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• in Politics
  Kansas Governor Sam Brownback Apologizes to Teenager over Twitter Controversy
  The rest of us received a rather appropriate civics lesson.
  by danbimrose / on Nov 28, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “sam brownback”

 

• Daily Kos: Conservatives Should Leave Obamas America, Move to Somalia

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 698
  Liberals have always cartooned conservatives as the ones who would say "America, love it or leave it." But with Barack Obama in the White House, they want the Obama critics to go back to Africa. Or at least thats what "Hunter" wrote on the Daily Kos on Wednesday night. "This wont be a particularly insightful post, ...
  1 day ago

• State tax cut could increase federal taxes

  
  Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed — Authority: 505
  Another ramification of Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax plan: It could increase the federal income taxes of those who have itemized deductions. That’s because state income taxes are deductible on federal taxes. As a result, Kansans who itemize would see their federal income taxes increase by about $76 million overall, ...
  4 days ago

• Sales-tax exemptions aren’t fair, flat or simple

  
  WE Blog — Authority: 115
  Gov. Sam Brownback’s goal of a “fairer, flatter and simpler” state tax code doesn’t extend to the state’s nearly 100 sales-tax exemptions. As a candidate, he likened ending such exemptions to raising taxes, and he told The Eagle editorial board last month that he’d been advised by current and former ...
  6 days ago

• Administration didn’t listen on developmentally disabled

  
  WE Blog — Authority: 115
  Mark Dugan, the chief of staff of Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, said at a forum Saturday in Wichita that the Brownback administration consulted with InterHab, a statewide association of developmental disability service providers, before deciding to include long-term care for the developmentally disabled in its Medicaid ...
  1 week ago

• Oops – ending balance not what Brownback said

  
  Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed — Authority: 505
  During his State of the State address, Gov. Sam Brownback touted his proposed fiscal year 2013 budget for its ending balance of $465 million, which exceeds the 7.5 percent statutory requirement. But it turns out his budget failed to account for an expected $89.9 million drop in revenue from his tax-cut plan. That ...
  1 week ago

• Is Medicaid managed-care plan ‘boneheaded’?

  
  Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed — Authority: 505
  Wendell Potter, a former top insurance executive turned industry whistle-blower, thinks that the Brownback administration plan to contract Medicaid services to private managed-care companies is a “boneheaded idea,” the Kansas Health Institute News Service reported . “The biggest problems in our health care ...
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• Great moments of 2011: Thin-skinned

  
  Noise to Signal — Authority: 102
  I’m going to guess that for the student in question, this wasn’t the tweet she’d have chosen to see broadcast around the world. And maybe if we all applied that test each time we posted something, we’d have a lot less meaningless fluff in our activity streams… but what we lose in fluff, we gain in ...
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• Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday January 16, 2012

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 110
  Tax cuts = extra income? Commenting on Kansas tax reform, Wichita Business Journal editor Bill Roy said “Certainly for business people, it’s the elimination of the income tax on business income. … They’ll appreciate having that extra income that they can use on other things in their business.” I don’t ...
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• A Closer Look At VEEP Prospect Paul Ryan

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 137
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• Kansas spending is the problem

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 110
  While Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has some good ideas in his State of the State address and tax reform plan , there are two important points that need to be made. First, the governor has said that tax reform is designed to be revenue neutral. That goal means that if one person pays less, someone else has to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Governor’s arts about-face is insufficient

  
  Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed — Authority: 505
  Gov. Sam Brownback’s fiscal 2013 budget proposal includes $200,000 for the Kansas Arts Commission, which he would merge with the state film commission into a Creative Industries Commission within the Department of Commerce. It’s to the governor’s credit that he learned from last year’s debacle, when he ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brownback’s goals have promise, problems

  
  Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed — Authority: 505
  Gov. Sam Brownback was correct in his State of the State address about how Kansas needs to see its population and economy grow, our editorial today argues. And it was great to hear him aim for an ending balance even more generous than the statutory requirement of 7.5 percent, to resolve to “stop digging” the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Income-tax fairy tale?

  
  WE Blog — Authority: 115
  Gov. Sam Brownback may announce in his State of the State address Wednesday that he would like to keep some or all of the temporary sales-tax hike of 1 cent. “But that will not be enough to cover the shortfall, if the governor announces – as expected – that he would like to reduce the state income tax ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lawmakers wise to want oversight of Medicaid reform

  
  Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed — Authority: 505
  Brownback administration officials believe they have the authority to change Medicaid to a managed-care program without any special legislation. But lawmakers from both parties want a special committee to monitor the performance of the private companies that will run the program, the Kansas Health Institute News ...
  2 weeks ago

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