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What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Read more: What’s the Matter with Kansas?By Alan Cobb, State Director of Americans For Prosperity, Kansas Many would describe that much of Kansas is in decline. Over 75 percent of the counties in Kansas have lost population just since 2000. Over half of Kansas’ counties have fewer residents today than 1900. Recently, the Associated Press reported that Kansas is in real…
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Ethics Require Recusal in School Finance Lawsuit
Read more: Ethics Require Recusal in School Finance LawsuitThe Kansas Supreme Court’s second canon of rules requires that its members, “shall respect and comply with the law and shall act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.” This rule goes on to state, “A judge shall not allow family, social, political or…
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Search Voice for Liberty in Wichita
Read more: Search Voice for Liberty in WichitaSearch the Voice for Liberty in Wichita using Google. WWW Voice for Liberty in Wichita
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Because Government Should Have Accountability
Read more: Because Government Should Have AccountabilityBecause Government Should Have Accountability Paul M. Weyrich, Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation (Click here to read the article.) In an article from The Wichita Eagle published on May 3, 2005 titled “Ice rink figures don’t add up, records show” we find this quote: “Ice Sports Wichita has been on a downward…
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Revolving Door Between Press and Government Turns Again
Read more: Revolving Door Between Press and Government Turns AgainMr. Van Williams, Wichita Eagle city hall reporter for the past three years, will become Wichita’s public information coordinator. I believe there needs to be a tension between the press and the government officials it covers. The press needs to hold officials accountable. It needs to dig deep to uncover facts officials don’t voluntarily concede.…
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Wichita City Council Meeting, April 19, 2005
Read more: Wichita City Council Meeting, April 19, 2005I was startled to hear this information, that the new contract has no dollar cap, as this has not been, in my memory, reported. It has been reported that AirTran sought a no-cap contract, but that Wichita would not agree to that. But it turns out that the city has agreed to what, in effect,…
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I, Pencil
Read more: I, PencilDo you think there exists a single person who knows how to make a lead pencil? In this article, Mr. Read shows us how there is no one who knows even a small fraction of what is necessary to produce even this simple, everyday item. How, then, does a lead pencil come to be manufactured?…
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The miracle and morality of the market
Read more: The miracle and morality of the marketIn this short article we learn the simple mechanism that makes our economy work so well. Interference with that mechanism is not only harmful, it is immoral.
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Kansas Attorney General Has it Right
Read more: Kansas Attorney General Has it RightTOPEKA — Alan Cobb, director of the Kansas chapter of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, today released the following statement in response to the briefs filed in the State vs. Montoy case currently before the Kansas Supreme Court: “As questions and concerns swirl about whether or not the Kansas Supreme Court can order a statewide…
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Book review: Knightfall
Read more: Book review: KnightfallKnightfall: Knight Ridder and How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism Is Putting Democracy At Risk Davis Merritt Amacom Books, 2005 The theme of this book, written by a former editor of The Wichita Eagle is that over the past few decades, the business of making newspapers has changed from a business unlike any other to…
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Another letter to the editor
Read more: Another letter to the editorLast time I wrote a letter to the Wichita Eagle for publication, I said that I learned my lesson, which was that I needed to be brief. I didn’t learn this lesson well.
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The Decline of Kansas Documented By Census
Read more: The Decline of Kansas Documented By CensusBy Karl Peterjohn, Kansas Taxpayers Network Kansas is in a decline. This state is shrinking relative to its peers in the other 49 states. However, some might say, and with some degree of accuracy, that this trend is nothing new. It is clear that the size and impact of this decline is likely to shape…