Kansas
The Health Care for America Now! (HCAN) web site announced a Health Care Can’t Wait Rally at 5th and Minnesota in Kansas City, KS from 6 to 7 PM tonight, which was near Congressman Dennis Moore’s Office in Wyandotte County.
HCAN’s event page said “our partners are making sure Congress hears from voters all across the [...]
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My understanding of Overland Park police crowd tactics is to keep opposing political groups on opposite sides of the street and away from intersections. They try to keep opposition groups separated diagonally by an intersection whenever possible. The police try to keep traffic moving – and slow traffic has almost caused accidents during recent rallies [...]
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We’ve all seen pictures on TV from Town Hall meetings and the debate over health care.
In our area, Congressman Dennis Moore refuses to hold such a Town Hall meeting over security concerns, but two other Kansas Congressmen running for the U.S. Senate have or will have Town Hall meetings. In June Congressman Jerry Moran held [...]
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Tim Latham, a Lawrence High School teacher, was perplexed when his contract was not renewed since he had taught previously for 19 years without complaints. In fact, Latham had always received positive comments about his teaching.
Former LHS students thought Latham was a good teacher and came to his support. Several of the students spoke at [...]
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The controversy over the non-renewal of the contract of a Lawrence High School teacher aired on Fox and Friends yesterday on the same day the first article appeared in the Lawrence Journal World.
TV stations in Topeka and Kansas City have aired stories about the controversy, with some stories getting some facts wrong.
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Lawrence. Almost 200 Lawrence High School students joined a Facebook group, Save Mr.Latham, in an attempt to save the job of Tim Latham as a government and history teacher at Lawrence High School.
Last night four of those LHS students appealed to the Lawrence School Board to renew Tim Latham’s teaching contract for next year. See [...]
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The Kansas City area had two large Tea Parties today, with one at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City Missouri, and a second one in Overland Park at Johnson County Community College. Smaller Tea Parties were also held in Mission and Olathe on the Kansas side of the state line.
Amanda Grosserode was the organizer for [...]
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A Tea Party of almost 50 gathered in Madison, a town of about 850 in Greenwood County.
Every year the Tax Foundation publishes the date for “Tax Freedom Day.” Today, the 103rd day of 2009, is the overall Tax Freedom Day for the whole country.
Tax Freedom Day is the first day taxpayers start earning money for themselves. From Jan. 1 till Tax Freedom Day, all of one’s earnings go to paying federal, [...]
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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