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Gambling study flawed. Ask casino workers.
Read more: Gambling study flawed. Ask casino workers.Did you know that a study used to promote the economic development benefits of gambling in Wichita has casino workers paying for a large part of the social costs of gambling?
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Government funds promoting downtown Wichita arena
Read more: Government funds promoting downtown Wichita arena… it is our opinion that public funds may not be used to promote or advocate the position of a governing body on a matter which is before the electorate. However, this does not mean that public funds may not be expended to educate and inform the electorate. That’s the opinion of the Kansas Attorney…
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Economic fallacy alive in Kansas at Docking Institute
Read more: Economic fallacy alive in Kansas at Docking InstituteThere really is no free lunch. What Kansans spend on university repairs can’t be spent on something else. Should Kansas spend the money that the Regents are asking for to repair the universities? Because it fails to recognize the secondary effects of the proposed spending, the analysis put forth by the Docking Institute doesn’t answer…
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Curious Logic
Read more: Curious LogicThere’s something about our nation’s capital that converts many leading Democrats to school choice. But in most cases this extends only to their own children — not to the millions of children in failing public schools.
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Are you a second class Kansan?
Read more: Are you a second class Kansan?The Kansas legislature is in the process of deciding how wide the separation will be between various classes of Kansans. State Senator Peggy Palmer, R-Augusta, and State Representative Judy Morrison, R-Shawnee, introduced bills in their separate legislative houses that would have exempted social security payments from the Kansas personal income tax this year.
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Public-sector lobbyists are exempt
Read more: Public-sector lobbyists are exemptBut local governments, public universities and Indian tribes are exempt from the limit, so they are able to shower members and their staffs with such goodies as luxury skybox tickets to basketball games and front-row concert tickets.
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Bill Davitt on blight
Read more: Bill Davitt on blightBill Davitt makes some excellent points about the dangers of giving politicians power to control blight through eminent domain. He also explains why it is best to vote for Carlos Mayans for mayor of Wichita.
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The Williams rules
Read more: The Williams rulesThe kind of rules we should have are the kind that we’d make if our worst enemy were in charge. My mother created a mini-version of such a rule. Sometimes she would ask either me or my sister to evenly divide the last piece of cake or pie to share between us. More times than…
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Wichita school board accounting
Read more: Wichita school board accountingMr. Gramke’s assertion that USD 259 spending is not increasing, and that the district has been cutting its budget for the four years before 2005 doesn’t square with the facts as I see them.
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A free society means inalienable rights
Read more: A free society means inalienable rightsWalter Williams Warns Against Tyrannical Majoritarianism.
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Higher Education Wants A Spending Spree
Read more: Higher Education Wants A Spending SpreeSoaring spending has not been spent evenly. The six Regents universities in Kansas initially asked for $727 million to fix deeply neglected buildings at these campuses. Governor Sebelius has performed a valuable service by responding that the Kansas Turnpike have higher tolls to fund this spending.
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A roadblock to private investment in Wichita
Read more: A roadblock to private investment in WichitaSo for the moment, a developer’s plan for a downtown hotel and conference center is blocked by a law, the Kansas preservation statute. What is the problem with the proposed building? “[the problem] is that it incorporates too many materials and features inconsistent with the surrounding buildings. That includes glass, marble, stainless steel, redwood and…