Author: Dave Trabert
COVID Information Center: hospitalization, death rates falling
You wouldn’t know it from media’s and Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s hyper-focus on case increases, but the rates of COVID…
USD 233 Olathe: Big pay hikes for administrators, achievement down
USD 233 Olathe says average teacher salaries increased 4.7% in the 2019-20 school year to $59,391, but some district administrators received increases…
USD 231: Big pay hikes for administrators, achievement down
USD 231 Gardner-Edgerton says average teacher pay increased 3.3% in the 2019-20 school year, but some district administrators received increases…
KDHE hides low testing rate to push COVID positivity scare
First, there was mask-querade, when Governor Kelly’s administration hid and manipulated data to justify her mask mandate. Now, Kelly’s Health…
Wall Street Journal: Kansas Democrats’ COVID chart masks the truth
An opinion column in today’s Wall Street Journal by Allysia Finley, a member of their editorial board, says Kansas health…
AIER: States that stayed open during COVID fare better
A new analysis from the American Institute of Economic Research (AIER) shows the seven states that didn’t shut down during…
COVID Information Center on Kansas Policy Institute website
The Sentinel’s parent company, Kansas Policy Institute, announced the addition of a COVID Information Center to its website today. Communications…
Austin, Nolan appointed to Civil Rights Advisory Committee
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights announced the appointment of 12 people to the Kansas Civil Rights Advisory Committee, including…
JoCo COVID positivity rate includes some who tested negative
The COVID positivity rate, which Johnson County health officials say is too high for schools to safely open, includes people…
USD 229: free daycare for certified staff, parents on their own
Parents already upset with USD 229 Blue Valley’s decision to severely limit in-person instruction come fall are fuming over the…
Big pay hikes for Blue Valley administrators
Parents remain frustrated over the lack of dyslexia services in USD 229 Blue Valley, which has been partially blamed on…
Top-heavy Wichita school district shortchanges teachers and students
The Kansas education tradition – suing taxpayers on the pretense of not having enough money to educate students but not…
JoCo doc: COVID positivity rate artificially high, from skewed sample
Dr. Christine White, a pediatrician with Johnson County Pediatrics, says the COVID positivity rate is artificially high because “the data…
COVID cases jumped last week in counties with mask mandates
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment spent the last two weeks trying to convince Kansans that their manipulated data…
McClatchy cover-up of KDHE deception mask-querades as news story
The McClatchy-owned Kansas City Star and Wichita Eagle on Sunday published a lengthy endorsement of the Kelly administration’s use of…
More deception: KDHE hid data to justify mask mandate
Data obtained in an Open Records request from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment shows KDHE didn’t ‘just’ manipulate…
Encouraging trends continue in the latest Kansas COVID data
Encouraging trends that developed over the last few weeks on hospitalization and mortality continued with the last Kansas COVID data…
KDHE doctored a COVID case chart to justify mask mandates
KDHE Secretary Lee Norman shared a COVID case chart with media this week, which he said shows the counties that…
Kansas media, governor hide warning signs in July tax collections
July tax collections included a few warning signs for Kansas legislators and taxpayers, but you wouldn’t know it from Governor…
Top-heavy USD 500 Kansas City shortchanges teachers and students
USD 500 Kansas City gave Superintendent Charles Foust a 17% pay increase last year, while the approximate $92 million spent…
COVID hospitalization and death rates drop again, shutdown still threatened
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s administration is still threatening to close the economy when legally permitted on September 15 even though…
Misleading COVID stats in Wichita Eagle; trends down, not up
It may not have been intentional, but a July 29 story in the Wichita Eagle misrepresented the trend of COVID-related…
Wind industry spends $180,000 supporting candidates
A July 23 campaign finance report from American Energy Action Kansas shows the Kansas wind industry spent more than $180,000…
Are Future Vision mailers about the election for Senate President?
Kansans recently received mysterious mailers from a group called Future Vision attacking multiple Kansas Senate candidates, and this prompted questions…