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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, [...]
In a case involving widespread rumors at the state capitol, politics, and an exception provided by an old law, the Kansas Ethics Commission ruled that House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R-Hutchinson) had not violated state ethics laws. The complaint was brought by Democratic State Rep Marti Crow (D-Leavenworth) after O’Neals wife was hired by the chief [...]
Today the National Institute on Money in State Politics announced they had updated their data for Kansas for the 2008 elections. FollowTheMoney.org obtains data from the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission and updates its database and analysis for both candidates and political parties, and provides that information online for free. Their grid page shows they’ve processed [...]
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Dave Trabert, President of the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy in Wichita, talked to a packed room of about 50 Shawnee citizens at the Shawnee Public Library on Monday night to explain a new proposal about property taxes in Kansas. The meeting was hosted by the Northwest Johnson County Republicans. This new proposed method, [...]
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Today the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy issued a press release, Proposition K Will Make Property Taxes Fairer and More Predictable. Their study is about a better property tax sysetm for Kansas. This new system seeks to stabilize property taxes and make local government budgeting more transparent for taxpayers. The press release compared taxes [...]
Sean Tevis, a Democrat in State Rep District 15 in Olathe, has become somewhat of an Internet political celebrity with a story yesterday about his unusual Internet campaign in the Los Angeles Times of all places. His campaign report filed yesterday with the Kansas Government Ethics Commission showed an amazing $96,512 raised, but almost all [...]
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State Rep Annie Kuether, (D, Topeka), is a friend of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and is known as a strong environmentalist in the Kansas legislature. Why is she investing in “Big Oil”?
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