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- Long-term plan suggests toll lanes on K-10 corridor May 23, 2013 · 16 comments
- Editorial: Guns, speech May 23, 2013 · 26 comments
- Blog: GOP tax plans would increase taxes on low-wage Kansans, decrease taxes for high-income Kansans, report says May 23, 2013 · 15 comments
- Blog: Plans filed for restaurant/retail on South Iowa site once proposed for Olive Garden May 23, 2013 · 29 comments
- Republican tax plans would increase state revenue, analyses say May 22, 2013 · 41 comments
- Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax May 23, 2013 · 1 comment
- City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license May 21, 2013 · 86 comments
- Opinion: Why gay role models matter May 23, 2013 · 26 comments
- Blog: Brownback signs 'Celebrate Freedom Week' bill May 23, 2013 · 3 comments
- CEO Gene Meyer honored for leading Lawrence Memorial Hospital to success May 23, 2013 · 3 comments
- Kobler to lead shift toward 'technology-rich' classrooms May 23, 2013
- Former Lawrence resident Sri Srinivasan confirmed for prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals May 23, 2013
- Off the Beaten Plate: Black Forest Crepe at A.B.'s May 23, 2013
- No consensus on McLemore's draft position after lottery May 23, 2013
- Two men face charges in Sunday morning shooting May 22, 2013
- KU football adds Miami Ohio wide receiver Nick Harwell May 22, 2013
- 100 years ago: 'The vulturous Kaw triumped' over Billie Bob Atkinson May 23, 2013
- Opinion: Why gay role models matter May 23, 2013
- Families invited to free 'Wild Gardens' event at KU Natural History Museum May 23, 2013
- Editorial: Hometown pride May 21, 2013
"Why I Left the Republican Party" -- 03/16/13 at Lawrence Arts Center
Wow. Reading more of your comments, I have now realized what a low life you are.
Ascribing selfish, ulterior motives to the woman for her marriage and divorce and her decision to become a Democrat? You're like mobs that used to go around burning women for being witches or lynching Black men for looking at white women the wrong way.
People have a right to switch parties, especially when their fellow Republicans use lies and false association to attack them.
Tactics matter; the ends do not justify the means. The Republicans who have gotten elected and have chosen to go about governing with no regard to honesty, integrity, or the common good will reap a bitter harvest--regardless of political outcomes.
May 21, 2013 at 12:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Kansas science and math teachers easily recruited away
Like wrecking the economy with toxic hedge funds?
Many of those people even enjoy the benefit of the carried interest tax loophole (and others) that Republicans fight so hard to defend.
May 21, 2013 at 12:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Legislature makes no progress; Brownback leaves state to tout tax cuts
Illinois is also "ripe" in the sense that it is full of wealth. Just like many of the other blue states whose Federal taxes basically subsidize those red states that take more from the Federal government than they contribute.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/e...
May 21, 2013 at noon ( permalink | suggest removal )
KU makes sudden change in Statehouse presence
Did you notice this part?:
"Damron started lobbying for KU in 2005 and has helped guide through the Legislature numerous initiatives including expansion of the School of Pharmacy, increasing the number of engineering graduates, the annual $5 million appropriation for the KU Cancer Center, and many others."
If the state wasn't giving out multi-thousand dollar tax cuts to the wealthiest of the wealthiest Kansans, we could begin to make more investments in our state's education system like other states and countries have begun to do again since the Great Recession.
But with the current lot in Topeka, I doubt it. The benefits of cutting theirs and their buddy's taxes are just easier to grasp.
I mean, is a University going to write them a reelection check? Are college students going to buy them a vacation?
May 21, 2013 at 11:32 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Senate approves bill banning use of tax dollars to advocate for gun control
Right, but current law allows local governments to place restrictions on gun use in their jurisdiction, and this would prevent representatives of local governments to lobby against efforts to change those laws. (Local governments in the United States had an almost unchallenged ability to restrict firearms until 2008's Heller decision. In recent Kansas history, it has become more limited, but local communities still have some leeway to reflect local values in their policies.)
It's very strange that you seem to think the right to bear firearms, which has only been recognized for a couple hundred years, to supercede the right of local representatives to freely voice their interests before the central government--a speech that would seem to be more fundamental.
Perhaps local governments should be fully funded by local taxes. But that would require a major overhaul of government in the state.
In the meantime, it's probably best to simply let local governments freely voice their interests before the state government without declaring any topics "taboo".
May 20, 2013 at 1:59 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
KU makes sudden change in Statehouse presence
KU has enjoyed quite a bit of bipartisan support around the state for years.
It seems that it is only this recent group of legislators who are bent on cutting KU's public funding.
Then they point at KU's overall expenditures to argue that KU should be able to afford the cut easily.
But KU is able to have a much larger overall budget than what the state provides the University because of KU's successful private fundraising efforts and research success.
Do these legislators expect the University of Kansas to use the proceeds from its private fundraising and research to cover the loss in public funding?
And I thought Republicans were against punishing success.
There used to be more of those Republicans in office in Kansas.
Seems like the new so-called "conservative" Republicans who are now in charge of the House, Senate, and Governorship in Topeka only value private sector success if it directly benefits them and serves their political interest.
May 20, 2013 at 1:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Senate approves bill banning use of tax dollars to advocate for gun control
So, wouldn't that make the keeping of databases of persons convicted of DUIs to be used for determining whether they can legally operate an automobile "car control", limiting my natural right to freedom of movement?
May 19, 2013 at 11:28 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Senate approves bill banning use of tax dollars to advocate for gun control
Why shouldn't our legislators get to hear from the representatives of cities, counties, and school districts when legislating on any of these issues?
The dividing line of "legal" is absurd. Our legislators and schools and cities and counties deal with defining what is "legal" and what is "illegal" on a daily basis.
But now the legislature is saying that representatives from local governments, school districts, and universities can't testify on behalf of whether something should be legal or illegal?
May 19, 2013 at 11:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Senate approves bill banning use of tax dollars to advocate for gun control
Yeah. Say, "We pay cops to peek in car doors for seat belt violations" to the families of all of the police officers who die every year from gun violence when they are working to defend the public.
May 19, 2013 at 11:20 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Senate approves bill banning use of tax dollars to advocate for gun control
Aren't all those ads about how you have to be 21 to buy alcohol promoting alcohol control?
What about those ads promoting not drinking and driving?
Alcohol. Control.
May 19, 2013 at 11:17 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )