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Arts funding in Wichita produces controversy
Read more: Arts funding in Wichita produces controversyAs local government tries to decide which arts and cultural institutions are to receive government funds, controversy arises. A June 8, 2006 Wichita Eagle article titled “Arts panel biases alleged” tells how some funding applicants are upset that some of the members of the funding committee have ties to organizations that also applied for funds.…
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Wichita Eagle Editorial Blog not recommended
Read more: Wichita Eagle Editorial Blog not recommendedIn June, 2005, the editors of The Wichita Eagle started a blog, the Wichita Eagle Editorial blog, or WE Blog. The way this blog works it that one of the Eagle editors starts a topic, and then the public can add comments.
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Government harms those it means to help
Read more: Government harms those it means to helpA column by economist Thomas Sowell Preserving a Vision–at the Expense of the Facts tells just how harmful big-government liberalism is to those it aims to help. In particular, black families have been harmed. “… the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination, has disintegrated in the wake of the liberal…
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Liberal “Moderates” Unite In Governor’s Ticket
Read more: Liberal “Moderates” Unite In Governor’s TicketThank you to Karl Peterjohn of the Kansas Taxpayers Network for this fine piece. For the record, here’s how the Associated Press quoted Mark Parkinson in 2002: “I would say that any Republican who supports Kathleen Sebelius for governor is either insincere or uninformed,” Parkinson said. “She is a left-wing liberal Democrat and no Republican…
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Kansas Spends While Neighboring States Invest
Read more: Kansas Spends While Neighboring States InvestKansas will spend $984.2 million in state funds over the next three years and a record-setting state budget as a result of the 2006 legislature. Alan Rupe, the attorney for the litigious school districts, told the Wichita Eagle that this spending hike is inadequate and demanded more on May 12. The ethically challenged Kansas Supreme…
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As expected, price controls harm Wichita travelers
Read more: As expected, price controls harm Wichita travelersThe effect of the AirTran subsidy is to reduce the price of airfare to and from Wichita. That is its stated goal. If the subsidy did not work to reduce prices, we would be wasting our money. The fact is that the subsidy does work to reduce airfares to and from Wichita. It also does…
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Paying for tax cuts
Read more: Paying for tax cutsCommentary surrounding two recent tax cuts reveals the backwards thinking about taxes that is common.
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No Child Left Behind Leaving Many Behind
Read more: No Child Left Behind Leaving Many BehindRecently an Associated Press article reported how the test scores of some two million children aren’t being counted, due to a loophole in the No Child Left Behind Act. (See ‘No Child’ loophole misses millions of scores at CNN, April 18, 2006.)
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Judicial Scandal Grows
Read more: Judicial Scandal GrowsThe Kansas legislature’s school spending spree is racing the latest developments in the judicial-legislative misconduct scandal over school finance in Kansas. The outcome of this race could influence the size of the spending spree going on at the Kansas statehouse right now. The latest revelations on the school finance scandal brings the governor into the…
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Summary of blogging on judicial ethics in Kansas
Read more: Summary of blogging on judicial ethics in KansasNews accounts report that there will be an investigation into the lunch that Kansas Supreme Court Justice Lawton Nuss shared with legislators. If it is the Kansas Commission on Judicial Qualifications that performs this investigation, I doubt we will see much happen.
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Read more: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first CenturyThis interesting book explains in detail what many people already know: that advances in technology — and in politics to some degree — have made the world a smaller place. Not only have manufacturing jobs been moved overseas, but white-collar jobs such as accountant, computer programmer, radiologist, and many others can be done from anywhere…
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Kansas Judiciary Gets National Criticism
Read more: Kansas Judiciary Gets National CriticismKansas Judiciary Gets National Criticism Karl Peterjohn, Kansas Taxpayers Network The school finance litigation began in the 1980’s in Kansas and has continued and expanded in the 21st Century. The first lawsuit was tragic, but now Kansas is becoming a judicial joke, albeit a very expensive demonstration of judicial activism and contempt for the democratic…