EveryDay Citizen

• I'm with Joe

  This is a piece I've been wanting to write for awhile now, with Joe's name appearing as a possible candidate for the KS-03 race I figured there is no better time to do so. Before I start I want to... ' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:45pm EST
  by Colin Curtis

• Raising the Rent at the C Street House

  A few months ago I did an interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family. Jeff and I spoke about the C Street house and the involvement of certain Kansas elected officials, Sen. Sam Brownback and Rep. Todd Tiahrt, Sarah... [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  by Colin Curtis

• Gay Rights Are Civil Rights

  Equal rights for gay and lesbian people are very important to me. As an unmarried person at age 31, people sometimes assume that I am gay because of my fervent support for these issues. It's at times like these that... [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:00am EST
  by Craig Gunther

• Kansas City Young Democrats Held Rally for Public Option Health Care

  Photograph courtesy of Melissa Carlson This morning, the Kansas City Young Dems led a protest and rally at city hall. About 100 activists gathered to hear speeches and show solidarity for the right of Kansans to be able to be... [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:53pm EST
  by Pamela Jean

• American Nurses Association Supports HR 3962, Public Option

  American Nurses Association (ANA) President Becky Patton sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on behalf of the nation's nurses strongly supporting HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. ANA has always been and remains... [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:46pm EST
  by Craig Gunther

• The Kansas Free Press: 1st Month Anniversary!

  We are happy to congratulate the writers of the Kansas Free Press on their 1st One Month Anniversary! The Kansas Free Press launched just one month ago, on October 1st. Since that first day, the reception, readership and traffic there... [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:33pm EST
  by Pamela Jean

• Students Working for Healthcare Reform Today

  Today is a day that students all across the nation will come together for one common goal which is to work for health care reform and call our representatives about it.... [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 1:03pm EDT
  by Colin Curtis

• Laura Kelly: A Bright Light of Hope for KS-2

  In politics, it is often said that timing is everything. That may be partially true, but it doesn't hurt to have a supremely qualified, hard working and well respected candidate to boot. Especially when you are talking about someone... ' [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 8:00am EDT
  by Craig Gunther

• Kansas Republicans Should Heed Bob Dole's Advice

  Kansas Republicans just received a surprising criticism from one of their own. As picked up last night on Huffington Post, former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS) told a group of local Kansas journalists yesterday that the GOP needed to... [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 10:04am EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• Senator Brownback's Questionable Vote(s)

  I consider myself fairly well immersed in the political world. I read the news constantly, regularly read blogs for up to date opinions and inside information, and am relatively comfortable when it comes to the subject of political history. Because... [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 10:24pm EDT
  by George Dungan

• Simple Facts, Plain Arguments, Common Sense

  I am pleased to announce that the Kansas Free Press has opened officially this week! As many Everyday Citizen readers may have noticed, over time, EC writers began writing about Kansas frequently on these pages. So, the idea was born... [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 8:04pm EDT
  by Pamela Jean

• Brownback's approval rating tanks (again!) in September

  Last week, SurveyUSA released the results of their monthly approval rating poll in Kansas showing a staggering six percent drop in approval for Senator Sam Brownback. Brownback, who is running for Governor of Kansas, now finds himself under the so-called... [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 11:43am EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• Fringe Advise: Beck, Fox and Newsmax for Truth in Reporting

  Welcome to rural Kansas. Linn County consists of roughly 10,000 citizens. Oh yes, they are sticklers for heading to the polls. They also host tea bagger parties, promote Americans for Prosperity, deny President Obama his legal citizenship status, and tout... [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 8:02am EDT
  by Denise Cassells

• Jenkins Joins Texas Hold’ Em to Stay

  Having had very intelligent conversations with many who identify themselves as Republicans, with any luck common sense will prevail when ballots offer an alternative to Lynn Jenkins in 2010. Many people in recent years have come to realize that the... [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 7:20am EDT
  by Denise Cassells

• New Huckabee Spot for Dick Kelsey: Kelsey taking the GOP lead in KS-04

  Dick Kelsey spent some more of his own hard earned dollars to showcase some of his top brass supporters for his bid for Congress in KS-04. Last week, Kelsey posted this radio spot featuring Kansas GOP Presidential caucus winner Gov.... [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 2:48pm EDT
  by Levi Henry

• Introducing the Kansas Young Democrats Alumni Association!

  About a week ago I was elected to be the new State President of the Kansas Young Democrats. One of my first goals was to create the Kansas Young Democrats Alumni Association. I wanted to establish this to create a... [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 2:46pm EDT
  by Colin Curtis

• Kansas AG Steve Six Acts to Protect Seniors

  Today, Kansas Attorney General Steve Six announced a new measure to protect seniors from being exploited by fraudulent schemes: The Senior Consumer Advisory Council. “Our experience shows us that seniors are often targeted by scams and fraud. This new... [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 2:30pm EDT
  by Craig Gunther

• Kansas Nurses Provide Input to Kansas US Congressional Delegation

  Last week, Sarah Tidwell, BSN, MS, RN, the legislative chairperson for the Kansas State Nurses Association met with Rep. Jerry Moran and Rep. Lynn Jenkins while in Washington, DC to share with them what nurses in Kansas want to... [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 1:32pm EDT
  by Craig Gunther

• Greensburg Rebuilds 'Greenest Town in Rural America'

  In May of 2007, Greensburg, KS was struck with tragedy. A colossal tornado ripped through the town of 900, killing 11 people and destroying 95 percent of the community. Left with nothing, the town made the decision to rebuild as... [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 12:16pm EDT
  by Kelly Jacobsen

• Kansans Laugh at Rep. Tiahrt's Health Reform Lies

  It's been a barrel of laughs this summer for Kansas Republicans. However, instead of Rep. Lynn Jenkins laughing at uninsured constituents, we find voters actually laughing at another Kansas Republican -- Rep. Todd Tiahrt. Earlier this summer, Tiahrt held a... [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 8:59am EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• Radical People Need Disclaimers

  On the 27th of last month, the Kansas City courts repealed a municipal ordinance which restricted picketing at funerals. Fred Phelps threatened to challenge the constitutionality of the law, which was put in place several years before his Westboro Baptists... [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 7:55am EDT
  by Taylor Hirth

• Lynn Jenkins: Laughing All the Way to the Bankers

  Representative Lynn Jenkins had, for lack of a better term, a rough August. She finally came back to Kansas to hold town hall meetings (which she failed to personally appear at months earlier). Lynn Jenkins, based on her robo... [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 2:45pm EDT
  by Caleb Correll

• Stimulus Dollars at Work in Kansas to Prevent Healthcare Associated Infections

  The Kansas Department of Health and Environment recently received a grant of $576,000 from the Centers for Disease Control to work toward eliminating infections patients receive while being cared for in our hospitals and other facilities such as doctors' offices... ' [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 2:31pm EDT
  by Craig Gunther

• Republicans Raise Money w/ Dated Unemployment Numbers

  Seems like the Kansas Republican Party is a little desperate for cash these days because they're now trying to line their pockets with outdated unemployment numbers. It's really a shameless ask. A KDP supporter sent their fundraising message into us... ' [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 11:20am EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• Tracking Rep. Lynn Jenkins' Many Failures -- JenkinsFail.com

  Laughing Lynn Jenkins is safely back in Washington this month after a string of nationally embarrassing stories, headlines, and videos. Safe among her real friends, Jenkins is surely hoping to forget what some Kansans have dubbed her horrible no good... [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 11:08am EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• Jenkins Sends Form Letter, Cites Lewin Group

  Number crunchers are having a political heyday over health-care reform. Yet, one in particular, is having a field day in shaping the debate. A consulting firm known as the Lewin Group, aka United Health, whose research is making the rounds... [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 4:30pm EDT
  by Denise Cassells

• Nurses in Kansas Support Health Insurance Reform

  Nurses in Kansas and across the nation have joined President Obama in pushing for health insurance reform. One of the longstanding purposes of the Kansas State Nurses Association is working for the “improvement of health standards and the availability of... [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 10:16pm EDT
  by Craig Gunther

• Health Care Reform Liars and Dupes

  The chain e-mail purports to give "a few highlights" from [HR 3200]... but the list of 48 assertions is filled with falsehoods, exaggerations and misinterpretations. We [found] 26 of them to be false and 18 to be misleading, only... [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 3:54pm EDT
  by Bob Hooper

• Clean Indoor Air: We've Come a Long Way, Baby

  In my position with the Kansas State Nurses Association, I have been tuned in the last two legislative sessions as we have lobbied for comprehensive, statewide clean indoor air legislation here in Kansas. With most legislation, it usually takes a... [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 2:39pm EDT
  by Craig Gunther

• VIDEO: Rep. Jenkins caught lying again, Ms. Smith speaks out

  Rep. Lynn Jenkins' "terrible awful no good very bad" August is definitely extending into September. Yesterday, her parade of failure marched on. Elizabeth Smith, the uninsured single mother that Jenkins laughed at, is now telling her story in her own... ' [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 10:40am EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• Health Care Profiteers Need a Shorter Leash

  The same type of politicians who railed against Medicare in the 1960s are at it again in today’s health insurance debate with the same kind of propaganda. I can’t imagine this country today without these vital programs, especially since our... [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 6:53pm EDT
  by Craig Gunther

• Who's laughing now? Turning the tide on Rep. Lynn Jenkins!

  The tide is turning in Kansas' Second Congressional district. In what has to be described as Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins' terrible awful no good very bad August, the Congresswoman has faced a slew of bad front page headlines, embarrassing gaffes,... [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 9:59am EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• VIDEO: Rep. Jenkins Laughs at Uninsured Single Mother, Son

  Lynn Jenkins is really making a name for herself this past week. No, I'm not talking about her "great white hope" comments. I'm talking about her incredibly cold response to a 27 year old single mother without health insurance. This... [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 8:42am EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• The Great White Hope, from Kansas?

  Rep. Lynn Jenkins is a freshman white congresswoman from Kansas. Did I say she is white? She is. And, apparently, very proud of it. At a recent political event in Hiawatha, Kansas, Rep. Jenkins let her hair down a little... [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 2:46pm EDT
  by Zola Jones

• Excellence in Higher Education

  Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson delivered a sharp message yesterday to the board that oversees higher education in the state: Shape Up. Change Priorities. Set Higher Goals. Achieve Better Results. Specifically, Parkinson told the Kansas Board of Regents that: All of... [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 3:09pm EDT
  by Henry Schwaller

• Kansas 150: Commemorating Our State's History

  Last Friday I attended a planning meeting of Kansas 150, a group planning activities and events to commemorate the Kansas Sesquicentennial in 2011. About 150 people attended (coincidentally!). The meeting was hosted by the Kansas Historical Society, and the... [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 2:15pm EDT
  by Shari L. Wilson

• Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) Has a Secret Plan to Fix Health Care

  And she won't tell anyone? Last week, Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins was in true form, and pandering to her base. A self proclaimed member of the "party of no", she is pledging to do all she can to defeat any... ' [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 2:27pm EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• Wrap Up: Young Democrats of America 2009

  Last week (Aug 5 - 9) I was in Chicago, IL for the 2009 Young Democrats of America National Convention. Aside from being in an awesome city and being around tons of young people with similar beliefs, the convention proved... [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 8:59am EDT
  by Colin Curtis

• Kansas’ Sunflower: Burning More Than Coal

  We’ve known for a long-time coal was a total loser for the environment. Our friends at the Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy (GPACE) have done a great job in the fight for the health of Kansans and the Kansas... [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 12:01pm EDT
  by Levi Henry

• The Founder of MY Humanism

  I have been amazingly lucky in my life to have been surrounded by extremely strong role models since a young age. While many of them have been flawed, occasionally astoundingly so, each and every one of the people that I... [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 12:20pm EDT
  by Tanner Willbanks

• Kansas Free Press: Coming August 19th!

  HAYS, Kansas - This fall, EverydayCitizen.com is giving birth to its first offspring - a state-specific site - Kansas Free Press. What is the Kansas Free Press? KFP will be an extremely lively, well-read and highly respected state-wide online newspaper,... [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2009, 10:05pm EDT
  by P.J. Pohly

• Over 1,000 Kansas public safety jobs saved by Recovery Act

  TOPEKA, Kansas - Public safety programs have been hit hard both on the local and state levels because of declining revenues and the national recession. But, thanks to the Recovery Act, over 1,000 public safety jobs have been saved right... [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• Are You Opinionated?

  WICHITA, Kansas - Having an opinion takes no time, work, money or ingenuity. Based upon my personal experience in various exchanges, it apparently doesn’t require heightened intelligence, savvy or charm. All it takes is one person, one mouth and the... [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 2:14am EDT
  by Kari Rinker

• Brownback says what?

  Yesterday, Sen. Sam Brownback (R) had a bit of a problem while addressing the KS Chamber of Commerce. Turns out, whomever wrote his speech left out a crucial element: the facts! Pitch Plog put it best: U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback... [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2009, 11:28am EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• Lessons from my Father...

  I have been hearing from many different fields of people concerning the almost surrender of the governorship of the state of Kansas to Senator Sam Brownback. It is disconcerting how this surrender seems to have frozen politics at all levels.... [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2009, 10:26am EDT
  by Chad Manspeaker

• Happy Birthday President Obama!

  I am proud to be organizing online for the Kansas Democratic Party! Today is President Obama's 48th birthday and the KDP is looking to make it special! When the President blows out his candles tonight, he's going to make a... [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2009, 9:52am EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• This Sam Is No Uncle of Mine

  Many of us here at Everyday Citizen have been keeping you up to date on all the C street news, as we get it. On Sunday, Sarah posted about Kansas Rep Jerry Moran. On Monday, I posted about my interview... [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
  by Colin Curtis

• Lynn Jenkins = #CPAfail

  I am proud to be organizing online for the Kansas Democratic Party! Yesterday, Rep. Lynn Jenkins (KS-02) gave voters another reason to question her judgment. It isn't the first time she's cast the seeds of doubt -- like when Jenkins... ' [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 10:34am EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• Recovery Act Provides Affordable Housing for KS Families

  I'm proud to be organizing online for the Kansas Democratic Party! The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is starting to take shape right here in Kansas as Democratic Governor Mark Parkinson and Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin announced the implementation... ' [...]
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  Posted: July 30, 2009, 3:38pm EDT
  by Mike Nellis

• Kansas Statistics: What will health care reform do for you?

  I'm proud to be organizing online for the Kansas Democratic Party! Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee released district by district reports on the Affordable Health Choices Act being worked on in Congress. The results are incredibly encouraging... ' [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
  by Mike Nellis