Author: Patrick Richardson
State senator pushes for oversight of rural health care funds in potential special session
Senate Majority Leader Chase Blasi wants a potential special session to include discussion on how to handle federal rural health…
Kansas ACT scores, college-readiness hit new lows
ACT scores for 2025 were released this week, showing yet another decline and hitting a new all-time low. The composite…
LPA finds large inconsistencies in HPIP tax-credit program
A recent report by the Kansas Division of Legislative Post Audit found it was impossible to determine how many tax…
Kansas Commerce Dept: approve projects, then learn if they’re viable
When the Colby City Council met to discuss a new STAR bond project on Oct. 7, 2025, they had to…
Montgomery County Commission appears to retaliate against clerk over RNR hearing fiasco
Montgomery County Commissioners seem to be taking retaliatory action against Montgomery County Clerk Ami Standridge in the county’s revised budget,…
Des Moines school superintendent was an illegal alien registered to vote as Democrat in Maryland
Contrary to the law — and claims that non-citizens and illegal immigrants cannot vote — it appears the former Des…
KSDE, State Board of Education ignore state literacy law
You might think that the State Board of Education would be laser-focused on addressing the serious literacy problem in Kansas.…
Kansas Supreme Court upholds 2021 religious exemption law
The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld a 2021 law shielding workers who refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine over religious…
Comanche County school board president declines to answer questions about shooting
COLDWATER, Kansas — The Comanche County school board president whose car was recently shot up is declining to answer questions…
Audit finds disturbing lack of security controls on school district accounting systems
A new report from the Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit has found a troubling lack of security control over…
Feds follow through on threat to withhold SNAP funds
The United States Department of Agriculture’s Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services division has apparently followed through on a threat to…
‘Assassination Culture’ report shows troubling trend on the left
In the wake of the September 10, 2025, political assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, an April study by Rutgers…
Park City STAR Bond project hits snag
In April of 2025, the Wichita Eagle reported the roughly $500 million “Champtown” development in Park City was “full speed…
Overland Park seems set to defy feds over DEI, ICE requirements in grant
The City of Overland Park, Kansas, seems set to defy the federal government over immigration and DEI policies after receiving…
Kobach sues to force Kelly, DCF, to turn over SNAP data
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is suing Kansas Governor Laura Kelly and Department of Children and Families Secretary Laura Howard…
‘Grain Belt Express’ moves forward despite federal loan cancellation
The cancellation of a $4.9 billion federal loan for the so-called “Grain Belt Express” does not appear to have halted…
Kansas could lose $10.4 million in SNAP funding per quarter if it fails to turn over enrollment data to feds
The federal government has formally warned the State of Kansas that continuing to refuse to comply with data requests will result…
State overpaid Medicaid reimbursements to school districts by $11 million since 2016
Explaining it away as a “perfect storm” of “staff turnovers,” Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Janet Stanek on…
Electric deregulation like at least 18 states have done, would reduce residential and commercial rates
Eighteen states, mostly in the Northeast, have deregulated their electric grid to some degree — meaning consumers can choose where…
Executive order prohibiting debanking signed by President Trump
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for all Americans,” which aims to eliminate so-called…
Attorney General Kobach says Kelly has no authority to join lawsuit against President Trump
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has moved to block Kansas Governor Laura Kelly from joining a lawsuit against the Trump…
Johnson County, Overland Park plan big tax increases while sitting on millions in reserves
Despite hundreds of millions of dollars in reserve, Johnson County Commissioners are planning to raise property taxes by 6.5% next…
Citizen group makes recommendations to City of Wichita on spending
A recent review of the City of Wichita’s budget by the Wichita Organization for Government Efficiency Exchange (The Exchange) found…
Search for answers in 25-year-old cold case in woman’s disappearance stymied by Kansas law
Roughly 25 years ago, Jennifer Lancaster and her two young daughters left her mother’s house in Topeka, Kansas. They were…