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Kansas Crossroads

Crumbling colleges
Maintenance deferred by politics
By Scott Rothschild
September 17, 2006
In 1999, most Kansas lawmakers couldn’t vote fast enough to increase taxes and sink the state in debt to fund a $13 billion, 10-year highway plan. Sure, there were political skirmishes along the way, but the plan to raise taxes and borrow $1 billion was approved by wide margins with minor prodding by the highway industry.
Gubernatorial candidates weigh in on making repairs
J-W Staff Reports
September 17, 2006
If elected, what would you do, if anything, to pay for deferred maintenance and repairs at Kansas institutions of higher education?
A plan for pensions: What’s next for the state’s public employee retirement system?
Legislature faces critical decisions about KPERS
By Scott Rothschild
September 10, 2006
With test scores up and the school finance lawsuit recently settled, Kansas’ public school teachers have launched into a new and promising school year. Most of those teachers, however, have no idea their careers are at the center of a gathering storm in the Statehouse.
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