By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  October 23rd at 10:48 PM  | 

There should be an Intrade market related to JCCC’s constant legal battles. Well, Converge Magazine lost some credibility these past months.  In 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and again in 2011, Converge named Johnson County Community College a “top-rated community colleges for digital technology.” But how can this be, when JCCC leaders want $10,000 for 20 Emails, and when JCCC is claiming it needs to hire an outside data | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  March 23rd at 05:02 PM  | 

To The Johnson County Sun’s credit, one thing the left-wing paper always does is to offer an opportunity for all candidates for major races to write in their own words why they’re running for office.  The Sun asks a few questions, and candidates can write almost anything they want, under a certain number of words. The responses from candidates for Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees were | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  March 14th at 02:22 AM  | 

I’d like to highlight this column by the respected regional editorial news site Kaw and Border, ”Steve’s Rose Colored Glasses Regarding JCCC.” For a brief back-ground.  Steve Rose now writes a column for The Kansas City Star.  He used to own a paper that his father started, The Johnson County Sun, which is now in its waning days.  While Rose is liberal, it’s not his liberalism that’s troublesome, but | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  March 6th at 02:21 AM  | 

Click here to read this campaign Email in a Web-friendly format. Benjamin Hodge Kansas GOP Delegate, 2009-’10 Kansas Representative, 2007-’08 JCCC Trustee, 2005-’09 Web site: BenjaminHodge.com Phone:  (913) 259-4236 Email: contact@benjaminhodge.com Saturday, March 5, 2011 “They listened to JCCC President Terry Calaway tell them of impending staff layoffs, then voted to spend money that might have saved a few of those jobs.” – Johnson County Sun editorial Incredible: Even the liberal Johnson | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  February 18th at 09:18 PM  | 

This college’s repeat, illegal behavior is well known and well-proven in Kansas City.  Yet, leaders at Johnson County Community College continue to go out of their way to be all the more unethical.  Just after being scolded by a federal judge that they illegally expelled four nursing students, JCCC is now spending over $100,000 of the taxapayers’ money to focus on its “image” and “brand.” | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  February 8th at 01:47 AM  | 

My recent Email about the ongoing pattern of unaccountability at Johnson County Community College.  Click here for a Web-friendly version. (Note:  I’m running for one of three at-large seats available on April 5 for this college board. There are seven total seats.  I held the position from 2005-09 and narrowly lost re-election in 2009). Benjamin Hodge Kansas GOP Delegate, 2009-’10 Kansas Representative, 2007-’08 JCCC Trustee, 2005-’09 Web site: BenjaminHodge.com | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  January 24th at 09:20 AM  | 

(Click here for the PDF version of the following transcript) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF KANSAS DOYLE BYRNES, Plaintiff, vs. JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, DR. CLARISSA CRAIG, MS. JEANNE WALSH, MS. AMBER DELPHIA, DR. MARILYN RHINEHART and DR. DENNIS DAY, Defendants. District Court Case No. 10-2690 TRANSCRIPT OF RULING OF THE COURT On the 6th day of January, 2011, came on to be | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  January 7th at 10:40 PM  | 

At 50,000 thousands students every year (many non-degree-seeking), Johnson County Community College is the largest in Kansas and among the largest in the Midwest. They don’t care much for any law, state or federal.  Just since 2005, the college has been guilty of violating the state open meetings law, the state open records law, the federal First Amendment, there has been at least one likely | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  January 5th at 07:40 PM  | 

Johnson County Community College is nationally known as a corrupt institution run by dishonest leaders like President Terry Calaway, ex-bankers Lynn Mitchelson and Jon Stewart, and Gardner funeral home director Shirley Brown-VanArsdale.  They’ve broken laws left and right — the First Amendment, the Kansas Open Meetings Act, the Kansas Open Records Act, sexual molestation by former President Charles Carlsen, the likely illegal firing of at least | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  November 16th at 03:24 PM  | 

Click here to read part one and part two about Jason Osterhaus’ victory over establishment icon and liberal Republican Larry Winn the Third. For today’s article, I’ll copy below my mail newsletter today, in which I discuss the 4th District County Commission race.  In summary:  the number one reason that Jason Osterhaus won was because he out-worked his opponent.  Alongside this, Osterhaus communicated a clear, simple, economically | Read More »