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The Garfield Expressway: why we have (good) government
We have now driven the glorious new Garfield Street Expressway from Second Street to Kansas and back, and there’s not a bump in the...
AG Schmidt asks Congress to investigate federal-government Medicaid coercion
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TOPEKA – (June 23, 2015) – Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt today asked a Congressional committee to investigate coercive practices by the federal Department...
Our Gleichschaltung: Destroying state government
Two years ago, we offered an assessment of the Kansas
Legislature with the headline, A sinister session. “The temp-
tation is strong,” we said, “to describe...
Interagency Public Land Groups Partner to Make Recreation Data More Accessible, User Friendly
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Agencies Team up to Co-Host myAmerica Developer Summit in April; Release Recreation Data API
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2015 – As part of the Obama Administration's...
Property taxes in Kansas: the tissue and torment of government
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Part 3
In early 2004, not long after a Shawnee County District
Court judge had lashed the Kansas Legislature for under-
funding local schools, urban lawmakers began...
Property taxes in Kansas: The tissue and torment of government
Part 2
Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to slash state spending for
schools comes from his overall mission to abolish the state
income tax; to cover the resulting...
Tax-free savings
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By Amelia Arvesen
KU Statehouse Wire Service
TOPEKA -- Kansas could become one of the first states to implement a new tax-free savings program that would...
Tips for 2015 tax filing season
Adapted from MU Office for Financial Success Tip of the Week blog post by Andrew Zumwalt, Assistant Extension Professor & Associate State Specialist, Personal...
Property taxes in Kansas: the tissue and torment of government
Part 1:
For governors and government in Kansas, the Carlin era
can be seen as the most productive and accomplished in
recent history. Progress, however, didn’t happen...