Tag: Open records
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Kansas Attorney General to provide training on open records, meetings
From the Kansas Meadowlark. Click on Kansas Attorney General to provide training on Open Records & Open Meetings for details.
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Sunshine Review completes county effort nationwide
Sunshine Review, a site devoted to government transparency, openness and accountability at the state and local level, has competed an effort to evaluate all United States counties on their transparency.
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Articles of Interest
Government intervention, Kansas budget, open records, Obamanomics, social security.
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Wichita downtown arena open records failure
Yesterday, the company that manages the Intrust Bank Arena (the downtown Wichita arena) announced a lease with the arena’s flagship tenant, the Wichita Thunder hockey team. But we don’t know the details of the lease. Unbelievably, some Sedgwick County Commissioners and managers are okay with that.
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Articles of Interest
American exceptionalism, longer school days, landfill violations, Kansas vs. Missouri, open government.
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Articles of Interest
Electric cars, Obama and education reform, Kansas online records, Proposition K.
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Articles of Interest
Socialism is Evil (Walter E. Williams) A reminder from Professor Williams of George Mason University as to why taxation is wrong, and it’s both political parties that are guilty. “The essence of socialism is the attenuation and ultimate abolition of private property rights. Attacks on private property include, but are not limited to, confiscating the…
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Should Wichita Identify Superintendent Finalists?
When USD 259, the Wichita public school district, draws criticism from the Wichita Eagle’s Rhonda Holman, you know they’ve really done something wrong. Her column of today (Identify finalists for superintendent) requests that the Wichita school district make public the names of the finalists in its search for superintendent. Her request is likely to remain…
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President Obama on Government Transparency
The way to make a government responsible is not simply to enlist the services of responsible men and women, or to sign laws that ensure that they never stray. The way to make government responsible is to hold it accountable. And the way to make government accountable is make it transparent so that the American…
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Open Records Resource Site for Kansas
The Kansas Meadowlark has an informational page featuring descriptions of websites about open records and information about government. The link is kansasmeadowlark.com/open-records.
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Records requests are not always easy
It seems that citizens all over the country have trouble with public school districts and records requests. Sometime you have to battle not only the school district, but also third parties such as teachers unions.
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Wichita Public School District: Taxation Without Information is the Policy
Taxation without information. I wish I could take credit for inventing this phrase that I recently heard someone use. It captures very well the key characteristic of USD 259, the Wichita public school district, and its campaign for the proposed 2008 bond issue. This school district resists providing information that will help journalists and citizens…