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Sedgwick County trash franchising: on the road to economic perdition
Read more: Sedgwick County trash franchising: on the road to economic perditionI received this letter to Sedgwick County (Kansas) Commissioner David Unruh “over the transom” and I thought it merited reading by the general public. The author speaks of the “road to economic perdition.” I had to use the dictionary to refresh my memory of the exact meaning of the word “perdition.” While that term seems…
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Kansas Blog Roundup for May 23, 2008
Read more: Kansas Blog Roundup for May 23, 2008The Kansas Meadowlark has a number of posts this week that merit reading by Kansans. Topekans Rally in Support of Canned Talk Show Host Jim Cates reports on the dismissal of Topeka’s conservative talk radio host. At least Topeka had such a talk show. Wichita has nothing like that. Kansas Parochial School Sued for Requiring…
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Trash Franchising in Wichita and Sedgwick County
Read more: Trash Franchising in Wichita and Sedgwick CountyBut what trash franchising does is to grant a monopoly to one (or sometimes a few) service providers for specific geographic areas. Under franchising, people living in an area will have either no choice, or perhaps limited choice, in choosing who picks up their trash. Rates will also be set by government. The effect of…
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Everything you love you owe to capitalism
Read more: Everything you love you owe to capitalismThis is an excellent article by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. An excerpt: I’m convinced that Mises was right: the most important step economists or economic institutions can take is in the direction of public education in economic logic. There is another important factor here. The state thrives on…
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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…