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Tax Increase Coming to KS Individuals, Businesses If Legislature Does Nothing
Kansans will get a tax increase unless the Kansas House and Senate adopt legislation that mirrors federal tax reforms before…
Nearly 300 Kansans In Higher Ed Make 200K, More Than 100 At KU
According to figures released by the Kansas Policy Institute for the 2017-18 academic year, the State of Kansas pays 292…
Two KU B-Ballers Reportedly Got Big $$$$ In Adidas Scandal
Thomas Gassnola, an AAU basketball director accused of working with Adidas to bribe guardians or family members of basketball players…
KS House Spikes Budget Provision for Automatic Cuts If Court Demands More School Money
A budget provision to automatically reduce next year’s budget if the Kansas Supreme Court demands lawmakers add more money to schools…
Why Is KU Promoting Segregated Housing For Its LGBTQ Students?
At the University of Kansas, they call it “gender inclusive housing” but its effect is to shunt KU’s “transgender, non-binary…
Religious Freedom Opponents Fly in to Oppose Adoption Protection Act
The Human Rights Campaign flew its top leader to Kansas to advocate against an adoption bill that doesn’t change the…
Merriam Dem: Lawmakers Are Constitutionally Obligated to Fund Schools, Not Roads
Schools need to be priority one, Rep. Jarrod Ousley, a Merriam Democrat, told a meeting of several Johnson County lawmakers…
Another Trump-Inspired Hate Crime That Wasn’t, St. Louis Cemetery Vandalism
In the months following the inauguration of Donald Trump, the media struggled to pin a series of bomb threats against…
Catholic Lobbyist: Electing Republicans Doesn’t Guarantee Religious Liberty
Kansas is a case study in the idea that nothing will be fixed if Christians continue voting for Republicans, writes Michael…
Compressed Veto Session Means Lawmakers Can’t Override Colyer Veto
Kansas lawmakers ceded some of their authority when they scheduled Sine Die — of final adjournment. As they adopted a…
Clownish St. Louis Prosecutors Turn Greitens Case Into Farce
The remarkably patient defense attorneys for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens cannot be sure from day to day what new bit…
AFP-KS Plans Advocacy Day during ‘Sausage-Making’ Time
When lawmakers return to Topeka to wrap up the 2018 legislative session, they’ll be met by advocates for limited government and…
Political Report Theorizes Risks for 2 KS Congressional Incumbents
The Cook Political Report, a newsletter than analyzes elections and campaigns, theorizes that Congressmen Kevin Yoder and Ron Estes may…
Can Lincoln University’s All-White Golf Team Win The PGA Minority Championship?
On May 11, the male golf team of Lincoln University, an historically black college in Jefferson City, will compete in…
Who Wrote The Threatening Letters To Gay Kansas School Teacher?
The Kansas City Star headline sums up the nearly universal media angle on this unfolding story: “‘Queers will burn’: Gay…
How Are Those Gun-Free School Zones Working Out? Not Well, Kobach Tells 2A Supporters
As Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach watched 16-year-old gun control advocates rally following a school shooting in Parkland, Florida,…
Judge in Greitens Case Slams State For “Sanctionable Discovery Violations”
Having reminded the prosecutors in the Greitens case that “these rules are not mere rules of etiquette,” Circuit Judge Rex…
With Sheriff Scandal, If Jackson County Is “Garden of Eden” It’s After The Fall
The anthemic song, “I Believe,” in the Broadway megahit Book of Mormon has this one eye-popping lyric, “I believe that…
Americans Will Spend More on Taxes than Groceries, Food, Housing Combined in 2018
As Americans scramble to meet the national deadline to pay their taxes this year, they’ll need to work through April…
Would Online Sales Tax Collections Be a Savior of Kansas’ Budget?
Lawmakers are banking on the U.S. Supreme Court overturning a 1992 decision, known as Quill, that limits the ability of…
Greitens’ Prosecutors Admit “Egregious Mistakes,” Face Dismissal of Case
Two separate Associated Press reports on the criminal investigation into Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens use the word “egregious,” each in…
Breaking: Greitens’ Prosecutors Produce Missing Video Hours After Release of House Report
On Thursday in open court, James Martin, a defense attorney for Gov. Eric Greitens, spoke to the issue of a…
Sen. Booker Slams Pompeo For Having Same Gay Marriage Stance As Obama
Said then Congressman Mike Pompeo of the Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage, “I am deeply saddened by the…
Hickman-Mills Teacher Shows 5th Graders Pix of Naked Women, District Not Sure Why
Dominique Jones, the mother of a Hickman-Mills 5th Grader, had a hard time believing her daughter when she she said…