Over 55,000 Kansans have already invested over $580M in their family’s future. State Treasurer Dennis McKinney announced today that Kansas has joined other states in declaring September “Higher Education Savings Month” to increase awareness about the importance of saving for our children’s higher education expenses. “When Kansas families save for higher education they are investing [...]
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One of the brewing political dramas of the last several months has been the Kansas City Women’s Political Caucus (also known as the mouthful GKCWPC) and their new endorsement policy – they’ve decided it’s just fine to discriminate against men.
To be fair, the original idea was not from GKCWPC – the National Women’s Political Caucus, [...]
In a July 30th Wichita Eagle letter to the editor, Kansas House Majority Leader Ray Merrick defended DUI Phil Hermanson and attacked the Wichita Eagle for unfair coverage. “As I read yet another reference to state Rep. Phil Hermanson, R-Wichita, having driven under the influence of prescription drugs, it struck me that the situation had [...]
Former Kansas GOP darling Phill Kline shouldn’t be getting into too much trouble nowadays. He always made headlines as a career politician, seeking various offices and then using them to advance his neo-conservative agenda, regardless of said position’s actual responsibilities. Ever since 2006, when he was thoroughly trounced in his bid for reelection as Kansas [...]
It frustrates me when I write my legislators about what I think they should do about an issue, and they send me a letter back telling me about their opinion. I believe in a democracy in which our representatives would actually represent the opinions and issues of us, their constituents. Instead I should receive a [...]
Kansas state employees earlier this week illustrated the power of collective bargaining for the purpose of encouraging positive change in their government and workplace. State employees, represented by the Kansas Organization of State Employees (KOSE), have successfully ratified their second contract with the State of Kansas, which included $10.7 million in undermarket adjustments [...]
The Heritage Foundation is well known conservative group that encourages you on their website to “join the likes of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh” (no thanks) has been caught in yet another scam:
Below is a copy of a letter received:
The funny thing is that the Heritage Foundation, which has been caught through the years running [...]
Today marks a sad anniversary in Kansas history. On a sunny Sunday morning a year ago today, Dr. George Tiller was killed in his church in Wichita.
The aftermath of this murder was unpredictable. In the past year, a bizarre series of events have changed much of the face of the choice movement. With this firebomb [...]
You paid a lot of money to read this – far more than you should have – all for the privilege of doing it more slowly.
In the U.S., monthly broadband service costs about $8 for each advertised megabit per second, on average. In Britain it costs $1.98 and in Japan $2.33, according to the Organization [...]
Below is a press release sent out to local media earlier today by the Whipple for Kansas campaign:
Candidate Brandon Whipple is outraged by the actions of State Representative Phil Hermanson, hiding an arrest, DUI charges and injuring two Kansans. According to a Wichita Eagle article, Hermanson (R-96) was arrested last November for driving under the [...]
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