Tag: Sam Brownback
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Kansas Office of the Repealer now open
The Kansas Office of the Repealer is now taking suggestions through its website for laws and regulations that are out of date, unreasonable, and burdensome.
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Because arts are important, government funding should be avoided
The more important to our culture we believe the arts to be, the stronger the case for getting government out of its funding.
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Kansas Arts Commission survives
The Kansas Senate votes to override an executive order canceling the Kansas Arts Commission.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday March 10, 2011
Today: Kansas 2011 budget; green jobs; America, welfare nation; politics vs. free markets.
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Arts supporters make case in Kansas Senate committee
Arts supporters in Kansas make the case that without government funding, arts would wither away. But for many such organizations government support is a small portion of their budgets. Some, like Symphony in the Flint Hills, earn “profits” much larger than their grants from the state, and ought to return their funding to the taxpayers.
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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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Wichita should reform its economic development strategy
The City of Wichita should seek to reform its economic development strategy, as Governor Brownback has proposed for the State of Kansas.
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Affordable Airfares audit embarrassing to Wichita
An audit of Affordable Airfares produced by the Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit is an embarrassment to City of Wichita elected officials and staff, the Kansas Regional Area Economic Partnership, and the Wichita State University Center for Economic Development and Business Research.
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Kansas governor releases economic development plan
Kansas governor Sam Brownback has released an economic development plan that draws on free market principles and relies less on government intervention. The plan calls for a departure from present practices, especially the heavy-handed methods cities like Wichita use.
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Kansas auto dealers have anti-competitive law on their side
Kansas automobile dealers benefit from a law that limits the ability of competitors to form new dealerships.
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Kansas arts funding supporters are misinformed, or worse
Supporters of Kansas government arts funding are either misinformed or lying about the facts they use to make their case for continuation of taxpayer support of the arts.