by Erik Kain on November 27, 2011
Emma Sullivan is an 18-year-old high school student who, like many other teenagers and young people, is on Twitter. Unlike many people her age, however, she’s also actively interested and engaged in politics. At a recent Youth in Government program Kansas governor Sam Brownback was present and Sullivan, who is apparently not a fan, tweeted [...]
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You can pay $40 a month for 1.5Mbps “high-speed” internet from a provider like or, if you’re lucky, you can be part of Sonic.net’s 700-home roll-out of fiber lines that pump internet into your home 600 times that fast for less than twice the cost. At $69.99 the plan is less than a third of [...]
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When I wrote about the Topeka, Kansas city council’s move to decriminalize domestic violence in the city I assumed that public outcry and backlash would drive the law into the rocks. Surely once the city council had been barraged with angry phone calls, protests, and bad press they would back off and consider less extreme [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 9, 2011
In Topeka, Kansas city officials are considering a controversial move to decriminalize domestic violence in the city after the Shawnee County government offloaded domestic violence enforcement on to city governments. Cities facing budget cuts and lost revenue are turning to many different cost-cutting measures, but this is perhaps the most extreme. Already, the county government [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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