March 28, 2024

Keeping Media and Government Accountable.

Category: News

Can the State Supreme Court Close Kansas Schools?

The state Supreme Court didn’t explicitly threaten to close Kansas schools in its latest opinion that found public school financing…

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Missouri Travel Advisory: Social Justice Warriors Still Blocking St. Louis Highways

The NAACP proved prophetic in issuing a Missouri travel advisory as aspiring social justice warriors continue to block Missouri highways.…

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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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Brownback Answers Questions at Confirmation Hearing

Gov. Sam Brownback had a job interview this morning. As President Trump’s nominee for the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious…

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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…

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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…

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More Kids Enroll in College Thanks to Florida School Choice

More Florida kids are enrolling in college, and one study concludes the nation’s largest school choice program, the Florida Tax…

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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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Number of Kansas Kids in Poverty Dips Well Below National Average

Fewer Kansas kids are in poverty, according to the annual Kids Count Survey. Only 14 percent of Kansas children live…

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Pizza Hut Suspends Worker After Defending Shop in “Good Old-Fashioned Gunfight”

Selling pizza–and delivering it–is a dangerous business. A week ago in Kansas City, a group of young adults attacked a…

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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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CNBC Writer Gets It: Kansas Mistake Was Not Cutting Spending

The conventional wisdom on Kansas tax reform is wrong, according to Jake Novak, a CNBC columnist. He hopes Washington will…

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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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New School Super: “Kansas Really Supports Their Educators”

Angela Holloway-Payne, who left her native Memphis for a job as a school superintendent in Kansas, told the Hutchinson News…

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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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