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Wichita School District: Don’t Give Up Your Tax and Revenue Base
Read more: Wichita School District: Don’t Give Up Your Tax and Revenue BaseOn August 5, 2008, the Wichita City Council greatly expanded an existing tax increment financing district. This board has 30 days from then to veto the city’s action. I want to explain why this board should do just that.
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Analysis of Kansas Wind Power Prospects
Read more: Analysis of Kansas Wind Power ProspectsIn the post Is Sebelius’ call for more wind-power all hot air? Kansas Liberty reporter Holly Smith provides excellent analysis of the current situation regarding additional wind power generation in Kansas.
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Kansas Blog Roundup for August 22, 2008
Read more: Kansas Blog Roundup for August 22, 2008In Kansas this week, some blogs are quiet, but others pick up the slack with some worthwhile posts. The Kansas Progress questions the actions of the Kansas Traditional Republican Majority in Actions by liberal group denounced by state GOP. The Kansas Republican Assembly blog has a two-part series of posts covering how Kansas has become…
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Kansas Can’t Do Much Locally To Counter Global Greenhouse Gas Emitters
Read more: Kansas Can’t Do Much Locally To Counter Global Greenhouse Gas EmittersA recent op-ed piece in the Wichita Eagle (Reader View: Give up on Climate Efforts?) makes the case that it is still important to fight climate change at the local level, here in Kansas. “When millions of people act, even in small ways, it has a cumulative effect on the planet.” The problem is that…
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Will George Fahnestock Vote For the Wichita School Bond Issue?
Read more: Will George Fahnestock Vote For the Wichita School Bond Issue?Wichita’s mysterious “Boondoggler” posted today that George Fahnestock, the businessman selected to lead the campaign for the proposed bond issue for USD 259, the Wichita public schools, doesn’t live in the Wichita school district. The post is Fahnestock’s Motivation? A map of his house, along with school district boundaries, may be viewed here. Earlier this…
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Campaigning for my Precinct Race
Read more: Campaigning for my Precinct RaceTwo weeks ago, Kansas held its primary elections. As part of the primary, we elect precinct committeeman and committeewomen. It’s sort of confusing, as everyone else on the ballot goes on to face a challenger in the November general election. But for the precinct races, it ends in August. Earlier this year someone convinced me…
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Wichita’s Naysayers Shortchanged in Council’s Record
Read more: Wichita’s Naysayers Shortchanged in Council’s RecordOn August 12, 2008, the Wichita City Council considered the establishment of a TIF district that would benefit Reverend Kevass Harding and his real estate development team. At the council meeting Reverend Harding spoke, and then John Todd spoke, and then myself. We all spoke for, I would guess, roughly the same amount of time.…
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Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group: Its Heritage
Read more: Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group: Its HeritagePaul Chesser of Climate Strategies Watch has done some investigative work looking into the background and affiliations of the Center for Climate Strategies. This is important because CCS is the radical environmentalist group that Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is using to run the activities of the Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group, or KEEP.…
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Wichita’s Naysayers Are Saying Yes to Liberty
Read more: Wichita’s Naysayers Are Saying Yes to LibertyWichita politicians, newspaper editorial writers, and sometimes just plain folks are fond of bashing those they call the “naysayers,” sometimes known as CAVE people. An example is from a recent Opinion Line Extra in the Wichita Eagle: An acquaintance in another city refers to the anti-everything people as “CAVE” people (Citizens Against Virtually Everything). I…
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Tiff over Wichita TIFs
Read more: Tiff over Wichita TIFsA post titled Keeping TIFs from a public tiff by Wichita Eagle business reporter Bill Wilson on the Eagle’s Business Casual blog reveals his bias in favor of government over individual action and preference. My post The Wichita Eagle?s Preference For Government documents one such example from the past. In this blog post Mr. Wilson…
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Kansas Climate Change Mitigation Will Be Costly
Read more: Kansas Climate Change Mitigation Will Be CostlyA recent presentation in Kansas revealed that fighting global warming in Kansas will be quite costly, and will harm lower-income families most. The Wichita Eagle article Business leaders hear climate talk reports that The National Association of Manufacturers calculated that cap-and-trade proposals before Congress would cost the average Kansas family $304 per month in the…
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Wichita School District: Where Do They Think the Funds Come From?
Read more: Wichita School District: Where Do They Think the Funds Come From?In a Wichita Eagle article City leaders cut short trip to talk about TIF, reporter Deb Gruver writes: “Susan Arensman, a spokeswoman for the school district, said the project would not affect schools.” The context is that the City of Wichita is considering the creation of a large tax increment financing (TIF) district in downtown…