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Kansas Committee Has Voted to Lower Taxes on Groceries in 2020

While writing for 50 States of Blue, I posted a piece about the Kansas sales tax on groceries. Here is an update on that piece via a recent press release: Senate Bill 444 passed unanimously out of the Kansas Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee last night. The bill would lower the state’s 6.5% sales tax rate …

Book Excerpt: From Little Houses to Little Women by Nancy McCabe

      Creative Non-Ficion / Memoir / Travel Date Published: Paperback out this March / eBook November 2014 Publisher: University of Missouri Press     Nancy McCabe, who grew up in Kansas just a few hours from the Ingalls family’s home in Little House on the Prairie, always felt a deep connection with Laura …

Book Tour: Love of Finished Years (Book Unleashed Tours)

Was America every really the land of opportunity?  This is a question Elsa asked herself upon immigrating to the United States from Germany. In this tale of historical fiction, readers are transported to early twentieth century New York. Author Gregory Erich Phillips does a masterful job of weaving his tale, crafting a world where the …

Book Blitz: The Spitting Post by Jason R. Barden

THE SPITTING POST Jason R. Barden Genre: Horror, Dark Fantasy Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Publication Date: December 8, 2017 Vincent must find the Spitting Post, but only the purple swan knows the way. Vincent Carpenters life is a wreck. He has given up his dreams. He has lost his job after an economic disaster. …