Tag: Featured
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Wichita employee pension costs
Pension costs for the largest of Wichita’s two funds have been rising rapidly.
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Merit pay fairness is not about teachers
Opposing teacher merit pay based on fairness issues isn’t being fair to students. Instead, it’s cruel to students.
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Kansas school expenditures per pupil
The Kansas State Department of Education publishes a series of worksheets titled Expenditures Per Pupil. Here is the data gathered and presented in an interactive visualization.
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Kansas school fund balances
Kansas school fund balances rose slightly this year, both in absolute dollars and dollars per pupil.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Wichita’s regulations and economic development
Do Wichita’s many laws and regulations accomplish their goals? Then, are Wichita’s economic development policies likely to work?
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Wichita water statistics update
The Wichita ASR water project produced no water in September, despite many days when river flow was adequate.
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Mike O’Neal, President of Kansas Chamber of Commerce
Mike O’Neal, President of Kansas Chamber of Commerce, spoke at the Wichita Pachyderm Club on October 9, 2015. His topic was “The Kansas Budget and Taxes: The 2015 Legislative Session and Looking Ahead to the 2016 Legislative Session.” This is an audio presentation.
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Despite growth of sharing economy, Wichita relies on centralization
The sharing economy provides for the decentralization and privatization of regulation, but the City of Wichita clings to the old ways.
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Wichita cheers its planned economy
While success in growing a company is welcome in Wichita, there are broader issues that affect the rest of the metropolitan area.
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Wichita perpetuates wasteful system of grants; feels good about it
While praising the U.S. Economic Development Administration for a grant to Wichita State university, Wichita city planners boost the growth of wasteful government spending.
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Video: Jeffrey Tucker, ‘Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World’
Jeffrey A. Tucker, Director of Digital Development at the Foundation for Economic Education, talks about his new book, “Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World” in this presentation at the Wichita Pachyderm Club.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Jeffrey Tucker and ‘Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World’
Jeffrey Tucker talks about his most recent book “Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World” and how Bitcoin and other distributed technologies are affecting the world.