Monthly Archives: May 2015

April 7 school board elections successful

It looks like the good guys generally won yesterday in low-turnout elections. Joe Beveridge defeated AFP-supported Robyn Essex in Olathe. In Blue Valley incumbent Pam Robinson defeated private school parent Alana Roethle who is using a lot of the same rhetoric we see from AFP. Sara Goodburn defeated Mark Ellis, who...
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Ideological lobbyists influencing Kansas legislature

We disagree with the “pro-business” label in this story and the implication it’s just Democrats who see this issue, but otherwise see it as quite accurate. These lobbies are not “pro-business”; they have an extreme ideology based on the highly discredited Laffer curve low-tax, and an over reliance on the...
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Supt. Allison urges support for schools

Thank you, Superintendent Allison. “Neither the needs of our children nor the costs associated with serving them will change simply because the state faces a revenue shortage. Nor will those needs be met by disguising payments to the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System as additional classroom investments. There is no...
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