Kansas Government
Links to TEA Parties held in Kansas during mid-April 2011 originally posted to www.Kansasmeadowlark.com:
A number of census-related stories were written by the Kansas Press after the Kansas data were released on March 2, 2011:
The attorney ethics hearing of former Kansas Attorney General and Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline is scheduled for the week of Feb. 21, 2011 in Topeka. Understanding the case is not easy since many of the legal arguments are over matters that were from secret Kansas Supreme Court proceedings, a secret Shawnee County court [...]
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On Thursday four Kansans filed suit in federal court in Wichita to block the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission from selecting the next member of the court. The lawsuit claims the process in Kansas to select a new member for the state’s high court violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause. The lawsuit asks all Kansas [...]
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Think and Ink: Uncle Sam’s Money Giveaway “Hey! That’s My Hard-Earned Money!” “Ah, the cost of free money…” Copyright 2010, Think and Ink, O’Hara and Hoit. Contact: Charlotte O’Hara.
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Do you want to become a more effective citizen journalist to keep your local government more accountable? If you do, I will be hosting investigative journalism workshops as part of the Kansas City Post-Party Summit to be held this Friday and Saturday May 7-8 in Kansas City. If you are not interested in citizen journalism, [...]
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Think and Ink: “I can keep you safe from all the monsters … except that one. Vratil’s Sugar Tax. Copyright 2010, Think and Ink, O’Hara and Hoit. Contact: Charlotte O’Hara. Related: The taxman cometh… for your soda, KC Star Prime Buzz, March 9, 2010. Kansas soda drinkers to be treated like smokers, The Pitch Blog, [...]
Are Kansas Courts overstepping their bounds in a freedom of the press case? Claire O’Brien, a Dodge City Globe reporter, learned details from an interview with a murder suspect. Ford County attorney Terry Malone wants to force her to reveal her sources: From today’s Hutchinson News: Dodge City reporter is fined for court no-show From today’s Pittsburg [...]
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On Monday I published a watchdog.org article about my study of nearly 100,000 records from the Statement of Disbursements about all members of the U.S. House: Top Food & Other Expenditures by Members of U.S. House in 2009 Q3 Since then several members of the national press have reported on this story or the numbers: [...]
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