Ordinary life in the United States today is regularly shaped by all sorts of complicated corporate, governmental, and bureaucratic systems. Few like this, but fewer still are willing or able to reject the goods which systems of specialization provide. For some, the way to hold onto the ideal of ordinary citizens truly governing themselves despite this complexity, is “transparency.”
To my son, The other night we were sitting at the dinner table talking about Ukraine. You asked what the war was all about.
In Kansas, Kancare (Medicaid) HCBS (Home and Community Based Service) Waivers provides funding and services for disabled residents. Five of the Seven Waivers are fully funded with no “Wait Lists”.
These last few weeks, teachers across the country are again being commanded to set aside their lessons and begin teaching to the state assessments. This interference with teacher professionalism has been going on for over two decades, accelerated by No Child Left Behind and surviving under E.S.S.A. accountability. Look at last year’s tests and drill into each student’s head the answers in order to score higher on this year’s assessment. As a result, state assessment scores go up while national aptitude tests and other measures of student creativity continue to drop. International assessments show the United States descending into the level of undeveloped nations.
Each year one of the most contentious issues the Newton City Commission must tackle is fireworks sale and discharge rules. The tough questions they have to answer include when tents can open, and when people can fire off their flaming balls of celebration.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) ] released the following statement following President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address: “The state of our Union is sobering – we are up against the highest inflation in 40 years, record gas prices, surging violent crime, an historic number of migrants illegally crossing our southern border and alarming instability abroad.
The Kansas Legislature has returned! You’d be forgiven for not knowing it was gone in the first place, but the House and Senate took most of a week off after turnaround. That’s the (largely hypothetical) date when each chamber finishes work on its bills and sends the legislation to the other chamber.
It’s hard to believe it is already March and Turnaround in the Legislature happened at the same time. Turnaround means that half of the 2022 session is over, and we are all looking for the signs of spring! We started the first half of the session dealing with redrawing our congressional map and we ended by working a lot of bills that have been kicked out of multiple committees. Every 10 years, the Kansas Legislature is responsible for making sure our congressio
As part of the western response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, several regimes acted on February 26 to exclude certain Russian banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) network. As of March 1, Reuters reports, SWIFT says it’s awaiting a list of the sanctioned banks so that it can cut them off. SWIFT is a messaging service that connects banks worldwide. It’s not a bank itself. It’s not even, strictly speaking, a payment network. It carries instructions for transfers, but the transfers take place via other networks. It’s just one moving part in the world’s complex finance and trade system.