Tag: Wichita city government
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Waste in Wichita, the seen and probably unseen
When the city of Wichita is not concerned about waste that is easily observed, what about waste that not easily seen by citizens?
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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 regulations bar innovation, but not sexual predators
Wichita’s regulatory regime prohibits innovative transit services like Uber, but the city failed to protect taxi riders from sexual predators.
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Tactics that hurt the economy
Wichita could innovate and gain attention by opting out of the harmful practice described in the following article.
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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.
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In Wichita, gap analysis illustrates our problems
Testimony provided to the Wichita City Council on July 1, 2014 regarding gap analysis and the problems it reveals.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Vampires on the prowl in Wichita and the city council’s treatment of citizens.
The City of Wichita urges citizens to take steps to stop “vampire” power waste. But before hectoring people to introduce inconvenience to their lives in order to save small amounts of electricity, the city should tackle the real monsters of its own creation. Then proceedings of a recent Wichita City Council meeting are instructive of…
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Wichita’s monsters on display, again
While the City of Wichita asks citizens to inconvenience themselves by saving “vampire” electrical waste, the city still lights up its own monsters.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Where’s Wichita’s water?
To solve water supply problems, the City of Wichita seeks to impose austerity on its citizens and force them to pay for others to install water-efficient appliances that save vanishingly small amounts of water. Plus, what happened to past assurances that we had plenty of water?
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Water users, not sales tax, should pay for water
It strikes me that people and businesses that use water should pay for the water they use including the costs of needed water resource upgrades in their monthly water bills, writes John Todd.