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Live dining chat at 1:30 p.m. today

Denise Neil, Dining with Denise Neil Today at 10:21 a.m.

Having trouble deciding where to eat for Valentine’s Day? Want to hear me gush about AVI’s polenta? Lonely and bored at 1:30 p.m. on a Thursday? The live dining chat is for you. Join me at 1:30 p.m. today, and tell your friends.

More disease in Kansas, Missouri deer

Michael Pearce, Michael Pearce's Kansas Outdoors Today at 7:33 a.m.

Chronic wasting disease continues a slow but steady advance across the midwest. Three cases have been found from deer killed during the 2011-12 Kansas deer seasons, with about 35-percent of about 2,400 samples tested.

Pompeo takes on Kochs' critics

Rhonda Holman, WE Blog Today at 6:33 a.m.

Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, authored a Politico commentary calling on the Obama administration and congressional Democrats to stop harassing the Kochs. It was his comeback to the unsuccessful efforts of Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bobby Rush, D-Ill., to demand that "a representative of Koch Industries" testify at a hearing on the Keystone XL pipeline, a project Koch has said it has no stake in. "Charles Koch and David Koch, co-owners of Koch Industries, are U.S. citizens, taxpayers, entrepreneurs and employers. Their businesses employ nearly 50,000 people in the U.S. alone," Pompeo wrote, noting its 2,600 Kansas employees. "The company has never been bailed out by the U.S. taxpayers. Given that many Americans are now desperate for jobs, we should be begging entrepreneurs to look for new opportunities – not attacking them because their companies might make a profit." Pompeo also noted that the first sentence of Obama's first re-election ad "attacks" the Kochs. "That the Obama administration and its allies use private citizens as symbols to be attacked and vilified is unfair and deeply threatening to our civic life and the rule of law," Pompeo wrote.

Wall Street Journal likes Brownback's tax plan

Rhonda Holman, WE Blog Today at 6:29 a.m.

Gov. Sam Brownback was among the Republican governors praised for targeting income taxes in a Wall Street Journal editorial headlined "The Heartland Tax Rebellion." The editorial quoted Brownback as saying, "Our goal is for our economy to look more like Texas and a lot less like California," and concluded that was the right goal: "The tax competition in America's heartland is an encouraging sign that at least some U.S. politicians understand that they can't take prosperity for granted. It must be nurtured with good policy, as they compete for jobs and investment with other states and the rest of the world."

Dillmore wanted governor's budget to pay for Laffer

Phillip Brownlee, WE Blog Today at 6:29 a.m.

State Rep. Nile Dillmore, D-Wichita, tried to deduct $75,000 from Gov. Sam Brownback's office budget – the amount the state paid economist Arthur Laffer (in photo) to consult on Brownback's tax-reform plan. The House Government Budget Committee approved the move Monday. But after Brownback staff complained, the committee later revoted and returned the funding. On Wednesday, Dillmore tried unsuccessfully to deduct Laffer's fee from the budget of the Kansas Department of Revenue. Dillmore thinks there was no need to hire an out-of-state consultant. When Laffer appeared before a legislative committee last month, he spent much of the time promoting his upcoming book. It would have been a lot cheaper to buy the book instead of pay for Laffer's trip, Dillmore said.

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