July 16, 2024

Keeping Media and Government Accountable.

Category: Featured

Lawmaker: When Is the Day We Can Discuss Medicaid Expansion?

Democrats in the Kansas House attempted for the fourth time this year to attach a Medicaid expansion to other legislation…

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UMKC Blows Whistle on Fired Whistleblower

In her extraordinary memo, Interim UMKC Chancellor Barbara Bichelmeyer concedes that Dr. Richard Arend, recently a tenured faculty member at…

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Some Kansans To Receive Credits That Lower Utility Bills, Thanks to Federal Tax Reform

Some Kansans are about to realize credits that reduce their monthly utility bills. The Kansas Corporation Commission approved agreements with Atmos…

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Measure to Decriminalize CBD Oil Users Advances in Kansas House

An amendment to legalize medical marijuana failed in the Kansas House yesterday, but lawmakers forwarded for passage the underlying legislation…

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Parents Terrorized by Bill that Limits School Insurance Rates for Conceal and Carry

The Left and their media allies are misrepresenting an insurance bill scheduled for a hearing on Tuesday morning. Contrary to…

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What Media Aren’t Saying About Garden City Bomb Plot

“The plot to bomb an apartment complex housing Somali immigrants in western Kansas was just the beginning of a plan…

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Faith-Based Adoption Agencies Under Attack, Fight for Right to Serve

When Cara DeCoursey faced an unplanned pregnancy 28 years ago, the Catholic teen knew she was going to give her…

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Colyer Provides Outline for Acceptable School Funding Solution

Gov. Jeff Colyer hasn’t formally issued a statement on how he would like to see lawmakers deal with what could become a…

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Will K-State, UMSL Mobilize To Protest Male-On-Male Rape?

There have been various marches and meetings on area campuses this year protesting rape and lesser varieties of sexual offense.…

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Federalist: Greitens Prosecutor Could “End Up in Jail”

Writing for the Federalist, an influential online magazine, Dave Grossman makes a highly detailed case that Kim Gardner, the St.…

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Sour Political Wrangling Pickles Amendment to Lower Food Sales Tax Rate

A bill that would have lowered the sales tax on groceries is dead due to political wrangling, according to Rep.…

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Budding Bromance Turns Full Partnership as Kobach, Hartman Join Forces

A budding bromance on display during the Kansas GOP debate has turned into a political partnership. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach announced…

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Thank Goodness for Nebraska; KS Makes Top 10 for Highest Tax Burdens

First the bad news: Kansas’ state and local tax burden is one of the highest in the nation. According to…

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Education Study a ‘$200K Birdcage Liner’, Lawmaker Says

Lawmakers are balking at an education study that recommends spending up to an additional $1.77 billion on school funding. Lori…

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4X Property Tax Rates? 10% Sales Tax? KPI Does Math on School Study’s Proposed Spending Hikes

Nearly quadrupling property tax rates or the highest sales tax rates in the country are two possible ways lawmakers could…

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Alleged “Anti-Gay” Flap Shakes KC Catholic Diocese

One has to believe that pro-LGBT forces within the Catholic Church have little idea how vicious they sound when attacking…

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Study Recommendation: Enormous Piles of Fresh Cash for Public Schools

Lawmakers got a preview of an education finance study commissioned to assist them in drafting a new school funding mechanism.…

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Sticker Shock: JoCo Payroll Spikes Beyond Rate of Inflation

Johnson County government’s top paid employee makes nearly three times the median household income in the county and two-and-a-half times the…

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House Slams Brakes on Banking Bill as Medicaid Expansion Vehicle

Kansas House Minority Leader Jim Ward tried to slip amendments related to Medicaid into legislation dealing with banks yesterday. The…

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Why Did Tax Cuts Work In NC, IN, and TN But Not in Kansas?

The question that Kansas Policy Institute President Dave Trabert raises in his new book, “What Was Really the Matter with…

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Absentee, Party-Switcher Sen. Doll Escapes Consequences

Sen. John Doll announced he would be leaving the Kansas Republican Party on March 6, and then he promptly stopped showing…

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MU Removes Sanger Poster, Denies Removal Related to Racial Macro Aggression

The University of Missouri last week quietly removed from its library a poster honoring Margaret Sanger, the racist eugenicists credited…

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Denning: ‘We Did Our Work on Schools Last Year’

The Kansas Legislature will have a solution for school funding by April, Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning told the Sunflower…

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MU Election Fiasco So Creepily PC Even Star Calls It “Maoist”

For a Kansas City Star editor to call the subversion of a student election “Maoist” some students had to do…

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