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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.
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For Wichita Public Schools, Even Simple Information Requests Seem a Problem
Read more: For Wichita Public Schools, Even Simple Information Requests Seem a ProblemOn June 16, 2008, I asked officials of USD 259, the Wichita public school district, two simple questions. At least I thought they were simple. One question had to do with some figures about violent acts in the Wichita schools. The number of violent acts seems high, but before I could understand the meaning of…
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No New Sedgwick County Sales Tax Without Property Tax Elimination: Taxpayer Protection is Needed
Read more: No New Sedgwick County Sales Tax Without Property Tax Elimination: Taxpayer Protection is NeededA press release from the Peterjohn for County Commissioner campaign 23 July 2008 The Wichita Eagle’s lead story July 23 mentions a new county proposal to raise a new local sales tax to cover a variety of new spending programs. A variety of new or expanded county spending projects were mentioned in this article. There…
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Wichita City Council’s misunderstanding of tax increment financing
Read more: Wichita City Council’s misunderstanding of tax increment financingOn July 8, 2008 I testified at a public hearing at a Wichita city council meeting. Afterward, a council member told me that I had a “glaring error” in my arguments. I won’t identify this member in order to avoid embarrassing the member. The minutes of the meeting don’t identify the member who said this,…