Category: News
Kansas Ranks Below 47 Other States in Public Employees per Capita
Kansas may not be rich in beachfront property or skyscrapers, but the Sunflower State has more government employees per 10,000…
Eagle, Star Hemorrhaging Cash, Staff
McClatchy, the newspaper chain that owns the Kansas City Star and the Wichita Eagle, continues to hemorrhage value, according to…
Gay Fireman Cleared On All Counts In Hooters Spitting Case
It is a testament to how far we have come as a society that an incident in which a gay…
Are Taxpayers Getting a Bum Deal from Prairiefire Tax Incentives?
Cracks are beginning to show in Overland Park’s investment in the Prairiefire. The city dropped $100 million in tax incentives…
Greitens Accuser, A Planned Parenthood “Activist” And Possible Pawn Of House Dems
The already murky “invasion of privacy” case against Gov. Eric Greitens has gotten murkier with the revelation in Breitbart.com that…
Kansas City Butt of Twitter Prank Gone Viral
Sorry, kids, but it’s a prank. Kansas City has never produced or posted signs that read, “Did you know Kansas…
Illegal Alien Pleads Guilty To Killing St. Louis Man In Dispute Over Candy Bar
On Monday, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Taleb Jawher “pleaded guilty to being an illegal alien in possession of a…
Kansas GDP Falls, But Lawyers Want $1.5 Billion “More” For Schools
Forget the GDP–the half billion or so of newly committed money is apparently not money enough for the lawyers representing…
UK Publication: Greitens Prosecutor “Must Be Investigated”
The headline of a column in the Sunday British Observer had to have raised eyebrows from St. Louis to Jefferson…
FL Reaps Better Educational Achievement than KS for Less Money
Florida spends significantly less per pupil on education, but that didn’t stop its students from outperforming Kansas students on the…
Lawmakers Invoke Nazis, Slavery, Homosexual Agenda as Adoption Protection Act Passes
After a lengthy debate, lawmakers approved the Adoption Protection Act, a proposal that will allow faith-based agencies to continue operating…
Was A Penn Valley Student Really Pushed Down The Stairs On “Punish A Muslim Day”?
At the Sentinel, our guess is that no one at the Kansas City Star ever heard of “Punish a Muslim…
Still Another North KC School District Teacher Faces Sex Charges
Although the media refuse to take notice of the trend, six employees of the North Kansas School district have been…
Oops! Cap-J Publishes False List of Businesses Opposed to Adoption Legislation
A full-page ad in the Topeka Capital-Journal demanding lawmakers oppose the Adoption Protection Act used the names of businesses listed…
Star Headline on IHOP N-Word Slur Only Tells Half The Story, Less Actually
“Teen ‘distraught and upset’ after KC-area IHOP server prints N-word on her receipt,” shouts the headline of this hot-breaking story…
Unreported: “KCPD Pigs” Arrest 5 “Comrades” At Marxist May Day March
One would think that if the Kansas City Police were required to arrest five right wing protestors at a public…
Economist: “Kansas Has Fallen Back To Where It Was Before Tax Reform”
According to Jonathan Williams, chief economist with the American Legislative Exchange Council, “Kansas has fallen back to where it was…
Scout Program Capitulates; Drops ‘Boy’ from Name
The Boy Scouts are no more. According to USA Today, the revered program announced it would be dropping “boy” from…
Only One-Third of Public School Eighth Graders Proficient in Math
Two-thirds, or 67 percent, of American public school eighth graders aren’t proficient in math, according to the 2017 National Assessment…
Twitter Explodes Over News That Newspaper Publisher Paid 50K To Expose Greitens
Missouri Times publisher Scott Faughn was working on a book about the 2016 Missouri Governors’ race–yawn!–and thought what better way…
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…