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Old 05-19-2016, 10:19 AM
 
Location: Boilermaker Territory
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Brownback signs Kansas budget and orders $97 million in allotment cuts, slashing KU funding / LJWorld.com
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Old 05-19-2016, 10:37 AM
 
Location: Overland Park, Kansas
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I'm the first person to say that I'm not even considering applying for a teaching job in this state. If I can't find anything in NE or MO I will either move farther away, or find a different line of work.
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Old 05-19-2016, 10:54 AM
 
Location: Washington, DC area
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Good. Maybe KU will not be able to afford to put their ugly advertising all over the Kansas City, MO sports stadiums anymore. I watch every Royals game and I'm getting tired to seeing Kansas University all over the stadium. I get it that KU Hospital is a good regional hospital, but would much rather see any other advertiser at the stadiums. Boulevard Beer would be a good replacement.

As far as brownback and the fiscal state of Kansas? lol.
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Old 05-19-2016, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Boilermaker Territory
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I'm the first person to say that I'm not even considering applying for a teaching job in this state. If I can't find anything in NE or MO I will either move farther away, or find a different line of work.
Well, he is certainly accomplishing the "starve the beast" agenda to please his donors at the expense of everything else in the state. It is sad to see and the state will take years to recover at the rate things are going.

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Old 05-19-2016, 01:58 PM
 
Location: Syracuse, New York
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Unless a star basketball recruit uses funding cuts as a reason not become a Jayhawk, a lot of folks won't care.
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Old 05-19-2016, 03:02 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh PA
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Unless a star basketball recruit uses funding cuts as a reason not become a Jayhawk, a lot of folks won't care.
Most people in Kansas don't know or just won't accept how bad things are in that state. It's a dying state. Even the Kansas side of KC needs star bond incentives for anything to happen there.

You are right though. Start messing with the college sports teams and they might wake up. That's their pride and joy.
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Old 05-19-2016, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Overland Park, Kansas
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Most people in Kansas don't know or just won't accept how bad things are in that state. It's a dying state. Even the Kansas side of KC needs star bond incentives for anything to happen there.
That's nearly every suburban and rural environment now days... Look around the other suburban forums before you comment on Kansas using TIF and StarBonds to prop up development in an area. It's not like the Missouri side has never subsidized anything and it's not like KCMO needs a special tax that people who don't even live in the city limits have to pay if they work there to even function as a municipality or anything. Oh wait, they do.

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Well, he is certainly accomplishing the "starve the beast" agenda to please his donors at the expensive of everything else in the state. It is sad to see and the state will take years to recover at the rate things are going.
I wanted to give you rep., but apparently I already have for something in the very recent past. I tend to not pay attention to who posts what when giving rep. so it always surprises me when it tells me I can't.
That's why I want out. I have some friends who would love to see me come up to the Adrian, Michigan area, one who would like me in Houston, and another three in Johnson County, KS, but with how the Shawnee Mission and Blue Valley districts have been treating their arts programs lately (they've lost quite a few long standing and VERY qualified teachers), I won't even touch that area unless I was working in Missouri. One of my former teachers is teaching out at Sumner Academy in KCK so I have a firsthand view of how bad things are there too. I wouldn't mind Houstin except for the traffic and I get enough of Michigan on an every other year basis. I'm too conscious of the water issues to live in parts of the country after graduation so that rules out Colorado, New Mexico, etc.

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Old 05-19-2016, 04:17 PM
 
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The situation is likely to get much worse when the court rules on the K-12 funding issue. That will lead to even more cuts in higher education, Medicaid, highway maintenance, etc. As a fairly new resident, I am blown away at the lack of concern shown by most Kansans. They will still go out to the polls in November and vote en masse for the same far right ultraconservatives that are killing the state. For someone that didn't grow up in Kansas, the pervasive influence of religion and social issues like abortion and gays in Kansas politics is shocking. I always thought that Kansas was more of a moderate GOP state, ala Dole and Eisenhower. Boy was I wrong.
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Old 05-19-2016, 04:18 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh PA
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That's nearly every suburban and rural environment now days... Look around the other suburban forums before you comment on Kansas using TIF and StarBonds to prop up development in an area. It's not like the Missouri side has never subsidized anything and it's not like KCMO needs a special tax that people who don't even live in the city limits have to pay if they work there to even function as a municipality or anything. Oh wait, they do.
I'm not sure why you think the kc,mo etax has anything in common with kansas being a dying state but whatever.

You may be right about suburban development. I don't live in suburbia so I don't follow it. I do think suburbs are not as desirable as they once were so that could be part of the problem in Kansas.

Here is my point. I was just in KC for business and spent some time in both States. The KS side has barely changed since I left KC many years ago.it looks about the same as it did in the 90's. 435 in JO County is wider but the development looks almost the same as when I left. I also drove around wy County and I'm not sure that place has changed in 50 plus years. I didn't go way out to the race track.

Then you cross into MO and it's building up everywhere in the suburbs but ESPECIALLY in the city. I get to travel a lot and see a lot of cities and I'm pretty sure almost every state has booming urban areas right now. Kansas does not have anything going on in kck and I have heard Wichita has barley changed either.

So. That's what by mean by nothing going on in Kansas. Most of the state looked unchanged from decades ago.
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Old 05-19-2016, 04:19 PM
 
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Good. Maybe KU will not be able to afford to put their ugly advertising all over the Kansas City, MO sports stadiums anymore. I watch every Royals game and I'm getting tired to seeing Kansas University all over the stadium. I get it that KU Hospital is a good regional hospital, but would much rather see any other advertiser at the stadiums. Boulevard Beer would be a good replacement.

As far as brownback and the fiscal state of Kansas? lol.
Goes without saying since we know your opinion of KS.
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