Special Contributor on June 6th, 2010

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, but want [...]

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Earl Glynn on December 16th, 2009

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:

House members eat [...]

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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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Don Jordan, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, sent a letter to an unknown list of Home and Community Based Service (HCBS) providers recently asking for information on behalf of the Service Employees International Union/SEIU including:

attendants’ names,
addresses,
telephone numbers.

Read the text of the letter below (or click on the [...]

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Congressman Dennis Moore has been avoiding “Town Hall” meetings with constituents for months, especially since the first protest rally at his office in February after the huge 787 billion stimulus bill was passed by Congress with little debate and plenty of “pork.”
With many wanting to hear from him on a variety of issues, last week [...]

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A group of concerned citizens met in a parking lot north of Johnson County Community College (JCCC) about 6:45 this morning and listened to Congressman Dennis Moore on KMBZ news radio before ‘greeting’ him upon his arrival at JCCC.
For months Congressman Dennis Moore has not been willing to meet with many of these constituents, who [...]

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The E-mail below was sent to me in the last hour by a concerned citizen who is deeply troubled that Congressman Moore has violated privacy rights by sharing contact information with Organizing for America.
This concerned citizen called Congressman Moore’s office on several occasions asking to talk to the Congressman about the health care issue.  This [...]

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Earl Glynn on August 4th, 2009

Today in a special school board meeting in USD 473 in Chapman, the board voted over a month after the fact to approve the “retention bonuses” given in Chapman on June 30. Today’s vote to give out these checks on June 30th was 4 yes, 2 no, 1 abstention.
For additional info:  Many questions about [...]

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Members of the Unified School School District 473 Board of Education are likely to hear many questions from patrons at the next USD 473 Board meeting in Chapman on August 10.
Chapman USD 473 patrons will have questions about recent bonus checks that total $167,000 and the increases in next year’s budget at a time other [...]

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