Aug 5, 2025 | Elections, Kansas Issues, Property Taxes, Taxes, Transparency, Voting
By: Charlotte O’Hara For years, I have sounded the alarm on tax incentives decimating Kansas’ tax base. More recently in 2022 I fought the ill-advised Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion (APEX) bill which gave Panasonic $829 million in state tax...
Jul 1, 2025 | Elections, Kansas Issues, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Taxes, Transparency, Voting
By: Charlotte O’Hara Returning from my 10-day pilgrimage in Portugal and Spain, refreshed and ready to go, I hit the campaign trail early Saturday, 10 hours after arriving at KCI late Friday evening. I spoke at two events Saturday: the first in Hutchinson...
May 27, 2025 | JoCo Budget, JoCo Spending, Kansas Issues, Property Taxes, Taxes, Transparency
By: Charlotte O’Hara This is part two of the saga of Johnson County’s 1/4 cent Public Safety Sales Tax IV, which will be on our November ballot. A little background for your consideration. Currently we have three 1/4 cent Public Safety Sales Tax...
May 27, 2025 | JoCo Spending, Kansas Issues, Property Taxes, Taxes, Transparency
By: Charlotte O’Hara On May 8, 2025 the BOCC voted 6-1 (thank goodness for Commissioner Ashcraft’s common sense no vote) to place on the November 8, 2025 ballot the question: to renew or not to renew the Public Safety 1/4 cent sales tax for an additional...
Apr 28, 2025 | Kansas Issues, Property Taxes, Taxes
By: Charlotte O’Hara In the face of cruel indifference, We the People demand the Republicans, after decades of being in the majority, reduce crushing property taxes! We the People can now shelter only in the Word of God, Isaiah 40:31: But they that wait...
Jan 21, 2025 | Kansas Issues, Property Taxes
By: Charlotte O’Hara Well, the 2025 Kansas Legislative session has begun!! Another year with a super Republican majority (veto proof). I wonder what they will do to us, I mean for us, this year? I went out on the Tax Foundation website and found that...
