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Kansas Blog Roundup for June 6, 2008
Read more: Kansas Blog Roundup for June 6, 2008At Voice For Liberty in Wichita, guest author James Barfield contributes Wichita City Manager Search: Look Before You Leap, urging Wichita to be wary of the presumptive new city manager, Pat Salerno. Mr. Barfield has done some investigation on his own, and uncovers some troubling facts. An abridged version of this post was printed in…
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Wichita School District Economic Impact
Read more: Wichita School District Economic ImpactIn February 2008, Janet Harrah of the Center for Economic Development and Business Research at Wichita State University produced a report titled “Wichita Public Schools: Impact Analysis Operations Impact, Bond Impact and Success Measures.” This report painted a glowing picture of the USD 259 (Wichita, Kansas public school district) bond issue in 2000. The district…
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Tax Abatements in Wichita
Read more: Tax Abatements in WichitaA few months ago I spoke before this council asking that you not grant a tax abatement. At that time I was told that granting a property tax abatement doesn’t have any impact on City of Wichita spending. I found this quite remarkable, that new homes and buildings can be built but not consume any…
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Wichita City Manager Search: Look Before You Leap
Read more: Wichita City Manager Search: Look Before You LeapIn the business world, there’s an old adage that says “look before you leap.” So, upon hearing that the Wichita city council was going to hire the only city manager candidate interviewed, I decided to do some looking. What I have seen thus far, has not been all that pretty to me. One of the…
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The smoking ban in Wichita
Read more: The smoking ban in WichitaUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine professor Dr. Rick Kellerman is on the front page of the May 30 Wichita Eagle. Kellerman is upset that a complete ban on smoking is not expected to be adopted by the city council at their June 3 meeting.
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Support the Wichita School Bond Issue For Our Community
Read more: Support the Wichita School Bond Issue For Our CommunityIn a letter printed in the May 30, 2008 Wichita Eagle, Margaret Wooldridge of Park City, Kansas criticizes opponents of the proposed bond issue for USD 259, the Wichita, Kansas public school district. The mysterious “Boondoggler” at Wichita 259 Truth exposes the several problems with this letter in the post BOE Meetings and Letters. In…
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Kansas Blog Roundup for May 30, 2008
Read more: Kansas Blog Roundup for May 30, 2008Abortion politics were at the forefront in Kansas this week. Robert Novak’s column about Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (A Pro-Choicer’s Dream Veep as printed in the Washington Post) revealed some previously-unknown information about the relationship between her and the notorious late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller of Wichita. The KRA comments and links to Novak’s…
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Wichita Public Schools as a Public Good
Read more: Wichita Public Schools as a Public GoodSupporters of the proposed bond issue for USD 259, the Wichita, Kansas public school district, portray Wichita’s public schools as a “public good.” Therefore, the entire community should pay for — and be happy to pay for — the ongoing operations of the schools, and should be willing to invest in a large bond issue…
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Wichita School Bond Issue: Who Is Running the Survey?
Read more: Wichita School Bond Issue: Who Is Running the Survey?A recent newspaper article reports on a telephone survey regarding a proposed bond issue for USD 259, the Wichita, Kansas public school district. (“Pro-bond group conducts survey,” May 22, 2008 Wichita Eagle.) The article starts as follows: The citizen group that supports a proposed $350 million bond issue for Wichita schools is conducting a telephone…
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Let’s Spend on Wichita School Facilities, But Not Maintain Them?
Read more: Let’s Spend on Wichita School Facilities, But Not Maintain Them?A writer in The Wichita Eagle (May 21, 2008) makes the case that since one of the persons opposed to the proposed USD 259 (Wichita public school district) bond issue in 2008 hasn’t been in a Wichita public school for many years, he isn’t as credible as he could be. If he would take a…
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The Energy Policy Goals of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius
Read more: The Energy Policy Goals of Kansas Governor Kathleen SebeliusThe Kansas Meadowlark gets it just right in this quote from a recent article: “Unfortunately Sebelius’ energy policy is more about winning elections than solving long-term energy problems.” Most Kansans realize that Kathleen Sebelius’ national ambitions are more important to her than the good governance of the State of Kansas. Her policy switch on the…
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A Kansas Blogroll
Read more: A Kansas BlogrollI use Google Reader to read Kansas blogs. The following list represents all the Kansas blogs I know of that publish an RSS feed (not all do) and that appear not to have been abandoned. If you know of blogs that should appear on this list, please send notice of it to me at bob.weeks@gmail.com.