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Maryland Previews Kansas Climate Change Panel
Read more: Maryland Previews Kansas Climate Change PanelIn Kansas, the Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group, or KEEP, is meeting and planning the future of Kansas energy policy. If we want to see what the conclusions of this effort will look like, we can look to the just-completed effort in Maryland. Yes, we’ll have to make a few adjustments, as Maryland…
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Liberals Favor Outsourcing
Read more: Liberals Favor OutsourcingA press release announcing the new book by Peter Schweizer Makers and Takers contains this sentence: Schweizer argues that the failure lies in modern liberal ideas, which foster a self-centered, “if it feels, good do it” attitude that leads liberals to outsource their responsibilities to the government and focus instead on themselves and their own…
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Follow Me on Twitter. I’ll follow you.
Read more: Follow Me on Twitter. I’ll follow you.Some people have asked if I’m on Twitter, and the answer is yes. Here’s a link to my Twitter profile, from where you can choose to follow me. I don’t use Twitter as much as a lot of people do. I don’t have a mobile device like a Blackberry. I have a regular old-fashioned cell…
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My Apoligies For Comment Loss
Read more: My Apoligies For Comment LossYesterday afternoon I was performing some maintenance on my server. I deleted a test installation of a WordPress blog that I used for, naturally, testing. I thought I deleted the testing database that belong to the testing WordPress installation, but I actually deleted the production database that runs the Voice For Liberty in Wichita. Oops.…
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In Sedgwick County, New Technology vs. Old School
Read more: In Sedgwick County, New Technology vs. Old SchoolI was one of the two campaign co-managers for Karl Peterjohn’s successful campaign for the Republican nomination for Sedgwick County Commissioner, third district. As such I was invited to the election night party where we watched the returns roll in. I had my laptop computer with me, connected to the outside world by a wireless…
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Kansas Blog Roundup for August 8, 2008
Read more: Kansas Blog Roundup for August 8, 2008The August primary exposed some ugly behavior in the Kansas Republican party. And from its senate leadership, no less. While not, strictly speaking, a blog, Kansas Liberty is a great place to read about Kansas politics. The article Senate Leadership PAC supporting Republican liberals over conservatives in primaries: Conservatives protest GOP contributions to liberal Republican…
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Predictions of Downtown Wichita Arena’s Success are Premature
Read more: Predictions of Downtown Wichita Arena’s Success are PrematureSeveral Wichita Eagle editorials in recent weeks have mentioned the success of the Intrust Arena being built in downtown Wichita. Success, I might ask, at doing what? The fact that the arena structure is rising is evidence of only the smallest measure of competence by Sedgwick County officials. Having entrusted them with some two hundred…
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Questions Wichita Reverend Kevass Harding Will Not Answer
Read more: Questions Wichita Reverend Kevass Harding Will Not AnswerThe Reverend Kevass Harding, a member of the board of USD 259, the Wichita public school district, is also a real estate developer (New life for Ken-Mar Shopping Center: Harding plans to revitalize 13th Street mall, March 14, 2008 Wichita Business Journal). The problem is that Harding plans to ask the taxpayers of the City…
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Testimony Opposing Expansion of the Wichita City South Redevelopment Tax Increment Financing District
Read more: Testimony Opposing Expansion of the Wichita City South Redevelopment Tax Increment Financing DistrictFrom John Todd. Mr. Mayor and members of the Wichita City Council, thank you for allowing me this opportunity to speak before you today. My name is John Todd. I stand before you today as a citizen in opposition to the Expansion of the City South Redevelopment District (Tax Increment Financing) (Districts I & VI).…
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Downtown Wichita Arena TIF District
Read more: Downtown Wichita Arena TIF DistrictRemarks to Wichita City Council, August 5, 2008. When I’ve been talking to people in Wichita, I find there is great confusion about the way that TIF districts work. This confusion serves to obfuscate what really happens with TIF districts: the TIF developers get to use their own property taxes to pay for things that…
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Wichita School Bond Issue Opponents: Driving What? And How?
Read more: Wichita School Bond Issue Opponents: Driving What? And How?In his Sunday Wichita Eagle column, Mark McCormick complains that the Wichita school bond issue opponents are a) cynical, b) short-sighted, c) myopic, d) forces pulling us backwards, e) frightening voters, f) spending too much at Starbucks, g) only saying “no,” h) hiding their true agenda to replace public schools with vouchers, i) not honest…