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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.
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Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer saves us from covered wagons
Read more: Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer saves us from covered wagonsWichita Mayor Carl Brewer believes that without government oversight and planning of our economy, Wichita would revert back to the way it was at its founding.
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Pickens’s Slim Economics
Read more: Pickens’s Slim EconomicsAn article from the Foundation for Economic Education warns us to be cautious when considering the plans of oilman T. Boone Pickens: Pickens?s commercial no doubt causes FEE readers? classical-liberal antennae to stand at attention. The word “plan” alone rightly provokes worries of coercive schemes. The notion of being independent of energy or any other…
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Increasing the Wichita School Bond Issue: Why Was Courage Required?
Read more: Increasing the Wichita School Bond Issue: Why Was Courage Required?Talking to news media during a break in the meeting of USD 259, the Wichita public school district, on Monday August 11, 2008, Connie Dietz referred to her surprise motion to increase the amount being asked for by $20 million, remarking “I knew what I wanted to do, and I guess I was trying to…
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Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, August 12, 2008
Read more: Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, August 12, 2008Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer believes that without government oversight and planning of our economy, Wichita would revert back to the way it was at its founding.