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Tax Chambers of Commerce, Right Here in Kansas
Read more: Tax Chambers of Commerce, Right Here in KansasThis week, Kansas Liberty has a very fine editorial titled The KC Chamber: Enemy of Life, Enemy of Business. Prominent is the mention of the work of my friend the Kansas Meadowlark in revealing the funding of the The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. See Greater Kansas City Chamber PAC, Awash With Cash, Forms…
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What Wichita Vice Mayor Sharon Fearey Doesn’t Understand
Read more: What Wichita Vice Mayor Sharon Fearey Doesn’t UnderstandIn a Wichita Eagle article City tax districts aren’t breaking even we find this whopper of a quote: Vice Mayor Sharon Fearey likened the situation to what would happen if she put a swimming pool in her yard. “I’d probably actually lose money, but for the years that I’ve had that swimming pool, I’d have…
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Who Runs the Wichita School Bond Issue Campaign?
Read more: Who Runs the Wichita School Bond Issue Campaign?As reported in the Wichita Eagle in May, the co-leaders of Citizens Alliance for Responsible Education (CARE) knew very little of the details of a telephone survey their group conducted to discover Wichitans’ attitudes towards a school bond issue. That they knew so little gives the citizens of Wichita cause to question who is in…
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CARE Dropped Ball on Educating About Wichita School Bond Issue
Read more: CARE Dropped Ball on Educating About Wichita School Bond IssueMy friend Helen Cochran of Citizens for Better Education contributes this article, which appeared in the Wichita Eagle. In this article, Helen analyzes the work of Citizens Alliance for Responsible Education, a group that supports the Wichita school bond issue. As Helen notes, attendance at the four educational meetings CARE held was low. In one…
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Kansas Political Make-Work
Read more: Kansas Political Make-WorkA Lawrence Journal-World editorial wonders why, at a time the Kansas Legislature is asked to reduce its administrative spending, a committee is studying why gasoline prices are high: Political fuel: An interim study of gasoline prices in Kansas looks more political than practical.
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Sedgwick County Taxpayer Relief?
Read more: Sedgwick County Taxpayer Relief?This was received from a friend, and was also printed in the Wichita Eagle. The writer accuses the Sedgwick County Commission of doing something “questionable.” He is being much too kind to the commission with his choice of words. I read with great interest “Sedgwick County budget halts jail plans” (July 17 Eagle). What really…
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Voters Want Less Pork, Even in Their Own District
Read more: Voters Want Less Pork, Even in Their Own DistrictFrom Voters Want Less Pork, Even in Their Own District, July 24, 2008 Wall Street Journal: The Club for Growth recently conducted a nationwide poll on government spending, and the results were exactly the opposite of what most politicians have been saying for years. Voters are fed up with Washington’s out-of-control spending. Politicians aren’t representing…
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Kansas Blog Roundup for July 25, 2008
Read more: Kansas Blog Roundup for July 25, 2008It must be the heat, or maybe our upcoming primary elections, or something, but it’s been a fairly quiet past two weeks in the Kansas blogosphere. Some new blogs, however, make their appearance. There is a new political blog in our state — sort of: Kansas Watch by Todd D. Epp, who appears to be…
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Will Climate Change Impact Kansas?
Read more: Will Climate Change Impact Kansas?Kansas Liberty reports on the wide variance in conclusions drawn by two studies on the effect of climate change in Kansas in the post Will climate change impact Kansas? The fact that such variation exists tells me that we should proceed cautiously before committing Kansas to a costly process that, in the end, makes no…
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Kansas owns the carbon, says the governor
Read more: Kansas owns the carbon, says the governorSometimes I read about the things Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius says and I wonder how does she arrive at such outlandish conclusions. An example is in the article Gov. Sebelius gives interview to Grist about KS coal controversy, where our governor says this regarding a proposed coal-fired power plant expansion in Kansas: “Very little of…
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Wind Production Tax Credits Aren’t Free of Cost
Read more: Wind Production Tax Credits Aren’t Free of CostNancy Jackson of the Climate and Energy Project in Kansas has some tips for citizens and candidates to use when talking about global warming. The article Tips for citizens and candidates – talking about the Production Tax Credit contains warnings about what will happen if the Production Tax Credit (PTC) isn’t extended beyond its scheduled…
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Wichita School Bond Poll Results Analyzed
Read more: Wichita School Bond Poll Results AnalyzedWichita’s mysterious Boondoggler analyses a recent poll that covers attitudes towards a proposed Wichita public school bond issue in Bond Poll Results.