The Kansas House and Senate have passed a $13 billion state budget set to begin July 1. The budget makes some minor cuts to K-12 education and major cuts to other areas, but in the end signifies only a 6.8% decrease in general fund expenditures in comparison to 2009 spending levels. While 6.8% sounds like [...]
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Wichita Tea Party a success
Bob Weeks of Wichita Liberty has coverage of yesterday’s protest in downtown. Below is just one of the video’s Bob put together of the protest. For more video’s, see his special section on his website, “Wichita Tea Party.” Americans for Prosperity Kansas is holding AFP Day at the Capital on Monday, March 9th. Events start [...]
Hundreds brave cold to say, “No Moore Pork!”
Kansas Meadowlark has two posts up today (here and here) that you’ll want to take a look at. While I wasn’t able to be at the rally in Overland Park today, I was with you in spirit! Meadowlark has a photo journal up about the rally. There’s also a great piece on KDOT’s new claim [...]
Santelli’s Chicago Tea Party
You may have heard it on Rush or Hannity or Shanin & Parks or any other number of talk radio shows today. Even if you did, it’s still worth 5 minutes of your time to watch it. CNBC’s Rick Santelli and the traders on the floor of the CBOE express outrage over the notion they [...]
KRA Newsletter
Last week I sat down to work on a legislative update and found myself stumped at what to say. All the little individual items I thought I needed to share seemed to pale when faced with what’s going on in Washington. I sat watching the House & Senate debate and vote on legislation they hadn’t [...]
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