July 30, 2024

Keeping Media and Government Accountable.

Category: News

Media Not Very Curious About Man Who Shot Woman On Plaza

A year ago, when a deranged drunken white man shot and killed an Indian man in Olathe thinking he was…

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KCPD Do What Florida Police Won’t: Investigate Reports of Potential Mass Shooters

The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Chief is willing to do some of the work federal officers and their local counterparts…

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KS Revenues Beat Expectations; State Budget Still Broken

The good news: Kansas revenues continued to beat projections in February. The bad news: Kansas budget is still out of…

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Kansas Union Prez Calls New Koch-Funded School “Living Laboratory of Elitism”

Leave it to United Teachers of Wichita president Steve Wentz to put a frog in the punch bowl of the…

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JoCo Boosts Big Box Appraisal 85% in Single Year, Retailers See Red

Dark Store Showdown: Executives Back Bus over JoCo Tax Assessments Johnson County is ground zero in “dark store theory” controversy, an ongoing legal…

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Dark Store Showdown: Executives Back Bus over JoCo Tax Assessments

Dark Store Showdown: Executives Back Bus over JoCo Tax Assessments Johnson County is ground zero in “dark store theory” controversy, an ongoing legal…

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Judge Thwarts Prosecutors, Sets May Trial Date for Greitens

For all the hell that Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has brought down on himself, it is hard not to see…

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Trump 2020 Campaign Manager, Kansas Native Brad Parscale, Already Getting Death Threats

In 2015, when Donald Trump was exploring the idea of running for president, he hired Topeka native Brad Parscale to…

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Hartman Offers Use of Namesake Arena for NRA Events

Wink Hartman is offering the National Rifle Association the use of Hartman Arena for future NRA events. He tweeted his…

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OP-Based Lockton Affinity Caves to Anti-Gun Activists, Abandons the NRA

There is no longer a reason, one suspects, for the planned fly-over protest at the Overland Park headquarters of insurance…

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Committee Forwards Convention of States Resolution to Kansas Senate

Tony Gillette, Shawnee, would like to see a bloodless revolution that returns the power of the federal government back to…

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For New Shawnee Mission Super, Salary Is Sweet, Perks Are Sweeter

Parents who once urged their children to go to med school or law school may be redirecting them towards the…

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Fitzgerald Urges His Opponents to Follow Hartman’s Example

State Sen. Steve Fitgerald is urging his Republican opponents to get out of the race for U.S. Congress. Fitzgerald is…

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Huh? Manhattan Named “Most Boring” City in Kansas, 2nd “Most Livable” City in America

It has been a roller coaster of a month for those Manhattan town boosters who take seriously national publications that…

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Shocker: Star Writes Honest Article On Syed Jamal’s Indifference to the Law

After literally scores of tear-jerking article from the Kansas City Star and the national media about the immigration authorities’ cruel…

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Education Finance Researchers Brief KS Lawmakers on Their Efforts

Lori L. Taylor, a Texas A&M professor, is set to deliver an educational cost function analysis to state lawmakers on…

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Colyer: Training, Arming Teachers Might Be Partial Solution

Gov. Jeff Colyer thinks arming teachers might be a good solution. He made the comments during an Axios 360 education…

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KCMO Adopts Airbnb, Short-Term Rental Regulations

Council members in Kansas City, Missouri, voted to ban short-term rentals in certain residential areas and regulate them in other…

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Sen. Roberts: NRA Will Need To Be Flexible

Sen. Pat Roberts, the dean of Kansas’ Congressional delegation, told reporters today that the National Rifle Association will need to…

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Benedictine College Honors 50th Anniversary of “Humanae Vitae”

To those not paying attention, it may not seem newsworthy that a Catholic college would honor a papal encyclical, but…

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Hartman Suspends Gubernatorial Campaign, Endorses Kobach

The race for Kansas Governor is down by one. Wichita businessman Wink Hartman suspended his campaign today. In a letter…

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Lawrence City Commission Nixes Citizen Demand to Limit Free Speech

Seemingly untroubled by a planned “flag-dragging march” in downtown Lawrence, certain Lawrence citizens were offended by the “Defend our Flag”…

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Strange But True: Maoist-Fascist Battle Disrupts KC Heavy Metal Scene

You almost have to feel sorry for the members of the Norwegian “black metal” group Taake. For the last 25…

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Kansas Senate Committee Advances “Campus Free Speech Protection Act”

On a voice vote Monday the Federal and State Affairs Committee of the Kansas Senate passed out of committee a…

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