Tag: Featured
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National economic statistics
Gross Domestic Product and spending, in an interactive visualization.
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Decoding the Kansas teachers union
Explaining to Kansans what the teachers union really means in its public communications.
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Trump and school choice
Could a President Trump bring more school choice to Kansas?
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Did the Kansas Supreme Court read these cases?
The merit system of judicial selection in Kansas has sprung a leak, finds the United States Supreme Court.
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WichtaLiberty.TV: Congressman Mike Pompeo
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: United States Representative Mike Pompeo, a Wichita Republican who represents the Kansas fourth district. Topics include elections, judicial retention, foreign affairs, and immigration.
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How would higher Kansas taxes help?
Candidates in Kansas who promise more spending ought to explain just how higher taxes will — purportedly — help the Kansas economy.
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Kansas Democrats: They don’t add it up — or they don’t tell us
Kansas Democrats (and some Republicans) are campaigning on some very expensive programs, and they’re aren’t adding it up for us.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Wichita and Kansas economics, and government investment
Wichita sells a hotel, more subsidy for downtown, Kansas newspaper editorialists fall for a lobbyist’s tale, how Kansas can learn from Arizona schools, and government investment.
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In Sedgwick County, Norton’s misplaced concern for an industry
In the campaign for Sedgwick County Commission, the incumbent Tim Norton touts his experience, judgment, “intellectual stamina, thirst for data and feedback,” and his efforts in economic development. Following, from January 2013, an example of how uninformed he is regarding basic facts about the Kansas economy.
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Wichita, give back the Hyatt proceeds
Instead of spending the proceeds of the Hyatt hotel sale, the city should honor those who paid for the hotel — the city’s taxpayers.
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Wichita MSA employment
An interactive visualization of Wichita-area employment by industry.
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Tim Norton: Saving farms from people and their preferences
Sedgwick County Commissioner Tim Norton’s record is different from what he has actually done.