July 30, 2024

Keeping Media and Government Accountable.

Category: News

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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No Gun Incidents at K-State Since Campus Carry, Collegian Reports

The Kansas State Collegian reports zero gun incidents at the K-State since a law allowing individuals to carry concealed weapons…

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Breaking: Kansas Suspends License of OP Planned Parenthood Abortionist

As reported by Operation Rescue, the Kansas Board of Healing Arts suspended the osteopathic medicine license of abortionist Dr. Allen…

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Blue Valley District So Poor It Spent $130K in Legal Fees to Deny a Student Books

The Blue Valley School District is so poor officials spent $130,000 in legal fees trying to get out of an…

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Lawrence High Grooms Fresh Snowflakes For Future Campus Meltdowns

On Monday as many as 100 students at Lawrence High staged something of a sit-down strike to protest “disrespectful” comments…

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Kansas Labor Report a ‘Mixed Bag’

The Kansas unemployment rate ticked up in August, according to the Kansas Department of Labor. The state’s unemployment rate in…

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Black Millennial Tells Star: “All you see in KC are Caucasians.”

Apparently, social life in Kansas City among the millennial set is not nearly as harmoniously diverse as light beer commercials…

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Town Hall Meeting about Tyson Chicken Set for Tonight

Area residents will have an opportunity to voice some of their concerns about a proposal to build a Tyson Foods chicken manufacturing…

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KC Star Threatened With Boycott Over Unhinged Anti-Anthem Editorial

The readers of Tony’s Kansas City, an influential libertarian blog, are generally slow to anger and even slower to threaten…

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Why KC Burglar Keeps Getting Sprung to Burgle Some More

Concerned about the rash of burglaries in Kansas City’s otherwise pleasant Brookside neighborhood, activist John Murphy inquired into the cause,…

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Antifa Comes Armed to Kansas City Rally–Sort Of

Aware finally that the other guys have all the guns, the revolutionary media darlings known as “Antifa”–shorthand for antifascist–came armed…

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