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Wichita and the Old Town Warren Theater Loan
Read more: Wichita and the Old Town Warren Theater LoanRemarks to be delivered to the Wichita City Council, July 1, 2008. Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, we are potentially beginning a journey down a road where there are two classes of businesses in Wichita. There are business owners who seek to earn their profit through market entrepreneurship, that is, by meeting the…
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If You Read This Using FeedBurner …
Read more: If You Read This Using FeedBurner …Due to a change in the underlying software running the Voice For Liberty in Wichita (coupled with my mistake), my readers who rely on rss or atom feeds haven?t been receiving updates since Monday. My subscribers on FeedBurner and FeedBlitz, since these services rely on a site?s feed, haven?t been receiving updates either. In fact,…
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Wichita Eagle Reporting Bias
Read more: Wichita Eagle Reporting BiasIn the article Allison to be interim director of WSU economics center, the Wichita Eagle again reveals bias in its business reporting.
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Wichita Business Journal: Please Explain the Wichita School Bond Impact
Read more: Wichita Business Journal: Please Explain the Wichita School Bond ImpactMr. Heck must be relying on reporting from his own newspaper, for a few months ago it printed the article “Brooks: Bond issue possible in spring” (December 28, 2007 Wichita Business Journal) in which Brooks and Joe Johnson, head of the school district’s architectural firm Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey Architecture say that the bond issue…
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Wichita Business Journal: Where is the Increasing Enrollment in Wichita Schools?
Read more: Wichita Business Journal: Where is the Increasing Enrollment in Wichita Schools?In the recent Wichita Business Journal article Passage of 2000 school bond issue highlights Brooks’ legacy in Wichita reporter Josh Heck made this statement: “Enrollment [in Wichita public schools] has increased steadily during the past 10 years and now totals more than 48,000 students.” Readers, would you please look at the following chart of enrollment…
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Earthjustice in Kansas: What is Their Agenda?
Read more: Earthjustice in Kansas: What is Their Agenda?Yesterday I posted Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius at Earthjustice, about Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius speaking at a event hosted by Earthjustice, a group that I believe has a radical environmentalist agenda. Just what is the agenda of the group? Do they have the interests of Kansas in mind, or something else?
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My Apologies to Feed Readers
Read more: My Apologies to Feed ReadersAs you may know, this week I switched the Voice For Liberty in Wichita from using Drupal to WordPress for its underlying software platform. Everything went pretty smoothly — or at least I thought so. But just now I realized that Drupal and WordPress use different names for their rss and atom news feeds. This…
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Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius at Earthjustice
Read more: Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius at EarthjusticeOn June 26, 2008, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius spoke at an event hosted by Earthjustice (motto: “Because the earth needs a good lawyer”). By the next day, Earthjustice already had a self-congratulatory professionally-produced video available at Earthjustice & Kansas Governor Talk Clean Energy. Evidently, Earthjustice, previously known as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, was…
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Socialism And Big Government Expand In Kansas
Read more: Socialism And Big Government Expand In KansasState owned and operated casinos are constitutional and permissible in Kansas. The extremely activist and left-wing Kansas Supreme Court unanimously ruled June 27 that state owned and operated casinos were legal in Kansas. For many statehouse observers this wasn’t a surprise.
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Kansas Blog Roundup for June 27, 2008
Read more: Kansas Blog Roundup for June 27, 2008A pretty busy week for Kansas blogs, even though summer has set in. At KSSmallBiz.com, read Ken Daniel’s notes on his presentation to the Kansas Health Policy Authority in Kansas Health Policy Authority.
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Warren Old Town Wichita Theater: Good Money After Bad?
Read more: Warren Old Town Wichita Theater: Good Money After Bad?This letter is from my friend Darrell Leffew. Not everyone seems to understand the folly of throwing good money after bad. “Taxpayers are already on the hook” is Wichita city council member Jeff Longwell’s opinion as expressed in a Wichita Eagle article. Mr. Longwell, I realize you weren’t a member of the council when we…
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Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group: Good for Kansas?
Read more: Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group: Good for Kansas?Yesterday’s Wichita Eagle editorial by Randy Scholfield (Climate group could help state) supports Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius and her hand-picked Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group (KEEP). Together with an earlier article in the same newspaper (Climate group to assist state on energy plan, June 22, 2008), Kansans have plenty to be worried about…