Ad Astra Institute Recommended Links

All about Kansas

• Kansas Action for Children
  
  
• Kansas Rural Center -- This site is a must for all rural Kansans who desire much healthier and meaningful modes of agricultural living.
  
  
• Kansas Supreme Court
  
  
• Kansas League of Women Voters
  
  
• Kansas Department on Aging
  
  
• Kansas Health Care for All
  
  
• Tabor Truth --  Enacted in 1992, followed by 14 years of negative repercussions for Coloradans, TABOR-like proposals have been making their way in Kansas.  This is an excellent source for those in the fight against a quaint sounding policy that’s built on a flawed formula
  
  
• Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation
  
  
• Kansas Department of Agriculture
  
  
• Kansas Traditional Republican Majority -- Traditionally perceived as the party of fiscal responsibility and small government, the Republican Party has become perceived as a party taken over by “free” market ideologues and religious fundamentalist.  KTRM is involved in bringing it back into the mold of pragmatic governance
  
  
• Kansas Energy Council
  
  
• The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas does plant research with the goal of developing sustainable agriculture that relies on perennial plants, using less fossil fuel and preventing soil erosion.  Their Prairie Writers' Circle produces op-ed pieces on agriculture, food, energy and related topics.  The Institute holds an annual 3-day event--the Prairie Festival--open to the public.
  
  
• AFL–CIO (Wichita chapter)
  
  
• Kansas BioScience – Kansas is expecting to see some potentially good economic changes taking place. With plans from the State to invest heavily in the Bio-Sciences, a greater need for developing policies that will environmentally complement the economic expansion.  AAI intends to play an important role in this.
  

Other State-Level Policy Resources

• Citizens Policy Center  -- Like AAI, this Oklahoma based think tank is a policy anomaly
  
  
• The Breakthrough Institute -- another conduit for Progressive policy and action
  
  
• Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy
  
  
• The Bell Policy Center -- from our neighbors in Colorado
  
  
• Center for Policy Alternatives
  
  
• Big Sky Institute
  
  
• Center On Wisconsin Strategy -- one of the most impressive state level policy institutes
  
  
• Database for State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency
  
  
• Progressive States

Progressive Foundations and Miscellaneous Policy Synergies

• Economic and Analysis Research Network
  
  
• Economic Policy Institute
  
  
• Center on Budget Policy and Priorities -- this organization puts together top notch work for the State and Federal government
  
  
• Commonweal Institute
  
  
• ACLU -- AAI believes in core American values, as established by our Bill of Rights
  
  
• Citizens for Tax Justice -- A leading resource for many economists and policy makers
  
  
• Rockridge Institute -- perhaps the biggest boon for Progressives over the last few years has been the emphasis on “framing the language”.  Often misinterpreted as spinning, framing is much more about changing the misguided thinking about issues that Regressives have tried to impose. Framing also recognizes that people vote based on their values more than scientific data.  Rockridge is the place where it started
  
  
• Frameshop -- useful tools for civic engagement
  
  
• National Coalition for Health Care
  
  
• Alliance to Save Energy -- Our green future
  
  
• Center For Public Integrity   -- standards of journalism have declined over recent years.  News operations are continuing to shrink their budgets for serious investigative reporting.  This has made AAI’s role in Kansas that much more vital in disseminating information necessary to protect and enhance the “public interest”.  But sites like Public Integrity still do justice to the profession.