Good for Sedgwick County and the city of Wichita for working to keep the Child Advocacy Center of Sedgwick County open for another year. The County Commission will vote Wednesday on providing $120,000 in funding for the center, and the city reportedly may contribute $50,000. The [...]
By Randal O’Toole
Randal O’Toole in Wichita.Urban planners say they can make our cities more livable, our downtowns more vibrant, and our traffic calmer. The problem is that urban planners do not understand [...]
At the Wichita Pachyderm Club this Friday, candidate for the Republican party nomination for Kansas Insurance Commissioner David Powell will speak to members and guests.
All are welcome to attend Pachyderm club meetings. The program costs $10, which includes a delicious buffet lunch including salad, soup, two main dishes, and [...]
Not everyone is enthusiastic about the rise in popularity of Sarah Palin. I didn’t vote for her when I had the chance, and nothing has happened since November 2008 that would lead me to change my mind.
Leslie Carbone, author of the recently-published Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case [...]
Holy crap I am sick of this damn weather. Just when you think it couldn’t get any colder BAM! Oh, and thank you very much weather people. Is it possible for you to be more wrong? Seriously, WTF is with this winter storm warning crap with no results? What a [...]
Most people will probably talk about how sad it is that this guy died and try to gloss over the fact that John Murtha was one of the biggest douche bags of this decade. Abscam Runway to nowhere Lying about war record[...] 
Randal O’Toole in front of WaterWalk Place in Wichita, a monument to the failure of TIF districts, eminent domain, and urban planning by government.
Last week Cato Institute Senior Fellow Randal O’Toole was in [...]
Economist, author, and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Randal O’Toole discusses urban planning and redevelopment on the KPTS Television public affairs program Kansas Week. Tim Brown is the host.
Coverage of O’Toole’s visit to Wichita is at Randal O’Toole discusses urban planning in Wichita.
[...]By Dave Trabert, Kansas Policy Institute
When businesses or individuals talk about cutting their expenses, it means they are going to spend less money that they did in the past. But when governments talk about budget cuts they often have a different perspective: they are spending less than they had [...]
Sarah Palin dismissed President Obama as “a charismatic guy with a teleprompter.” Yet Palin had notes written on her hand during her appearance at the weekend National Tea Party Convention. During the question and answer period, Palin glanced at her hand when asked the top three [...]
In his op-ed Don’t buy canard about spending, Alan Cobb of Americans for Prosperity writes about the illusion that government spending creates economic growth.
It’s an important topic, as we’ve just been through nearly a year of Obama stimulus spending, and people are wondering if the effort [...]
By Alan Cobb
“Canard” is a funny word.
It keeps popping into my head anytime I read another self-anointed do-gooder who claims that government spending leads to economic growth.
“Canard” means a false report — and we’ve got lots and lots of them about these claims.
If I take $20,000 from my neighbor and [...]
