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Wichita School Safe Rooms: At No Cost?
Read more: Wichita School Safe Rooms: At No Cost?Writing from Scottsdale, Arizona At the September 8, 2008 meeting of the board of USD 259, the Wichita public school district, safe rooms were on the agenda. A few things I learned: It appears that it was by serendipity that the district discovered that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would help pay for the…
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Ohio School Choice Improves Public Schools
Read more: Ohio School Choice Improves Public SchoolsThe Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice has produced the report Promising Start — An Empirical Analysis of How EdChoice Vouchers Affect Ohio Public Schools, which finds these results: This study finds that the EdChoice program produced academic improvements in voucher-eligible public schools. … This study adds to a large body of empirical research that consistently…
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Wichita School District: TIF Action Tests Accountability and Ethics
Read more: Wichita School District: TIF Action Tests Accountability and EthicsThe real problem with this TIF district, however, is the conduct of the applicant, who is a member of this board. At a meeting of the Wichita City Council, Reverend Harding told the council that he had informed his fellow school board members of what he was doing. But two members of this board have…
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Testimony before the USD 259 Wichita Public School board regarding the Ken Mar TIF
Read more: Testimony before the USD 259 Wichita Public School board regarding the Ken Mar TIFFrom John Todd. President Rogers, School Board Members, and Superintendent Libhart, I thank you for this opportunity to speak. My name is John Todd. I live at 1559 Payne in Wichita, Kansas, and I am opposed to the Ken Mar shopping center TIF that was created by the City of Wichita on August 12, 2008,…
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Wichita School Bond Issue Cartoons are Funny
Read more: Wichita School Bond Issue Cartoons are FunnyHelen Cochran of Citizens for Better Education has released a political cartoon whose topic is the Wichita school bond issue. She’s told me this is the first of a series. They’ll appear in the Wichita Eagle each Monday, and on CBE’s website right after that. Click here to go to CBE’s website and see the…
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Government Workers Are America’s New Elite
Read more: Government Workers Are America’s New EliteShould a special license-plate program for California government workers allow them to drive without regard for traffic laws? Is it possible for a firefighter to earn more than $200,000 in a year? The Foundation for Economic Education reports on these and other matters in Government Workers Are America’s New Elite.
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Are airlines pilots the best judge of airline economics?
Read more: Are airlines pilots the best judge of airline economics?I’m not positive about this, but I’m sure that the demand for air travel between Wichita and Oklahoma City is very low. Google maps tells me that the driving time from one city’s downtown to the other is two hours and 30 minutes. The drive to a city’s airport, arriving way early to make sure…
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Kansas State Fair: Who Isn’t There
Read more: Kansas State Fair: Who Isn’t ThereHaving spent about 20 hours the past three days collecting signatures on petitions at the Kansas State Fair, I have this observation: After looking at several hundred names and addresses, not one was from a town or city in Johnson county. I collected signatures from other northeast Kansas counties, but not one from Johnson county.
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I’m at the Kansas State Fair
Read more: I’m at the Kansas State FairThis weekend I’m helping out at the Kansas Taxpayer Network booth at the Kansas State Fair. The booth is in the Meadowlark building, north aisle. I’ll be there from 4:00 to 10:00 today, 9:00 to 4:00 tomorrow (Saturday), and 3:00 to 9:00 Sunday. Stop by and say hello.
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Kansas Header Images Now Available
Read more: Kansas Header Images Now AvailableI created a Flickr photo set that holds all the header images that I use on the Voice For Liberty in Wichita. To see the images in full size, click on any image, then along its top, click on “All sizes.” To view a slide show of these images, click here. I took all these…
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Kansas Blog Roundup for September 5, 2008
Read more: Kansas Blog Roundup for September 5, 2008In Kansas this week, blog coverage of local issues is a little light, partly due to the holiday, but also the Republican convention.
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Kansas electric rates increase because of wind power generation
Read more: Kansas electric rates increase because of wind power generationElectric rates may be increasing for many Kansas consumers. Why? To pay for a new coal-fired plant? According to Notice of Public Hearings & Comment Period availabe at the Kansas Corporation Commission, the reasons Westar Energy cites as creating the need for a rate increase are repair costs from a recent ice storm, investments in…