In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Dave Cunningham of Flint Hills Group joins Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn to discuss online threats and how to remain safe. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 158, broadcast July 16, 2017.
Videos
WichitaLiberty.TV: John Todd and Wichita issues
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: John Todd joins Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn to discuss issues involving the City of Wichita, including the future of Naftzger Park and economic development. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 157, broadcast July 9, 2017.
Shownotes
- Wichita Pachyderm Club on Facebook
- Article link: An information resource regarding the future of Naftzger Park in downtown Wichita
- Article link: Downtown Wichita business trends: There has been much investment in Downtown Wichita, both public and private. What has been the trend in business activity during this time?
- Article link: Downtown Wichita jobs, sort of: The claim of 26,000 workers in downtown Wichita is based on misuse of data so blatant it can be described only as malpractice.
- Article link: Wichita economic dashboards
WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas Representative Susan Humphries
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas Representative Susan Humphries joins Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn to discuss issues in the Kansas Legislature. Humphries represents District 99 in far east Wichita and Andover, and just completed her first term. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 156, broadcast July 2, 2017.
Shownotes
- Susan Humphries at Kansas Legislature
- Susan Humphries on Facebook
- Susan Humphries website.
WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas Representative Leo Delperdang
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas Representative Leo Delperdang joins Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn to discuss issues in the Kansas Legislature. Delperdang represents District 94 in west Wichita, and just completed his first term. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 155, broadcast June 25, 2017.
Shownotes
- Leo Delperdang page at Kansas legislature
- Delperdang for Kansas on Facebook
- Delperdang For Kansas website
WichitaLiberty.TV: David Schneider on Convention of States
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: David Schneider of Citizens for Self-Governance joins Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn to explain the Convention of States project. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 154, broadcast June 18, 2017
Shownotes
- Convention of States
- Convention of States on Facebook (1,084,689 people like this)
- Citizens for Self-Governance
WichitaLiberty.TV: James Franko, Kansas Policy Institute
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: James Franko of Kansas Policy Institute joins Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn. Topics are the new Kansas school finance bill and the new tax bill. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 153, broadcast June 11, 2017.
Shownotes
- Kansas Policy Institute
- SB 19, the new school finance plan
- SB 30, the new tax bill
- Kansas Freedom Index
- Archives of voting indexes from Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn
WichitaLiberty.TV: Author Shari Howard McMinn
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Author and former Wichitan Shari Howard McMinn discusses her new book on adoption and her experiences with homeschooling. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 152, broadcast June 4, 2017.
Shownotes
WichitaLiberty.TV: Radio Host Andy Hooser
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Radio talk show host Andy Hooser joins Bob Weeks to discuss millennials, issues in Kansas state government, and the Donald Trump Presidency. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 151, broadcast May 21, 2017.
Shownotes
- The Voice for Reason radio show on Facebook
- Video: Andy’s talk to the Wichita Pachyderm Club
- Mid America Ag Network
WichitaLiberty.TV Sedgwick County Commissioner Richard Ranzau
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV. Sedgwick County Commissioner Richard Ranzau joins Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn to discuss current issues in Sedgwick County government. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 150, broadcast May 7, 2017.
Shownotes
- Richard Ranzau page at Sedgwick County
- Sedgwick County to consider raising debt limit. The Sedgwick County Commission will consider raising its limit on borrowing for reasons which need to be revealed, and then carefully examined.
- For Sedgwick County Commission, too much debate. By moving to end motions and debate, the Sedgwick County Commission isn’t effectively serving citizens and taxpayers.
- Tax rates in the city of Wichita:
City of Wichita 32 mills (27 percent of total)
Sedgwick County 29 mills (25 percent)
School district 54 mills (46 percent)
State 21.5 mills (18 percent)
Total 117 mills - Wichita economy and job growth. Contains the chart seen on the show.
- Wichita TIF projects: some background. Explains how tax increment financing works in Wichita and Kansas, and holds resources to learn more about TIF.
WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas Policy Institute President Dave Trabert
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas Policy Institute Dave Trabert joins Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn to discuss the Kansas economy, budget, and schools. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 149, broadcast April 30, 2017.
Shownotes
WichitaLiberty.TV: The Sentinel’s Danedri Herbert
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Danedri Herbert of The Sentinel joins Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn to discuss news reporting and politics in Kansas. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 148, broadcast April 23, 2017.
Shownotes
WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas Senator Ty Masterson
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas Senator Ty Masterson joins Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn to discuss legislative issues and politics. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 147, broadcast April 16, 2017.
Shownotes
- Ty Masterson page at Kansas Legislature
- Article: Sen. Ty Masterson: Responding to partisan criticism
WichitaLiberty.TV: Health care in Kansas and taxes in Sedgwick County
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn discuss health care in Kansas and taxes in Sedgwick County. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 146, broadcast April 9, 2017.
Shownotes
- Kansas House voting on Medicaid expansion
- Kansas Senate voting on Medicaid expansion
- Expanding Medicaid in Kansas. Expanding Medicaid in Kansas would be costly, undoubtedly more costly than estimated, has an uncertain future, and doesn’t provide very good results for those it covers.
- Sedgwick County to consider raising debt limit
WichitaLiberty.TV: The regulatory and administrative state
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV. Fred L. Smith, Jr. is the founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He explains the problems with excessive regulation and a large administrative state. Episode 145, broadcast April 2, 2017. View below, or click here to view at YouTube.
Shownotes
- Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Fred Smith biography.
- Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State
- CEI Center for Advancing Capitalism
- The Morality and Virtues of Capitalism and the Firm
- Toward a Thinker/Doer Alliance: A Grand Strategy for Liberty Advocates
WichitaLiberty.TV: Ben Jones on the death penalty in Kansas
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Ben Jones of Equal Justice USA and Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty explains issues surrounding the death penalty. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 144, broadcast March 26, 2017.
Shownotes
- Equal Justice USA
- Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty
- Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty
- Kansas HB 2167, Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
- Op-ed from exoneree Floyd Bledsoe
- Op-ed from murder victim’s family member Celeste Dixon
- Kansas Rep. Bill Sutton on cost of the death penalty
WichitaLiberty.TV: Keen Umbehr on criminal justice reform
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Keen Umbehr is a criminal defense attorney. He talks about reforms needed in the criminal justice system. View below, or click here to view on YouTube. Episode 143, broadcast March 19, 2017.
Show notes
- Keen Umbehr on Facebook
- Midwest Innocence Project
- Kansas civil asset forfeiture
- Criminal Justice and Policing Reform — Charles Koch Institute
In Kansas, the war on property rights
John Todd makes an appearance on The Voice of Reason with Andy Hooser to talk about proposed legislation in Kansas that would be harmful to private property rights. View below, or click here to view on YouTube. Recorded on March 16, 2017.
For more information on this important issue, see In Kansas, the war on blight continues: Kansas governments are trying — again — to expand their powers to take property to the detriment of one of the fundamental rights of citizens: private property rights.
WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas Director of Budget Shawn Sullivan
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas Director of Budget Shawn Sullivan joins Karl Peterjohn and Bob Weeks to explain issues related to the Kansas budget. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 142, broadcast March 12, 2017.
Shownotes
- Kansas Division of the Budget. Includes the Governor’s Budget Report for this year and past years.
WichitaLiberty.TV: Dr. James Otteson on capitalism
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Dr. James Otteson is executive director of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, the Thomas W. Smith Presidential Chair in Business Ethics, and Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was in Wichita to speak at the Bastiat Society and stopped by the WichitaLiberty.TV studios to discuss capitalism. Thank you to Raul Brito and the Bastiat Society for making him available. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 140, broadcast February 26, 2017.
Shownotes
- James Otteson personal website
- James Otteson author page at Amazon
- BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism at Wake Forest University
- Bastiat Society, Wichita Chapter
WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas conventions, taxing and spending, and Wichita economic development
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Co-host Karl Peterjohn joins Bob Weeks to discuss the Kansas congressional nominating conventions, taxing and spending in Topeka, and Wichita economic development and promotion. View below, or click here to view at YouTube. Episode 139, broadcast February 19, 2017.
Shownotes
- Spending and taxing in Kansas. Difficulty balancing the Kansas budget is different from, and has not caused, widespread spending cuts.
- The Wichita economy, according to Milken Institute. The performance of the Wichita-area economy, compared to other large cities, is on a downward trend.
- Greater Wichita Partnership. Greater Wichita Partnership features untruthful information on its website, which casts doubt on the reliability of the organization and the City of Wichita.
- Activate Wichita, an embarrassment. A communications initiative of the City of Wichita brings embarrassment to our city.
- ‘Activate Wichita’ illustrates city approach to citizen involvement. A City of Wichita outreach system is lightly used, and risks gathering only positive feedback.