Tag: Wichita city council
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Wichita city budget to have public hearing
This week the Wichita City Council holds the public hearing for the budget.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Waste, economic development, and water issues.
Wichitans ought to ask city hall to stop blatant waste before it asks for more taxes. Then, a few questions about economic development incentives. Finally, how should we pay for a new water source, and is city hall open to outside ideas?
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Wichita’s vampires and monsters
The City of Wichita urges citizens to take steps to stop “vampire” power waste.
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Wichita’s uneconomic thinking about water
When thinking about water issues, Wichita city council members and city hall bureaucrats seem to throw economic thinking out the window.
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For Wichita’s new water supply, debt is suddenly bad
Wichita city leaders are telling us we need to spend a lot of money for a new water source. For some reason, debt has now become a dirty word.
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CEDBR fiscal model presentation to Wichita City Council
An explanation of how cost benefit ratios are calculated for economic development incentives.
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For Wichita leaders, novel alternatives on water not welcome
A forum on water issues featured a presentation by Wichita city officials and was attended by other city officials, but the city missed a learning opportunity.
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Economic development incentives, at the margin
The evaluation of economic development incentives requires thinking at the margin, not the entirety.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Citizen activists and the proposed Wichita sales tax
Two activists join host Bob Weeks to discuss activism at the local level. Then, what about the proposed sales tax increase in Wichita?
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Wichita property taxes rise again
The City of Wichita is fond of saying that it hasn’t raised its mill levy in many years. But the mill levy has risen in recent years.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Water, waste, signs, gaps, economic development, jobs, cronyism, and water again.
A look at a variety of topics, including an upcoming educational event concerning water in Wichita, more wasteful spending by the city, yard signs during election season, problems with economic development and cronyism in Wichita, and water again.
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Examining Wichita’s water future
On Thursday 17 July, come hear from the City of Wichita and others on the scope of the problems, possible solutions, and the perspectives of several experts in the debate over Wichita’s water future.