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Monday at Plaza Library: “Russell Kirk, Charity, and the Conservative Imagination”
The Kansas City Public Library is one of the rare public institutions in America–and perhaps the only one in the…
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Supreme Court Rejects School Funding Model It Once Used
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional lawmakers’ most recent attempt at a school financing formula, in part, because the formula…
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Republican Legislative Leaders Call Court Disrespectful of Legislative Process
Kansas Senate leadership is drawing a line in the sand. Sen. President Susan Wagle, Vice President Jeff Longbine and Majority…
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KS Supreme Court Rules New School Funding Inadequate, Inequitable
Lawmakers have until April 30 to craft a new school financing formula. The Kansas Supreme Court ruled legislators’ latest school…
Former Editorialist, State Legislator Rips Hutch News Ownership
Editorial-writer-turned-state-legislator Jason Probst penned an early obituary for the Hutchinson News, his employer for 15 years before he was selected…
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Woman Warned Away from Westport Violence Dies in Lawrence Shoot-Out
“I encouraged them to go to Lawrence instead of Westport because Westport has been so violent and dangerous,” Gretchen Brown…
MO Political Operative in Bannon Crosshairs
Steve Bannon, a former advisor to President Trump, is trying to blackball Missouri political operative Jeff Roe, according to CNN.…
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Facebook Suspends MO Senate Candidate over Gun Raffle Video
Austin Petersen is suspended from Facebook for 30 days over the content of a Facebook Live video. Petersen is an Independence…
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SFFF Lawyers Clean Up with $7M from Schools
School districts funneled more than $7 million in taxpayer funding to attorneys who sued the state for additional taxpayer money.…
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Kansas Democratic Party Showdown Possible at DemoFest
The Kansas Democratic Party will gather this weekend in Wichita for the organization’s annual DemoFest. There, they’ll host special guest, Democratic…
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MO Centenarians To See First Income Tax Decrease of Their Lifetimes
How long does it take for an income tax, once introduced, to decrease? Longer than U.S. life expectancy in Missouri.…
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Southeast KC Highways “Safe,” 10-Plus Shootings in Last Month Are “Random”
In one of the least reassuring explanations in recent memory, the Kansas City Police Department insists “there is no highway…
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Prison Fix: Could State Reduce Recidivism, Retain Guards through KCI?
A partial solution to Kansas’ budget challenges and problems in the state’s prison facilities may be overlooked from the Alvarez & Marsal…
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MU Pays Up to $475,000, $625 an hour to Chicago Firm for PR Crisis Consulting
In the wake of its fall 2015 campus meltdown, the University of Missouri reached out to a Chicago public relations…
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Top Google News Story: Murderer Sues Kansas Prisons for Imposing Christianity
Each day Google sorts through the various news stories about Kansas, and on Friday chose as top story one based…
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Eagle Politicizes Shooting at Revenue Department
Within days of a Wichita shooting at a Kansas Department of Revenue office, the Wichita Eagle dragged out Democratic officials…
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No Gun Incidents at K-State Since Campus Carry, Collegian Reports
The Kansas State Collegian reports zero gun incidents at the K-State since a law allowing individuals to carry concealed weapons…
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Breaking: Kansas Suspends License of OP Planned Parenthood Abortionist
As reported by Operation Rescue, the Kansas Board of Healing Arts suspended the osteopathic medicine license of abortionist Dr. Allen…
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Blue Valley District So Poor It Spent $130K in Legal Fees to Deny a Student Books
The Blue Valley School District is so poor officials spent $130,000 in legal fees trying to get out of an…
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Black Millennial Tells Star: “All you see in KC are Caucasians.”
Apparently, social life in Kansas City among the millennial set is not nearly as harmoniously diverse as light beer commercials…
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Town Hall Meeting about Tyson Chicken Set for Tonight
Area residents will have an opportunity to voice some of their concerns about a proposal to build a Tyson Foods chicken manufacturing…
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KC Star Threatened With Boycott Over Unhinged Anti-Anthem Editorial
The readers of Tony’s Kansas City, an influential libertarian blog, are generally slow to anger and even slower to threaten…
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Antifa Comes Armed to Kansas City Rally–Sort Of
Aware finally that the other guys have all the guns, the revolutionary media darlings known as “Antifa”–shorthand for antifascist–came armed…
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KC Librarian Cleared in Bizarre Free Speech Case
. Unlike America’s universities, the Kansas City Public Library is genuinely committed to free speech from all perspectives. Under the…