Tag: Kansas state government
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Kansas budget crisis, now
The Kansas Liberty story Lawmakers claim Sebelius’ demand for money would violate state statutes reports on a conflict between the two parties named in the story’s title.
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5 Questions: Proposition K
The Shawnee Dispatch reports on an informational meeting in Johnson County. The article is 5 Questions: Proposition K. There’s also a poll to express your support (or not) or Proposition K.
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Kansas minimum wage
A group in Kansas is pressing for raising the state minimum wage. Will raising it help or harm low-wage earners? And are the policy goals — taken in their entirety — of the groups pressing for a higher minimum wage in the best interest of workers?
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Advocates for Invisible Kansans comment, not one “thank you”
About a week ago my post Invisible Kansans Tell Their Stories somehow came to the attention of advocates of the disabled, and several left a few comments to the article.
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Have Kansas tax cuts caused our budget problem?
The budget problem in Kansas is the result of “irresponsible tax cutting,” according to Steve Rose, publisher of the Johnson County Sun. He really wrote that.
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Essential Government Employees Only
When the weather’s bad with snow or ice, sometimes you’ll hear on morning radio or television news that because of dangerous road conditions “only essential government employees should report to work today.” Wait a minute — does this mean that some government employees are non-essential?
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Proposition K opponents sometimes misinformed
In public debate, sometimes people don’t let facts or reason get in the way of arguments they want to press. This is the case in some of the comments left to a Wichita Eagle article about Proposition K, an effort to reform property tax appraisals in Kansas.
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Kansas minimum wage at issue again
In Kansas, some want the state’s minimum wage to rise to match the federal minimum wage. The Lawrence Journal-World reports on this in its story Lawmakers asked to increase state’s minimum wage.
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Steineger introduces Kansas county consolidation bill
Kansas Senator Chris Steineger, Democrat from Kansas City, has introduced a bill whose aim is to reduce the number of counties in Kansas. The bill is Senate Bill 198. It’s pretty short to read at just two pages, part of that being the list of counties to be merged.