Digest for Jan 31, 2010 (weekend edition)

Kansas Clips from Thursday through Sunday:

Watchdogs on State Issues

• Kansas:
  • Legislative Post Audits Show Budget Savings Are Available
  • State of the Union Roundup
• Oklahoma:  ‘No’ to gov’t tracking of Okla. driver’s licenses
• Mackinac Center:
  • Michael Moore’s Anti-Greed Film To Be Subsidized by Michigan Taxpayers
  • Doctor Shortages and Socialized Medicine
• New Hampshire:  Gingrich to Tea Partiers- “They were right.”

Kansas Days 2010

• Kansas Watchdog:  Kansas Republican Party Treasurer Explains FEC Reporting
  

  Senator Brownback at Kansas Day 2010 on Saturday in Topeka

  Problems

• KC Star:
  • Tiahrt takes on Moran for comments about Tiahrt’s family [See Kansas Meadowlark video of Tiahrt's comments]
  • Documents disclose federal audit of Kansas GOP
• Prime Buzz:  Tiahrt to Moran: Attacking my family is “out of bounds”
• Wichita Liberty:  At Kansas Days, the fourth district Congressional campaign is on
• Wichita Eagle:
  • Gates to be honored as Kansan of the Year
  • Kan. GOP tussles over statement, Senate race
  • Brownback lays out platform for growth to fellow Republicans
• Hutch News:  Barbs grow more pointed in Kan. GOP Senate race
• Topeka C-J:  Divided GOP approves statement

Kansas Government

• Wichita Liberty:  Cause of Kansas budget gap is spending
• Kansas Reporter:
  • Speaker Pro Tem calls for simpler Kansas tax codes
  • Kansas’ January tax revenues come in $18 million low

Kansas Business/Economy/Budget/Taxes

• KC Star:  KC foreclosure notices up nearly 11% in 2009
• Wichita Eagle: Speaker Pro Tem calls for simpler Kansas tax codes
  • Bank of Kansas parent reports lower earnings, regulatory action
  • Cessna sees sales, profit declines in fourth quarter
• Hutchinson:
  • Colo. plant may draw on Kansas workforce
  • Setbacks, employment shortfall cost Collins Bus Corp
• Pittsburg:  Kansas House panel votes against tax bill
• KCTV5:  Kan. Regulators Approve $17 Million Increase For Westar
• KC Biz:  U.S. economy posts fastest growth in six years in fourth quarter

• Wichitopekington:  Pay raises for state employees unlikely, lawmakers say
• KC Biz:  Overland Park cuts 61 jobs
• KC Star:  [Meadowlark:  Strange mix:  bonuses and firings]
  • Overland Park lays off 42
  • Overland Park: Top managers got $140,000 in bonuses last year

Kansas Schools

• Pittsburg:  USD 250 cuts after-school tutoring
• Meadowlark:  The Schools for Fair Funding meeting scheduled for Friday, Jan 29, was canceled due to weather.

Kansas Campaign 2010

• Wichita Eagle:
  • County Treasurer Estes to run for same office at state level
  • Tiahrt, Moran debate in Topeka
• Topeka WIBW:  Jenkins Raises $215,000 In 4th Quarter Of 2009
• KC Star:  Only Democratic candidate to exit Kansas governor’s race

Across the State

Blogs

• Wichita Liberty:
  • Kansas teachers union makes it easy to ask for money
  • Spalding lecture examined liberty, progressivism
• KFL:
  • Pro-life leader bemoans abortion harms at March for Life
  • Kansas & Haiti: Planned Parenthood vs Maternal care

• WE Blog:  Direct some anger at Roberts, Brownback [Meadowlark:  Or perhaps direct some anger at the biased Eagle for not trying to understand those trying to stop something that likely will have no accountability and not achieve anything?]
• Midwest Voices:
  • Palin’s right to defend Tebow’s Super Bowl ad
  • Racist remark of Chris Matthews still resounds

• Forward Kansas:  Our Trial of Scott Roeder
• Dome on the Range:  Dome Droppings

News

• Hays:  Letter:  Deep cuts at Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas
• Hutchinson:
  • Swift guilty verdict for Tiller’s killer
  • Clark Co. coffers may be richer after $1M seizure
  • Death penalty debate now inevitable
  • Five questions with Sen. Teichman of the 33rd District
• KC Biz:  Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. bans Mission Bank employee from banking
• KC Star:
  • Roeder jury foreman: Abortion not jurors’ concern in verdict
  • Kansas Senate takes up repeal of death penalty
• KCK:  KCK Bishop among eight against death penalty
• Lawrence J-W:  Kansas Legislature poised to take up death penalty repeal
• Topeka C-J:  KDHE says buyout will happen in Treece
• Topeka WIBW:
• Wichita Eagle:  Ogden mayor acknowledges spending time in prison

YouTube

• Political Math:  What Does The Federal Budget Freeze Look Like

Tags: Kansas Days 2010, Sam Brownback