Tag: Wichita city government
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Downtown Wichita demographics not favorable
Are demographic claims made by Goody Clancy, Wichita’s downtown planning firm, real or imaginary?
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday November 22, 2010
Today: Economic development, Wichita city council, Wichita city government, Recycling, Education, Wichita and Kansas schools.
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The problem with public-private partnerships
As the City of Wichita gets ready to undertake the revitalization of downtown Wichita, we need to make sure we understand the many problems inherent in the “public-private partnership.” The following commentary by Fred L. Smith, Jr. President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute originally appeared on OpenMarket.org, and it does an excellent job explaining these…
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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.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday November 8, 2010
Today: Wichita city government, Politics, United States Congress, Airport security.
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Wichita city hall parking garage closes
The City of Wichita, by closing its parking garage to citizens, reveals the true attitude of government towards those it governs.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday November 7, 2010
Today: Elections, Wichita city council, Kansas legislature, Americans For Prosperity, Tim Huelskamp, Wichita Pachyderm Club, Music, Sam Brownback, Wichita city government, Wichita Eagle opinion watch, Property rights, Taxation.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday October 31, 2010
Today: Carl Brewer, Corporate welfare, Economic development, Elections, Free markets, Politics, Tea Party, Wichita city council, Wichita city government, Wichita and Kansas schools.
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In Wichita and Kansas, economic development is not working
The effort of Wichita and Kansas to retain Hawker Beechcraft, one of our leading employers and a Wichita institution, provides a lesson in the futility of corporate welfare as an economic development policy: Someone is usually willing to pay more. We would be much better off if we start transforming Kansas to a state where…
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Wichita’s alphabet soup of ‘tax tricks’
I want to commend the courage shown by the October 10 Sunday editorial “Get control of incentives.” It takes some intestinal fortitude to speak out against the “tax tricks” (wonderful description) that have been foisted on the city and county taxpayers already burdened by federal, state, and property taxes.
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Hawker Beechcraft might not be viable, in Wichita or Louisiana
News reports that the state of Louisiana has lured Wichita-based Hawker Beechcraft to relocate there is being greeted — understandably — with grave concern by Wichitans and Kansans. But Louisiana may be buying — and Wichita possibly losing — a company that isn’t viable, at least in its present form.