Earl Glynn on January 3rd, 2010

Kansas Clips from this last week, but first some “top” 2009 lists:
Top 2009 Kansas Tea Parties

April 15:  Overland Park Tax Day Tea Party (perhaps 10,000) and
KC Tea Party at Liberty Memorial (perhaps 5000)
April 15:  Wichita tea party:  citizens speak and Wichita tax day tea party a success (several thousand)
April 15:  Topeka TEA rally draws [...]

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Earl Glynn on December 31st, 2009

Friends of Phill Kline roasted him recently in Johnson County as part of his 50th birthday celebration.
Kline turns 50 today.
One roast told about how labor was induced so Phill could enjoy a few minutes of the decade of the 1950s — and be an additional tax deduction in 1959.
Happy Birthday Phill Kline!

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Earl Glynn on December 19th, 2009

This site was hacked in somewhat of a benign way, but affected the ability of some to view posts through certain RSS readers.
A PHP file was modified to have additional content.  The hidden content was added to the source for all pages but and the RSS feed.  The hidden text caused  problems in some [...]

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Earl Glynn on December 4th, 2009

On Wednesday the Sunlight Foundation’s 24 Days of Local Sunlight – Day 2 recognized the Kansas Meadowlark
for an excellent collection of watch dog news and some independent research.
I thank them for that recognition.
Of course, since September, all my original research efforts and reporting can be found on the Kansas Watchdog.

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Earl Glynn on October 4th, 2009

Bob Weeks, the author of the Voice for Liberty in Wichita blog, was the winner of AFP’s Blogger of the Year award for 2009 at the Defending the American Dream Summit in Arlington, VA.  The award was announced on Friday.
For several years Bob has been a leader in promoting open records, government transparency, and government [...]

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Earl Glynn on September 15th, 2009

Today I’m announcing the Kansas Meadowlark will no longer contain “investigative research on Kansas government and politics” and that future  articles will appear on a new web site, the KansasWatchdog.org.
For the last five years as the Kansas Meadowlark I’ve attempted to publish political money stories, non-profit stories, and other information often ignored by the mainstream [...]

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Earl Glynn on September 14th, 2009

Look for an announcement tomorrow.

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Earl Glynn on September 11th, 2009

Memories of the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 are still quite vivid for many, including me.
That day with the morning sun in my eyes I made a mistake and turned on Wornall instead of Holmes while driving in Kansas City.  I wasn’t on my normal path to work and that was the first time I [...]

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Earl Glynn on September 8th, 2009

[Updated Sept 13] According to a Show-Me Institute Policy Pulse blog post about 2500 attended the United We Stand — Freedom Fest at Theis Park in Kansas City on Saturday.  Participants were from both Missouri and Kansas.  See videos of the event below.

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Earl Glynn on September 8th, 2009

A fun Labor Day weekend activity is to watch the high-power rockets as they are launched by Kloudbusters as part of their AIRFest weekend near Argonia, about an hour’s drive southwest of Wichita.
I have not been to this event in eight years, and it has expanded a lot since my last visit.
I need a much [...]

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