Category: Featured
Former budget director retires; Media glosses over his failed record
Is media allowing Interim Secretary of Administration Duane Goossen to retire with limited fanfare to avoid exposing the damage done…
Reduced hours at Spirit highlights need for diversification
Many employees at Spirit AeroSystems are being reduced to a 32-hour work week in order to cope with the fallout…
Transparency on teacher success rates could produce more effective teachers
Not all teaching programs are created equal and the lack of transparency on the preparedness of future teachers attending university…
Media selective reporting could set up your next tax increase
When was the last time you saw a Kansas newspaper or TV station publish bad news about economic conditions in…
Lax enforcement aids in escalation of protests at Capitol building, Senator says
Acts of civil disobedience in the Kansas Capitol escalated throughout the session and according to one state Senator, Capitol Police…
Wichita city council approves vague land bank, rezoning plan
Despite multiple objections from residents and a number of unanswered questions, Wichita city council unanimously voted today to adopt an…
Government fees create major barrier for industrial hemp farmers
Legislators worked hard to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp but license fees imposed by the Kansas Department of Agriculture…
Blue Valley teachers vote to abandon the KNEA
Teachers in the Blue Valley school district left the Kansas National Educators Association (KNEA) last May and they overwhelmingly rejected KNEA…
Population declining in many Kansas cities, media turns a blind eye
Much of rural Kansas has been losing population for many years and now many cities are beginning to lose people.…
Churn and Burn: Incentives and the Wichita Economy
At a recent Wichita City Council meeting members grappled with what to with the WaterWalk development. The old Gander Mountain…
Legislators to attempt override of Kelly vetoes on final day
Kansas Majority Leader Dan Hawkins has spoken to every single Republican House member leading up to the legislature’s final day…
SFFF diverts $8.4 million from classrooms to pay lawyers
Kansas public school districts have paid more than $8.4 million in membership fees to Schools for Fair Funding (SFFF), an…
Kansas personal income growth among lowest in nation
Kansas personal income grew just 3.2% in 2018 while the nation as a whole grew 4.5% according to estimates from…
Shawnee voters reject community center tax increase
Shawnee voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to raise property taxes to fund a $38 million community center. The mail-in election…
Wichita City Council approves King of Freight WaterWalk Lease
The Wichita City Council approved a ground lease agreement with King of Freight on the WaterWalk development on Tuesday in…
Kansas legislators, governors ignore state law so they can spend more
Remember the promises about fiscal responsibility and upholding the rule of law from people running for state office over the…
City of Wichita ignores transparency request on baseball stadium
More than two month after writing a letter to Wichita officials asking for information about the city’s $75 million plan…
Kelly vetoes tax bill, reporters act like her deputies
Instead of asking hard questions about obviously misleading statements in Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of HB 2033, reporters across Kansas…
Advocates admit Medicaid expansion won’t save rural hospitals
Pressed to consider the facts with emotion removed, even some strong advocates admit Medicaid expansion won’t save rural hospitals. And…
Media bias – shaping news to fit an agenda
Media bias takes many forms, as demonstrated in a recent story that ran in the Kansas City Star and Wichita…
School district lawyers say $1 billion isn’t enough to resolve Gannon suit
Legislators just increased school funding another $90 million per year, bringing the total being phased in through the 2023 school…
Kansas budget to jump 9 percent next year
Legislators just increased the Kansas budget by almost 9 percent next year but you wouldn’t know it from reading mainstream…
Rationale of government incentives
Incentives, also known as taxpayer-funded subsidies, are the predominant methods used by government and elected officials to encourage economic development. …
KC Star political agenda drives coverage of Senator Jim Denning
The Kansas City Star’s recent coverage of State Senator Jim Denning seems driven less by facts than a dual political…