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- Club Magic manager says he's trying to turn around a new business at an old, and troubled, location May 25, 2013 · 45 comments
- Opinion: Discrimination more than just poor service May 25, 2013 · 18 comments
- Former area Boy Scouts react to decision allowing gay scouts May 24, 2013 · 37 comments
- On the street: Should residents or businesses who use too much water be fined? May 24, 2013 · 27 comments
- Police department's case for a new facility not likely to show on next year's budget, officials say May 25, 2013 · 8 comments
- Simons' Saturday Column: KU’s legislative lobbying effort lacks clout, continuity May 25, 2013 · 15 comments
- Opinion: Why gay role models matter May 23, 2013 · 48 comments
- Blog: GOP tax plans would increase taxes on low-wage Kansans, decrease taxes for high-income Kansans, report says May 23, 2013 · 35 comments
- Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax May 23, 2013 · 60 comments
- 59 minors, several local businesses, cited for alcohol violations in state regulator's patrols in May May 23, 2013 · 34 comments
- Bill Self: Security tricky subject May 25, 2013
- Club Magic manager says he's trying to turn around a new business at an old, and troubled, location May 25, 2013
- Simons' Saturday Column: KU’s legislative lobbying effort lacks clout, continuity May 25, 2013
- Graduation and 'stepping up' an all-school event at Bishop Seabury May 24, 2013
- Wichita might fine residents over use of water May 24, 2013
- French family cares for the graves of Americans killed on D-Day May 30, 2011
- House rejects exception from abortion restrictions for rape, incest, abuse victims March 19, 2013
- Free State's Alexa Harmon-Thomas wins 100 hurdles; Firebirds girls remain in 1st May 25, 2013
- Kansas baseball moves to 2-0 in Big 12 tournament May 25, 2013
- Opinion: NYC has seen enough of Anthony Weiner May 25, 2013
Affordable Care Act bringing jobs to Lawrence
This is propaganda from the state, like anything you would read in Pravda in the old Soviet Union. The Giles Bruce byline is neither here nor there. Everyone knows this article is false. The government cannot create jobs or wealth. To the extent that the government does hiring, every single dollar paid for salaries is taken forcibly -- under threat of imprisonment -- from a person who honestly earned the money. Further, Obamacare is having the opposite effect on hiring. Businesses are cutting staff or avoiding hiring people, in part to keep the hours per week under 30 or to keep the number of employees under 50. Finally, these "jobs" are not productive. These people do not prepare food, repair cars, or repair computers. Their job is to take a mop and clean up some of the gigantic messy oil spill that is Obamacare.
May 16, 2013 at 10:36 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Business-oriented political action committee gets big donations, endorses Chestnut, Farmer, Riordan in City Commission race
Thanks, Catalano, but I clicked on "contributions" and did not see any names. There was a chance to watch a fact-free propaganda film in favor of the initiative. I could see the smiling visages of Paul Davis and Sandy Praeger in the film, but no list of contributors.
March 19, 2013 at 3:54 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Business-oriented political action committee gets big donations, endorses Chestnut, Farmer, Riordan in City Commission race
This article is absurd. Really? $7,700 in donations counts as "big?" Businesses and citizens have every right to donate to the candidate of their choice. This is ordinary political behavior in the open, nothing scandalous. So, if the LJWorld is doing opposition research on pro-business candidates, why can't we see some research on anti-business candidates? How about some transparency for www.yesforlawrence.org? They're out claiming that we can spend $92.5M for unclear purposes without getting the money from the taxpayer. The money comes from the Easter Bunny, they seem to suggest. And they refuse to disclose the source of their funding, based on a visit to their site.
March 19, 2013 at 12:10 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Brownback administration pushes to repeal restrictions on corporate agriculture; opponents say family farms will suffer
From the story: "Currently, an individual farmer, family farm corporation, or authorized farm corporation can establish a dairy or swine farm without approval from the county commissioners, but a corporation, a limited company, or limited partnership cannot," said Chad Bontrager, an economist with the Kansas Department of Agriculture.
In other words, this is discrimination. There was no need for this regulation in the first place. All it does is give county commissioners the leverage to pull off pay-for-play schemes, Blagojevich-style.
March 8, 2013 at 3:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
City Commission primary: Amyx, Farmer, Riordan, Chestnut, Criqui, Soden qualify for April election
Bozo, your references to "cronyism" and "moneyed interests" are other ways of saying the private sector. Let me educate you. The private sector is the ONLY part of society that produces goods and services. The government does not produce goods or services. The next time you need a loaf of bread, a car repair, a new pair of shoes, or a new light bulb, go to city hall. See what they will do for you. The hate for the private sector that liberals have only reduces the bounty that we all enjoy.
February 27, 2013 at 9:53 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Farmer wants to highlight need for more jobs, technical education as part of City Commission campaign
In 2012, did you vote for President Obama or Governor Romney?
February 19, 2013 at 10:37 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Rubio misses chance to move to middle
Drudge yesterday featured a photo of Obama and Hillary publicly drinking water. Why are we not calling for them to also be excluded from public life? The media is preprogrammed to do hit jobs -- no matter how bizarre or false -- on the next Republican nominee. In Feb. 2011, a crazed gunman shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and several others at a Safeway in Tucson. The media blamed Gov. Sarah Palin for the incident, as she was the presumptive 2012 Republican nomimee. Why would anyone on this planet assign more credibility to Andres Oppenheimer and the media in general than we do to the Heaven's Gate cult or the Raelian cult? BTW, the Raelians cloned the first human ever, assuming you believe the media.
February 15, 2013 at 10:23 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Statehouse Live: Opponents of anti-union bill say it could shut down nearly all union political speech
This article is fake. The bill will not prohibit any union member from donating a penny to their union. It merely forbids that this be done via paychecks. The unions may continue to speak out however they like. This does raise an issue about excess pay, however. If teachers have so much pay coming in that they don't miss a few thousand every year to accommodate union slush funds and political ads, then they're hardly hurting for income.
February 5, 2013 at 10:38 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Brownback, KU officials hope to draw on free-state history to fight modern-day slavery
Thanks to deec, above, for pointing out that China has millions of slaves. North Korea has a lot also. Some blacks are enslaved by Arabs in Sudan and Mauritania. And slavery was not ended in Russia until 1991 or so (think gulags). In the West, a significant percentage of prostitutes are slaves. Thanks to Governor Brownback, to Kevin Bales, and to KU for bringing this problem to light.
February 1, 2013 at 10:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
GOP proposes amendment to end school funding lawsuit
Being able to read the Constitution is bullying? The Constitution gives the legistature the right to choose the funding level for schools. I have a lot of experience with Kansas schools and believe me, the funding is plenty suitable.
January 31, 2013 at 10:44 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )