With the GOP establishment pointing them toward the exit of the presidential nomination race, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are pointing to the Kansas Jayhawks. “I’m going to take Kansas as a model,” Gingrich said Sunday. He noted that in Saturday’s NCAA semifinal game against Ohio State, Bill Self’s Jayhawks “were down nine points at the half. That is the second-largest margin to come back from in the Final Four Series.” Asked on “Fox News Sunday” about talk of dropping out, Santorum said: “You should’ve told Kansas that last night when they were down almost 20 points in the first half. This race isn’t even at halftime yet. We haven’t even selected half the delegates yet. Gov. Romney is not halfway to the magic number and, you know, we look at the calendar ahead, and we feel very, very good about where we are going.” But front-runner Mitt Romney could get a boost Tuesday, with a total 95 delegates up for grabs in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
Federal reports keep showing that the economy is growing, so why isn’t it being felt by most Americans? Because 93 percent of the income growth in 2010 went to the wealthiest 1 percent of American households, according to a new study by a University of California economist. “While never putting a premium on economic equality, America has always prided itself on being the pre-eminent land of economic opportunity,” columnist Harold Meyerson wrote. “If all of this nation’s wealth is captured by a narrow stratum of the very rich, however, that claim is relegated to history’s dustbin.”
Last week’s upbeat update on the Wichita Area Technical College and National Center for Aviation Training won praise from the Sedgwick County commissioners, and no wonder. In his 15 months as WATC president, Tony Kinkel has stabilized the college’s finances and overseen its enrollment growth, including online. And an impressive 95 percent of its graduates last year either went on to the military or landed jobs in the fields in which they were training. As Kinkel noted, much of the credit for NCAT’s success goes to the commission and county, which took the initiative to build the world-class training center and pays its debt service. There are daunting challenges ahead tied to the economy, state and federal cuts, and competition posed by other schools. But Gov. Sam Brownback’s technical education initiative will be a “game changer,” Kinkel said.
With the GOP establishment pointing them toward the exit of the presidential nomination race, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are pointing to the Kansas Jayhawks. “I’m going to take Kansas as a model,” Gingrich said Sunday. He noted that in Saturday’s NCAA semifinal game against Ohio State, Bill Self’s Jayhawks “were down nine points at the half. That is the second-largest margin to come back from in the Final Four Series.” Asked on “Fox News Sunday” about talk of dropping out, Santorum said: “You should’ve told Kansas that last night when they were down almost 20 points in the first half. This race isn’t even at halftime yet. We haven’t even selected half the delegates yet. Gov. Romney is not halfway to the magic number and, you know, we look at the calendar ahead, and we feel very, very good about where we are going.” But front-runner Mitt Romney could get a boost Tuesday, with a total 95 delegates up for grabs in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
