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Rod Bremby’s Action Drove Away the Refinery
Read more: Rod Bremby’s Action Drove Away the RefineryIn The Wichita Eagle (Roderick L. Bremby: Neufeld Disregards Truth About Air Permits, May 17, 2008) the Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment takes issue with Kansas House Speaker Melvin Neufeld, a Republican from Ingalls. The point of contention is that Neufeld claims that if not for Bremby, Kansas might have landed…
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Wichita public schools: Open records requests are a burden
Read more: Wichita public schools: Open records requests are a burdenI recently learned that USD 259 (the Wichita, Kansas public school district) considers it a burden when citizens make requests for records. At least that’s what Lynn Rogers, vice-president of the board of USD 259, told me at a May 12, 2008 meeting when I was invited to express concerns regarding my opposition to the…
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Kansas Blog Roundup for May 16, 2008
Read more: Kansas Blog Roundup for May 16, 2008Kansas Education has a post promoting a new report about early childhood education issued by the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy. An excerpt: “As appealing as the logic of universal pre-K may be, there’s a final reason to cast a critical eye on it: putting all or even a majority of very young children…
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Kansas Senator Anthony Hensley: Please Stop This Nonsense
Read more: Kansas Senator Anthony Hensley: Please Stop This NonsenseOn May 6, 2008, Kansas State Senator Anthony Hensley, Democrat from Topeka and Senate Minority Leader, introduced a resolution commemorating the 75th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s new deal. Besides being misinformed about the true impact of Roosevelt and the new deal, Senator Hensley wastes the time and resources of the people of the…
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How Much More Will Kansas Electricity Cost In Your Future?
Read more: How Much More Will Kansas Electricity Cost In Your Future?Governor Sebelius and her bankrupt Secretary of Health and Environment Rod Bremby (Bremby filed for personal bankruptcy over a year ago) now appear to have stopped the Kansas house from joining the Kansas senate in overriding her veto of the coal power plant expansion in western Kansas. The legislature’s final attempt at legislating a solution…
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Wichita School Board Information Management
Read more: Wichita School Board Information ManagementOur friends at the Wichita 259 Truth blog have a nice article commenting on my recent appearance before the Wichita public school board of education. Wichita School Board Information Management
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Focus on class size in Wichita leads to misspent resources
Read more: Focus on class size in Wichita leads to misspent resourcesA popular measure proposed to produce better educational outcomes in public schools today is to reduce class size. The Wichita, Kansas public school district is currently proposing a bond issue with a partial goal of reducing class size. At least some of the recently-mandated increase in school spending in Kansas was used to reduce class…
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Kansas Under Kathleen Sebelius: Poverty Grows Quickly
Read more: Kansas Under Kathleen Sebelius: Poverty Grows QuicklyDenis Boyles dissects the 2007 Kansas Economic Report and discovers something growing quickly in Kansas under its governor Kathleen Sebelius: poor children. He quotes the report as follows: The number of Kansans estimated to be living below the poverty threshold in 2004 totaled 297,733, or more than 11.0 percent of the total population. From 2000…
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Remarks to Wichita School Board Meeting, May 12, 2008
Read more: Remarks to Wichita School Board Meeting, May 12, 2008So the shifting landscape of facts has been a problem for us. We find ourselves in a position where if we rely on facts from public documents and formulate an argument based on them, USD 259 will revise the facts, and we will be scolded on the district’s website and the editorial pages of the…
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It’s Nice to be a Friend of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius
Read more: It’s Nice to be a Friend of Kansas Governor Kathleen SebeliusThe Kansas Meadowlark again stirs up controversy in reporting on the travel of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius. The “rates” charged for flying an aircraft like this are, in my opinion, totally misleading. The rate may reflect the actual variable costs involved for the time the plane is in the air. I believe, however, that the…
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Franking Abuse by Kansas Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley
Read more: Franking Abuse by Kansas Senate Minority Leader Anthony HensleyHere’s an update by The Kansas Meadowlark on the abuse of franking by the Kansas Senate Majority Leader, Anthony Hensley of Topeka. Update on Franking Abuse by Kansas Senate Minority Leader Hensley: $53,564 on 161,277 franked pieces
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Haze surrounds Wichita smoking ban
Read more: Haze surrounds Wichita smoking banSmoking ban supporters claim that they have the right to go to bowling alleys, bars, and other such places without having to breath secondhand smoke. That’s false. No one has the right to be on someone else’s property on their own terms. The property owner controls those terms. If the bar owner lets the band…