Flint Hills Center For Public Policy

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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The Flint Hills Center for Public Policy today sponsored a luncheon near the Plaza in Kansas City, MO where Dr. Mark Hendrickson talked about “The Next Great Depression and the Attack of the Watermelons?”
Hendrickson is a professor of economics and international business at Grove City College in Pennsylvania and is a contributing scholar with [...]

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Seven weeks after the original request, Saline County’s appraiser, under pressure from an impending lawsuit, delivered some of the property tax data sought by the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy from all Kansas counties. As of May 29, 44 of 105 Kansas counties have not provided all the requested data.
What started out as research [...]

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Recently the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy in Wichita added an investigative reporter, Paul Soutar, to their staff. Paul’s major emphasis is to be on transparency and fiscal responsibility in Kansas government and education.
Today Soutar published his first investigative report:
Data obtained by the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy shows that local school districts’ [...]

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Earl Glynn on January 15th, 2009

State Ranks 49th for Residents-Per-Government Efficiency
(Wichita) – Newly elected Speaker of the House Mike O’Neal is calling for consolidation of local government services in Kansas, based on a lack of efficiency and high costs to taxpayers. The Flint Hills Center for Public Policy agrees with his suggestion.

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