Category: News
Wyandotte County officials won’t discuss 2020 pay increases
While many residents were struggling to pay bills last year, some of the highest-paid employees of the Unified Government of…
Pelosi’s HR 1 would force nonprofits to disclose donor lists
Nancy Pelosi’s HR 1 legislation doesn’t just impose changes on states that would make voter fraud easier to pull off. …
Alarming trends suggest undereducated future Kansas workforce
Recent high school graduates set aside plans to attend technical school, community college, and university last year, slowing entry to…
Eye-opening 2020 pay increases for some JoCo employees
The COVID pandemic was tough on everyone, but the 2020 pay increases for some Johnson County government workers were pretty…
AG Schmidt joins lawsuit to block ‘Mini-Green New Deal’
Kansas has joined a federal lawsuit seeking to block the implementation of a series of executive orders by the Biden…
H.R. 1: ‘For the People’ Act is really for the politicians
Billed as the “For the People” act, recently passed H.R. 1 claims to protect election integrity and expand access to…
Kelly admin calls withholding vaccines ‘enforcement mechanism’
Yesterday, we learned that KDHE ordered Riley County to stop vaccinating people until other counties caught up, and threatened to…
KDHE threatened to withhold vaccines from Riley County
Riley County officials confirm that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) threatened to withhold promised vaccine shipments if…
Kelly nominee may legislate from the bench to raise property tax
Johnson County Commission Chairman Ed Eilert and Rep. Stephanie Clayton, an Overland Park Democrat, have called on Kansas Governor Laura…
KDHE orders Riley County to halt COVID vaccine distribution
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has ordered Riley County health officials to cease COVID vaccine distribution. The problem?…
Kansas ranks near the bottom of real personal income growth
A report last week from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows Kansas ranks near the bottom of states in real…
Legislation would prohibit vaccine mandates as employment condition
Lawmakers debated a bill to prevent employers from implementing vaccine mandates and firing individuals due to their vaccination status. Two…
WSJ: $1.9 trillion COVID bill pays Kansans more to stay home
The $1.9 trillion “Covid-relief package” currently wending its way through Congress, could see Kansans paid considerably more to stay home…
Kansas lawmakers consider mandate for in-person learning option
Eighth-grader Ian Reimer has attended school in person for three days since March 12, 2020. The Gardner-Edgerton student started school…
Johnson Co. helps school districts mislead on quarantine letters
When a Johnson county student is thought to be exposed to someone with COVID, parents get quarantine letters from the…
Unions oppose First Amendment rights for teachers, others
Marni Mills is a 20-year member of the Kansas National Education Association in Olathe. When she wanted to cease paying…
Lawmakers debate mandating personal finance class to graduate
Kansas students can graduate from high school without taking any classes on personal finance. A bill before the Kansas Legislature…
SB 174 would eliminate ‘pay to work fee’ for APRNs
Proponents say a proposal before the Kansas Legislature regarding Advance Practice Registers Nurses (APRNs) will lower medical costs and improve…
Hineman, Goossen make false claims about 2012 Kansas tax plan
People across the nation who are opposed to letting citizens keep more of their hard-earned money have repeatedly pointed to…
Are COVID vaccine doses collecting dust in Kansas? Kelly won’t say
There may be extra COVID vaccine doses in Kansas pharmacies, but Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration won’t respond to emails or…
CDC, KS school board issue stringent school opening guidance
The Center for Disease Control and the Kansas State Department of Education issued new, stringent school opening guidance week, but…
How some government officials circumvent Open Records requests
The Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) declares, “It is the public policy of Kansas that public records shall be open…
Social media censorship legislation proposed in Kansas
A social media censorship bill, targeting companies like Facebook and Twitter that have been censoring and de-platforming conservative viewpoints, is…
KS COVID vaccinations continue to lag most of the nation
Kansas administered only 67% of the COVID vaccine doses it has received so far and Gov. Kelly blames the state’s…