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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…
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Wichita School Bond Issue: The Election That Wasn’t, and Maybe Shouldn’t Be
Read more: Wichita School Bond Issue: The Election That Wasn’t, and Maybe Shouldn’t BeWichitans for Effective Education wish to remind the residents of USD 259 (the Wichita, Kansas public school district) that on February 11, 2008, the board of USD 259 passed a resolution declaring that a special election was to be held today, May 6. That resolution asked the citizens of this community to approve a $350…
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No Government Trains, Please
Read more: No Government Trains, PleaseA writer in the April 2, 2008 Wichita Eagle presses the case for passenger train service in Wichita. But there are several problems with the writer’s argument. The writer makes this claim: “With Kansas’ vast wind resource, we could power our trains with no fossil fuels.” Yes, there is a lot of wind in Kansas.…
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Investment in Wichita Public Schools
Read more: Investment in Wichita Public SchoolsA letter writer in the April 27, 2008 Wichita Eagle makes the case that investment in USD 259 (the Wichita, Kansas public school district) has a good return. By way of comparison, the writer argues that the Wichita airport, having been built with public funds, represents “an investment return.” Whether it represents a good return…
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Americans For Prosperity Hot Air Tour in Wichita
Read more: Americans For Prosperity Hot Air Tour in WichitaOn May 1, 2008, the Americans For Prosperity Hot Air Tour made its stop in Wichita, Kansas. It was too windy for the big hot air balloon (who could have guessed that might be the case in the Kansas springtime?) but the speakers spoke as planned, and that’s the important part of this event.