The U.S. House and Senate approves the spending of taxpayers’ money, but how well do members of Congress manage their own offices? How do House and Senate committees, and leadership spend money as part of their legislative jobs? In the past such information has been a bit difficult to find unless you travel to Washington, [...]
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A recent Wichita Eagle article said the payout to former K-State football coach Ron Prince would be $4.4 million instead of only $1.2 million.
Combined with the related $1.9 million payout to former K-State athletic director Tim Weiser, the $6.3 million in wasted salaries at K-State is staggering.
Why not fill all 50,000 seats at Bill Snyder Family Football [...]
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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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The top Meadowlark topics for 2008 were all about political money and governmental ethics. The following is a topic summary with details given below.
1. New reports for last minute political money can make a difference.
2. More transparency is needed in Kansas governmental ethics.
3. Why is franking abuse ignored?
4. Why do political appointments often correlate [...]
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Last week the Campaign Disclosure Project gave Kansas a “better” grade in campaign disclosure for 2008. We’ve “improved” all the way to a “D+” from an “F” a few years ago. Sadly, even worse than this grade is the reporting of campaign finance stories by the Kansas press.
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The editorial in today’s Kansas City Star, “Wanted: Fiscal responsibility in candidate plans,” compared proposals by Senators Obama and McCain:
Experts say both candidates’ economic proposals would increase the federal deficit. That’s unacceptable. The country is ready for a president who will model fiscal responsibility.
The topic of this editorial is welcome, but why [...]
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