News from alternative media around Kansas for November 30, 2009.
Parkinson balances budget as promised, but now gearing up for tax hike
(Kansas Liberty premium article) Analysis of the governor’s budget cuts, with a look forward: “Kansas Gov. Mark...
The news that Kansas third district congressman Dennis Moore has decided not to seek reelection is a week old now, but the ramifications will take a while to shake out. As Martin Hawver put it in a recent Capitol Rail: “We don’t know who, but we’re...
To an appreciative Saturday evening audience, candidate for the Republican party nomination for United States Congress from the fourth district of Kansas Jim Anderson laid out in detail his political positions and his plans for Congress.
Anderson...
Education, health care, Kansas school funding, unintended consequences.
Charter schools: Two studies, two conclusions
This Washington Post article looks at two recent studies of charter schools to try and determine whether they perform better or...
Illegal drug use and the accompanying war on drugs is a huge human problem in the United States. It’s time, according to some, for a radical rethinking of this situation. A group of current and former warriors from the frontlines of the war on drugs...