About KPI
New Happenings
We have started research into billionaire oil magnates, Charles and David Koch’s, financial influence on Kansas state politics and legislation. Our new website has been updated and filled with steady content at www.kansasprogress.org KPI president and founder, David Burress, is working on a biographical case files series, based on a book he is writing tentatively-titled “Antiabortion as Violence”: The ... continue reading
Officers
Board of Directors
David Burress, President
Creed Shepard, Vice President
Theresa Bird, Secretary
Nate Carlson
Bill CampseyCouncil of Advisors
Reverend Emanuel Cleaver, II,
U.S. Congressman, Fifth District of MissouriWes Jackson, President, The Land Institute
Jim Lawing, Attorney and activist, Wichita
Ramon Powers, Former Director, Kansas State Historical Society
Anthony Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union (National)
- Talk on City Policies
I gave a brownbag talk on city policies for economic and community development for the Lawrence League of Women Voters on September 15. The slides are available here.
- Higher Taxes for Health Care? You Know You Agree (The Pitch Blog, 9/08)
In 2008 KPI (then known as Ad Astra Institute) conducted a poll of Kansans’ attitudes to the financing health care and the Kansas City area Pitch Weekly took interest
- Letter To The Editor (Lawrence Journal-World)
KPI’s David Burress with one of his best editorials, regarding a recent scandal involving a Lawrence developer