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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…
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Study says privatizing Kansas Turnpike could generate $1 billion
With the state facing an approximately $1.5 billion budget deficit next year, legislators are looking at unpalatable options to fill…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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KPI: Johnson County should fix flawed COVID policy metrics
The COVID policy metrics being used to make public health decisions and to decide when — or if — to…
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JoCo commission approves property tax hike despite opposition
(Update – the original version of this story referenced a 5.3% property tax increase for 2021; a tiny quarter-mill reduction…
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Emporia drops COVID shutdown prosecution against restaurant owner
In a victory for common sense, the City of Emporia dropped their prosecution of a local restaurant owner after he…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Public outcry over Johnson County’s 5% property tax increase
Residents gave Johnson County commissioners an earful at the August 12 public hearing on the county’s 2021 budget proposal, which…
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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…
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Justice Institute stops mandatory contact tracing in Riley County
A letter from the Kansas Justice Institute to the Riley County Board of Health brought a swift victory for liberty,…
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Gov. Kelly shuts down legislator’s COVID transparency inquiry
For the second time in less than a month, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly shut down a discussion and refused to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A guy named ‘Bill’ decides which Kansas businesses are essential
A spreadsheet obtained in an Open Records request details a pattern of arbitrary and questionable decision-making by a guy named…
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Kelly claims credit for foster care ideas after vetoing them
Not only is Kansas Governor Laura Kelly accepting credit for an idea in a bill she vetoed, but the Kansas…
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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…