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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…
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The Things Wichita Eagle Columnist Mark McCormick Omits
Read more: The Things Wichita Eagle Columnist Mark McCormick OmitsIn his Wichita Eagle titled Taxpayer watchdog seems to target city, columnist Mark McCormick asks “What does Karl Peterjohn have against Wichita kids?” His basis for asking, as developed in the column, is that since Karl Peterjohn, head of the Kansas Taxpayers Network (and now Republican nominee for the Sedgwick County Commission) opposes a bond…
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Bobby Rozzell’s Great Idea for Wichita Leaders
Read more: Bobby Rozzell’s Great Idea for Wichita LeadersAt the imaginatively-named Bobby Rozzell?s Blog the author has a suggestion for Wichita government. Here’s the idea: Some smart local leader is going to figure out that social media (blogging and such) has the potential for building relationships with a large number of citizens. A number that would be impossible if it was attempted physically.…
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Kansas Blog Roundup for August 15, 2008
Read more: Kansas Blog Roundup for August 15, 2008No overarching theme emerged this week in Kansas blogs. Follow-up from the August 5 Kansas primary and Wichita school board action proved popular with readers. A new (to me, anyway) and interesting Kansas blog is Jewish Simplicity, which blogs about “… simplicity, frugality and sustainability from a Jewish perspective …” Douglas and Main is a…
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Ultimate Libertarian Quote List
Read more: Ultimate Libertarian Quote ListMy friend Eric Odom publishes the Ultimate Libertarian Quote List. Well, maybe. My quotations book is pretty good, I think.