Category: Featured
Congressional Candidate Fitzgerald Defends Western Civ, Tweaks CNN
A candidate can trash the western world all he or she desires without provoking CNN, but let a candidate defend…
KCMO City Hall Apparatchiks Say “Nyet” to Free Speech
In a stunningly detailed memorandum, the aspiring apparatchiks in Kansas City, Missouri, have drawn a social media-proof iron curtain around City…
Poll: Kansans Overwhelmingly Want the Court Out of Their Schools
Last week, the Kansas Supreme Court decided the additional $818 million Kansas lawmakers approved to fund public schools over the…
Will New KCK School Super Cut Through District’s “Uncharacteristic Stability”?
As KCUR’s Aviva Okeson-Haberman dutifully reported, parents and others supporters of the Kansas City, Kansas School District worry about what…
US Supremes Back Louisburg Woman in Religious Freedom Case
High marks to KCUR for reporting fairly on a story about Louisburg woman Mary Ann Sause whose day in court…
Ridicule Works: Missouri State Prof Cancels Her “Penis” Study
Missouri State University in Springfield found itself in the worldwide news this week for reasons that could not have pleased…
St. Louis Pol Calls Cops “KKK,” Demands More of Them
“Do we have the KKK infiltrating the police departments throughout America?” tweeted St. Louis-area Sen. Jamilah Nasheed in 2014, milking…
KNEA Bummed, US Supremes Rule Against Mandatory Dues
In a major blow to teachers unions in particular, the KNEA especially, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that charging government…
Breaking: Kansas Supreme Court Says We Want Mo’ Taxpayer Money
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Monday that the “State has not met the adequacy requirement in Article 6 of the…
Monetti Doubles Down in MO Senate Race, Has Sarah Palin Come to KC For Rally
Not one to be easily deterred by the odds, Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Tony Monetti is going all in by…
Sigh! Kander Lowers Sights From President to Mayor of KC
If there is a more nakedly ambitious Democrat in America than former Missouri secretary of state and would-be Kansas City mayor…
With Nearly 300 Kansas Educators Making $200K, Tuition Had To Go Up
Given the need to pay nearly 300 people more than $200,000 a year–and seven more than $500,000–the Kansas Board of…
“Mizzou” Has Become Shorthand For “Self-Destructive University”
Board members at the University of Missouri, affectionately known as “Mizzou,” should consider the following headline from The College Fix…
New Subsidized KC Grocery Shows Why “Food Deserts” Become Food Deserts
As the central initiative of her tenure in the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama preached about putting an end to…
Media: There’s Been a “Bump” Or Three On STAR Bond Highway
Controversial from the beginning, Kansas STAR Bonds have not done much to alleviate the critics’ concerns. As the Topeka Capital…
Shocker! Kansas Supreme Court Rules Against Fired Teachers
In May 2015 teachers Sallie Scribner and Mark McNemee received notification from the Flinthills school district that their contracts would not…
2 Wyandotte Officers Shot, Killed–5 Shot In Last 3 Years
On Friday morning, two Wyandotte County sheriff’s deputies were in the process of transporting murder suspect Antoine Fielder from the…
BBC Finds KC Abortion Survivor More Interesting Than Do Local Media
This week the “Victoria Derbyshire Programme” on the famed BBC network did a feature on Kansas City abortion survivor Melissa…
Death of Hacker Who Busted Bradley Manning Mystifies Wichita Coroner
In 2010, eight years before his mysterious death, notorious Wichita computer hacker Adrian Lamo made an online friend of Bradley…
The 10 Best Kansas Public High Schools in Greater KC
Over the past few weeks, the Sentinel has been documenting the performance of the public high schools on the Kansas…
Special Prosecutor Baker Declines To File Criminal Charges Against Greitens
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Bakers surely would have liked to take a whack at the Eric Greitens piñata, but…
4 Years Later, Accused Kansas Hate Slayer of 7 Still Has Not Gone to Trial
If an individual stands accused of purposefully killing seven people of a different race, is it safe to assume that…
Kansas City Fashion Designer Kate Spade Dies at 55, Suicide
In the spring of 2016, only the Second Coming of the Lord could have created more excitement at St. Teresa’s…
NY State Targeted KC-Based Lockton, NRA Targets NY State
For years, the Kansas City–based insurance broker, Lockton Cos., served as a broker for the “Carry Guard” insurance program offered by the…