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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…
Voters to decide on Shawnee community center tax increase
Voters will soon be deciding whether property taxes should be increased to pay for a $38 million Shawnee community center.…
Arizona-like law could reduce occupational licensing hurdles in KS
Arizona became the first state in the nation to recognize occupational licenses from other states. But Arizona’s new license portability…
Foundation defends health award for Allen County
Allen County won a Culture of Health prize from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2017. Yet, the same week…
Kansas economy lagged the nation in 2018
Data released this morning by the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows the Kansas economy grew much slower than the national…
Kansas Justice Institute to educate, advocate for constitutional rights
A former Kansas woman’s fight over Arizona licensing regulations served as a catalyst for a pair of occupational licensing laws…
For-profit Iola Industries connected to KS Commerce Secretary is ‘delinquent’
For-profit Iola Industries, a company connected to Commerce Secretary David Toland, is a delinquent corporation according to the Secretary of…
Kansas economy stumbles following tax hikes
The Kansas economy was one of the slowest growing in the nation during the 3rd quarter of 2018 according data released…
90 Kansas counties lost population since 2010 Census
The 2018 population estimates just released by the U.S. Census shows Kansas grew by just 2 percent since the 2010…
KCUR report misleads on school funding
Public radio station KCUR published a story suggesting a Kansas school district can’t fund basic building maintenance, but they left…
Regulatory roadblocks to affordable housing
Kansas needs more than 50,000 affordable housing units to meet low income and affordable housing demands in the state according…
Kelly allows Farm Bureau health benefit bill to become law without her signature
A bill that will allow Kansas Farm Bureau to offer health care coverage that doesn’t comply with the Affordable Care…
Court rejects Kelly’s request to file school finance brief
The Kansas Supreme Court denied Gov. Laura Kelly’s request to file an amicus brief in the on-going school financing lawsuit…
Kansas ranked in bottom 5 for its state and local tax rates
Kansas ranks in the bottom five of states in tax liability according to a WalletHub study. “Kansas did pretty poorly,”…
Legislators to consider work around to Kelly’s veto of ‘windfall’ bill
State lawmakers may make another try at returning the so-called federal tax reform “windfall” to taxpayers, despite a recent veto…
New Study Suggests that Tax Increases and Worker’s Compensation Impact Kansas Economy
The annual Rich States, Poor States reports from the American Legislative Exchange Council came out this week. Kansas slipped in…
Kansas’s economic outlook falls to bottom half nationally, annual study suggests
Kansas, once ranked in the top 15 in the annual Rich States, Poor States study, dropped to 27th place this…
Bill would create transparency, accountability for state incentive programs
Kansas lawmakers are likely to adopt legislation that will provide a new level of accountability and transparency to some of…