Tag: Kansas legislature
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Budget battles in Topeka
The following analysis by Flint Hills Center for Public Policy Fellow Jonathan Williams provides a useful summary of the past legislative session in Kansas regarding the budget. Now that lawmakers have left Topeka after adjourning the 2009 legislative session, we have some time to reflect on their actions.
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Update on 2009 Kansas legislature
Here’s a summary of the 2009 Kansas legislative session prepared for Sedgwick County Commissioners by the county’s lobbyist.
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Watkins addresses Kansas budget, Republicans, schools
Speaking at at the regular weekly meeting of the Wichita Pachyderm Club on May 22, 2009, Kansas House of Representatives member Jason Watkins addressed the Kansas budget, Kansas Republicans, and school spending. Regarding the budget during the past legislative session, which ended in May: Watkins felt there was an opportunity for reform that the legislature…
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Find your Kansas elected representatives
If you want to know who represents you in Washington and Topeka, here’s an easy way. The Institute for Policy & Social Research at the University of Kansas provides a service that lets you find representatives for a specific address, or for an entire county. It also links to profiles and maps for election districts.
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Watkins to speak at Pachyderm
This Friday, Kansas House of Representatives member Jason Watkins will speak at the regular weekly meeting of the Wichita Pachyderm Club. Watkins represents House district 105, which includes parts of west and northwest Wichita. He is Vice-Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, which was the center of some fast-paced legislative action this year as it…
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School finance attorney criticizes budget cuts
You had to see this one coming. The Kansas school spending lobby has been wondering out loud if cuts to school funding would prompt a renewal of the Kansas school funding lawsuit.
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Kansas legislative roundup
Highlights of session summarized (Tim Carpenter, Topeka Capital-Journal)
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Final budget legislation still fails to provide long-term budget solutions for Kansas
Here’s a message from Americans For Prosperity — Kansas that, I believe, accurately assesses the current legislative session — now nearly over — and also the past few sessions. AFP State Director Derrick Sontag doesn’t mention the inflow of federal stimulus funds which took a lot of pressure off the legislature. That stimulus money isn’t…
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KNEA call for action overstates case, misleads Kansans
Today’s edition of Under the Dome Today contains a call for action. This newsletter is the update of legislative action provided by KNEA, the Kansas National Education Association. For those of you who might think that an organization with such a lofty name is dedicated to the betterment of the education of Kansas schoolchildren, I…
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For Kansas senate leadership, state jobs most important
Over the past year, private sector employment in Kansas declined by 1.9%. At the same time, public sector employment — these are government employees at all levels — increased by 1.9%. (Indicators of the Kansas Economy) That’s not a wise move for Kansas — increasing the size of government at the expense of business.
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KNEA: No shared sacrifice
Despite the fact that Kansas school spending has been increasing rapidly in recent years, and despite the fact that K-12 education has been spared the large cuts that most other state agencies are facing, it’s still okay to whine. That’s the attitude of KNEA (the Kansas National Education Association, the teachers union).