Tag: Kansas state government
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‘Kansas Reporter’ launched
This week the Kansas Policy Institute announced the launch of KansasReporter, a new news service covering Kansas government. Combined with some other relatively new sources of news, analysis, and commentary — Kansas Liberty, Kansas Watchdog, State of the State, Kansas and a few older sources like Kansas Meadowlark and Voice For Liberty in Wichita –…
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More problems with Kansas judicial selection noted
Kansas University law professor Stephen J. Ware has researched and written extensively about the processes that states use to select justices to their high courts. Kansas, as it turns out, is at the extreme end of the spectrum of the methods the states use. … Now a legal writer has made an argument that our…
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Kansas legislative duo to update Pachyderms
Kansas Representatives Don Myers (Republican from Derby) and Pete DeGraaf (Republican from Mulvane) will jointly present “An update on the financial status of Kansas” at the Wichita Pachyderm Club on Friday December 11.
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Kansas news digest
News from alternative media around Kansas for December 7, 2009.
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Kansas news digest
News from alternative media around Kansas for November 30, 2009.
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Play Powerball for the good of the Kansas budget?
In an explanation presented to the Kansas House Appropriations Committee of how the Kansas state budget was balanced by Governor Mark Parkinson Monday, there’s a line item “Powerball income tax windfall.” The amount is $3.1 million, the result of a Kansan having won the multi-state jackpot not long ago.
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At House Appropriations, Chappell presents Kansas school funding ideas
Topeka, Kansas — At today’s meeting of the Kansas House Appropriations Committee, Walt Chappell presented ideas on increasing efficiency and reducing cost in Kansas schools.
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Extra money in Kansas school funds could help with budget
Continuing a debate on Kansas school funding on the KPTS television public affairs program Kansas Week, Kansas Policy Institute (formerly the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy) President Dave Trabert appeared tonight to present KPI’s findings about school funding. While school spending advocates have criticized these findings, there’s really good news for Kansas in the…
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Wiggans, drug profiteer, in race to be Kansas governor
I’m waiting for this headline to pop up in Kansas newspapers or blogs. But how else will Kansas leftists be able to describe Tom Wiggans, the newly announced candidate for the Democratic party nomination for Kansas governor? Described by the Associated Press as “a former pharmaceutical company executive” — wait, doesn’t that describe a person…
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‘Efficiency Kansas’ introduced in Wichita
At stops in Topeka and Wichita, Kansas officials introduced the Efficiency Kansas loan program. This is a program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as the stimulus bill. In Kansas, the State Energy Office, a subsidiary of the Kansas Corporation Commission, was awarded $38 million to foster energy efficiency…
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Kansas economy debated in Wichita
Last Thursday at a meeting of the City Clerks and Municipal Finance Officers Association of Kansas, the effectiveness of the federal economic stimulus and the Kansas economy were discussed. Americans For Prosperity National Director of State Operations Alan Cobb and Kansas Secretery of Revenue Joan Wagnon were the participants, with Dale Goter, Wichita Governmental Relations…
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Failure of one program doesn’t justify forming another
The blogger at the KRA got it just right in the post Liberal-socialists ignore government failure in insuring children.