Kansas Clips from Thursday through Sunday:
Kansas Reporter
Watchdogs
- Kansas:
- Nebraska:
- Texas: Government agencies nearly double their attempts to withhold records
- Mackinac Center:
- Old Dominion (VA):
- National:
Schools
- Kansas Watchdog: More Questions — and Answers — on School Funding
- Kansas Liberty: Cutting KNEA involvement could cut costs to schools
- Voice for Liberty:
- Hutch News: Kan. school funding advocates discussing options
- Lawrence J-W: Schools For Fair Funding group adds more schools, but no decision yet about a new lawsuit
- Wichita Eagle: School funding group hasn’t decided to sue
- Topeka C-J: Auburn-Washburn USD 437 gets funds for shelter
- Baldwin City: School board approves sale of bonds
Economy/Budget/Taxes
- Kansas Reporter: State revenue drops 10.2 percent in November
- Voice for Liberty: DeGraaf delivers update on Kansas budget, other matters
- Lawrence J-W: Kansas and its struggling state budget has plenty of company
- WIBW: Top Economists Say Unemployment Coming Down, But Slowly
- KC Star: Kansas governor seen drifting toward tax plan
- KC Star: Kansas expects continued woes with its budget
- KC KMBC: Kansas Faces Big Budget Cuts. Video about armories closing.
- Hutchinson: Armories to close in 18 towns
- Topeka C-J: 18 armory closures announced
- Wichita Eagle: Winfield, Kingman armories to close
- KC Star Prime Buzz: Kansas shutters Guard armories
- Hutchinson:
- JoCo Sun: Overland Park likely to lay off employees next year
- Air Capital Insider: Cessna issues layoff notices to 28
- Pittsburg: County tax deadline nearing
- Topeka C-J: Treasurer’s duties confusing
- Topeka WIBW: Shawnee Co. Treasurer Can’t Meet Deadline
- WE Blog: Debt ceiling going through the roof
Across the State
Blogs
- AFP: Sedgwick County Commission’s Legislative Platform Protects Taxpayers
- Wichita Liberty:
- Nice Deb: Video: Michelle Malkin Discusses “Safe School Czar” Kevin Jennings On Hannity
- KFL:
- Cattle Network: Kansas State Official Certain Biolab Will Be Secure
- Inside Hire Ed: Stimulus money for C or higher grades at Fort Hays States [Meadowlark: Does anyone understand this is future debt on the students?]
- State of the State KS:
- KC Free Press: For now, at least, a cease fire in local GOP civil war
- Prime Buzz: Gilstrap taking a peek at Congress
- Kansas Free Press: Grieving Parents Determined to End Violence Against Women
- Forward Kansas:
News
- Dodge City: Judge orders Globe reporter to testify in fatal Dodge shooting
- JoCo Sun: Rep. Huntington interested in Wysong’s Senate seat
- Kansas Liberty: Democrats new secret health plan predicted to cause economic crisis in Kansas
- Lawrence J-W: Federal study shows alcohol-related traffic accidents increasing at alarming rate in Kansas
- Pittsburg: State awarded $2 million stimulus grant for broadband Internet
- Topeka C-J: Domestic violence deaths rising
- Topeka WIBW: KS Supreme Ct. Weighs Child Sex Offender’s Probation
- Wichita Eagle:
- Wichita KWCH: State Takes Over Restaurant Inspections in 5 Counties
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