out, ‘Charter schools tend to be fly by night’ schools operated by entrepreneurs looking for new profit centers at the giant expense of the public school system.”
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Wichita School District: Is Another Bond Proposal the Best Idea?
Read more: Wichita School District: Is Another Bond Proposal the Best Idea?The Flint Hills Center for Public Policy in Wichita has a report titled USD 259: Is Another Bond Proposal the Best Idea? The Wichita School Board is pushing a $370 million bond and Wichita taxpayers should contemplate whether or not this is really going to improve student performance in Wichita. While spending has more than…
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Wichita School District: Accountability is on Our Terms
Read more: Wichita School District: Accountability is on Our TermsUSD 259, the Wichita public school district, wants to be held accountable. They say so. It’s a theme of the proposed bond issue, as recently stated by celebrity spokesman George Fahnestock: “…the district?s accountability is strong…” (See CARE launches Yes For Kids campaign) But what happens when citizens seek information from USD 259 that will…
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Sebelius out of the office campaigning for Obama
Read more: Sebelius out of the office campaigning for ObamaKansas Liberty reports that Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is spending quite a bit of time out of our state campaigning for Barack Obama. The article Sebelius out of the office campaigning for Obama provides details. The article reports that some Kansas Republicans are not pleased with the governor being out of town so often, and…
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Rhonda Holman’s Kansas Energy Policy: Not Good for Kansas
Read more: Rhonda Holman’s Kansas Energy Policy: Not Good for KansasWichita Eagle editorialist Rhonda Holman writes “[Kansas Governor Kathleen] Sebelius gets it. Too bad the Kansas Chamber does not.” This is the end of her lead editorial from today titled Kansas Chamber protecting past. In it, she claims that the Kansas Chamber of Commerce is out of touch with the reality of global warming, and…
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School Choice Resource Center Now Open
Read more: School Choice Resource Center Now OpenI’ve created a small portal of information and links about school choice. I hope to expand this as I become aware of more school choice resources and success stories. Particularly, I want to include more information about school choice initiatives in Kansas. The link to the page is here: School Choice Resource Center.