Tag: Kansas Supreme Court
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Kansas lawmakers, including judges, should be selected democratically
While many believe that judges should not “legislate from the bench,” the reality is that lawmaking is a judicial function. In a democracy, lawmakers should be elected under the principle of “one person, one vote.” But Kansas, which uses the Missouri Plan for judicial selection to its two highest courts, violates this principle.
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Kansas reasonable: Judicial selection
Kansas Republicans who promote themselves as the “reasonable” candidates support a method of judicial selection in Kansas that is not democratic. In fact, Kansas is at the undemocratic extreme in judicial selection.
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Kansans uninformed on school spending
As the Kansas Legislature debates spending on schools, we have to hope that legislators are more knowledgeable about school spending than the average Kansan. Surveys have found that few Kansans have accurate information regarding school spending. Surprisingly, those with children in the public school system are even more likely to be uninformed regarding accurate figures.…
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Kansas Speaker: Schools don’t spend all they have
Based on choices that many school districts have made in response to legislation giving them flexibility to spend fund balances, Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives Mike O’Neal questions whether a school funding crisis actually exists.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday September 26, 2011
Today: Who creates jobs?; Pompeo to address Pachyderms; Supremes to make road trip; March for the chicken; Economic freedom.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday June 13, 2011
Today: Wichita City Council; Arts jobs lost already?; American politics, viewed from down under; California parent trigger attacked; Medical board’s powers; Chief Justice to speak in Wichita; More ‘Economics in One Lesson’; Climate change resource launched.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday May 23, 2011
Today: Wichita City council; Sedgwick County Commission; Kobach on voter reform in Wall Street Journal; Tiahrt, former Congressman, to address Pachyderms; Wichita speaker lineup set; Blue Ribbon Commission coming to Wichita; School choice cast as civil rights issue; Medicare reform necessary; Science, public agencies, and politics.
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Judges are lawmakers
In a democracy like ours, should lawmakers be selected democratically?
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 9, 2011
Today: Kansas legislature website; Kansas smoking ban; fighting government secrecy; Kansas judicial selection; Kansas Education Liberty Act; what … it’s not about the whales?; Wichita council candidates; Common Sense — Revisited author in Wichita.
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Kansas judicial selection should be reformed
Removing politics from the Kansas judiciary is about as likely as removing the moo from a cow.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday November 9, 2010
Today: Regulation, Wichita city government, George Soros, Kansas Supreme Court, Kansas Secretary of State, Wichita Pachyderm Club, Kansas legislature.