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School districts lose 12,000 students but add 46 managers
(Editor’s note – this article has been updated with a revised calculation of virtual enrollment; the original article showed a…
COVID vaccines should go to elderly before prisoners
Governor Laura Kelly’s intention to give the COVID vaccines to prisoners ahead of the elderly and others among the most…
Wichita gym owner’s COVID lawsuit on hold, pending legislative solution
A lawsuit by a Wichita gym owner asking for payment from the State of Kansas for his lost revenue because…
Kansas vaccine distribution progress is the lowest in nation
Kansas ranks dead last among states and U.S. provinces in COVID vaccine distribution, according to a running tally collected by…
Kelly administration contradicts media reports of post-Thanksgiving surge
Even though there wasn’t a Thanksgiving surge, Dr. Lee Norman, Kansas Secretary of Health and Environment, warned Kansans to avoid…
Kelly falsely credits mask mandate for getting COVID under control
Kansans received good news on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, as Kansas Governor Laura Kelly announced the spread of COVID-19 is…
Media misleads Kansans again about COVID deaths
The screaming headline in today’s Wichita Eagle inaccurately said “Kansas had worst county in US for COVID deaths per capita…
Officials adopt population priorities for the COVID vaccination
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended on Sunday that people 75 and older and frontline workers should…
More false accusations from Kansas Reflector and ESU prof
An opinion piece in the left-leaning Kansas Reflector criticizing the Sentinel and Kansas Policy Institute for our work to inform…
Outsourcing could make more money available for instruction in SMSD
The Shawnee Mission School District will ask voters to approve a property tax increase next January in order to hire…
Controversial Commerce Secretary promoted to lieutenant governor
Gov. Laura Kelly tapped Commerce Secretary David Toland to serve as her lieutenant governor on Monday. Toland replaces Lt. Gov.…
Kansas Attorney General: legislators should meet in-person
As legislators prepare to return to Topeka for the 2021 session and safely deal with COVID-19, an opinion from Kansas…
Gym owner sues state, alleging shutdown commandeered his business
A Wichita gym owner is suing the State of Kansas over COVID lockdowns, claiming the shutdown earlier this year constituted…
ED visits for COVID, flu symptoms dropping below 2019
Data tracked by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment show that ED visits (emergency department) for COVID-like and influenza-like…
In pandemic’s 9th month, Gov. Kelly turns focus to nursing homes
Nine months after the start of the pandemic, Gov. Laura Kelly issued an executive order requiring testing protocols in Kansas…
Grant County Health Department issuing 24-day quarantines
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is relaxing quarantine requirements under certain circumstances from 10 and 14 days…
Doctors say health officials ignore early COVID treatments
There are four pillars of combatting a pandemic but state and federal officials are ignoring an important one — early…
Cycle threshold data required in Florida, Lenexa lab won’t release in KS
The state of Florida now requires labs to provide cycle threshold data on COVID tests, but one of the laboratories…
Preliminary CDC data shows likely increase in total deaths for 2020
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment claims to not know how many people have died so far this year,…
JoCo in, Wyandotte out of shortened CDC quarantine guidelines
The Centers for Disease Control issued new quarantine guidelines allowing shorter quarantine periods following close contact with a COVID-positive individual.…
KSHSAA board members who voted for, against spectators disclosed
Many members of the Kansas State High School Athletics Association Board of Directors (KSHSAA) who voted against having spectators for…
KPI: $264 million Shawnee Mission bond issue is built on false premise
Shawnee Mission Superintendent Mike Fulton says shifting funding from capital outlay to operating expense and passing a bond issue is…
KDHE claims not to know total number of Kansas deaths in 2020
In response to our Kansas Open Records Act, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment says it doesn’t know the…
Audit: $20 million Angel Investor program rife with problems
A damning report from the Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit says the Angel Investor tax credit program designed to…