Category: News
Statistical Noise Crowds Kansas Tax Reform Study Findings
It’s almost a year old, but researchers posted to the Internet a study reviewing the impact of Kansas’s 2012 tax…
The Group That Calls Itself ‘Citizens For Responsible Government’ Challenges Downtown Hotel
On Friday, the Sentinel exposed how the Kansas City Star prefaces all articles about the watchdog group, Citizens for Responsible…
KPI Freedom Index Shows the Most Pro-Government Legislators to Be Republicans
Republicans hold the top and bottom slots in Kansas Policy Institute’s Freedom Index. Each year since 2012, KPI has rated…
Raising Taxes in Topeka the Easiest Vote
Rep. Chuck Weber is firing back at calls to increase taxes on Kansas families. “Raising taxes like so many are…
Medicaid Funds Nearly 50 Percent of All Births
Nearly half of all births in the United States are financed by Medicaid, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation Medicaid Budget Survey.…
School Funding Formula May Fund All-Day Kindergarten
A Kansas House committee spent hours crafting legislation that adds $750 million in new funding for schools over the next…
Unemployment at Near Record Lows in Kansas
Kansas’ unemployment rate continues to drop. Last week, the Kansas Department of Labor announced the latest numbers revealing the state’s…
LLCs, Pass-Throughs Account for Most Kansas Job Growth
Between 2012 and 2015, the majority of new jobs in Kansas were LLCs, sole proprietorships, and Sub S-Corps. Specifically, most of Kansas’…
Star Takes Big-Spending KC-Based Boilermakers Union to Woodshed
To give credit where it’s due, the Kansas City Star has revisited the account books of the Kansas City, Kansas-based…
Eric Teetsel, Family Policy Alliance of KS Prez, Answers Sentinel’s 20 Questions
Eric Teetsel serves as the President of the Family Policy Alliance of Kansas, an organization dedicated to pro-family public policy.…
Man With AK-47 Carjacks Grandma in Northeast KC
A thug bearing an AK-47 ambushed a Kansas City grandmother and her friend when they honored a stop sign at…
Kansas Universities to Purchase Metal Detectors
Three public Kansas universities will install metal detectors at some sporting events. The Kansas Board of Regents approved the plans…
Analyst Breaks from National Media on Estes Race
While the mainstream media calls Ron Estes’ win in Kansas’ Fourth Congressional District a narrow miss for Republicans, at least…
KCTV 5 Serves as Propaganda Arm of KCK Schools
KCTV 5 and reporter Caroline Sweeney essentially served as the public relations arm of the Kansas City, Kansas, School District on…
Media Cites Medicaid Expansion Ignoring Other Factors in Hospital Closings
Kansas editorial writers rarely consider that market forces and even government itself may have a bigger hand in painting a dire outlook for…
Brownback Names KS Sen. Jake LaTurner State Treasurer
Sen. Jake LaTurner will replace Ron Estes as the Kansas State Treasurer. Gov. Sam Brownback announced the appointment this morning…
Judge Blocks Executions Then Attends Anti-Death Penalty Rally
An Arkansas judge barred the state from executing 8 inmates last week just before tying himself to a gurney at…
Prosecutors Charge North KC Teacher With Sodomy
Jackson County prosecutors charged James Green Jr., 52, currently a teacher and coach at Northgate Middle School in the North Kansas…
Nativity House KC: Philanthropy Gets Entrepreneurial
Strange but true: there are still organizations in the Kansas City area that work to assist people in need and…
MU’s Michael Sam Blames the Media for Failed NFL Career
When University of Missouri defensive Michael Sam announced he was gay in February 2014, he expected the hubbub to last…
Former Star Sportswriter Jason Whitlock Slams “Far-Left Political Ideologues”
Love him or hate him, no one ever accused former ESPN pundit and Kansas City Star sportswriter Jason Whitlock of…
Medicaid Reimbursement Payments Cost St. Francis Hospital
Medicaid expansion proponents say they’ll make another attempt to expand Obamacare in Kansas when the state legislature reconvenes for wrap…
Expanding Medicaid: the Sequel?
Medicaid expansion advocates say they will make another attempt at expanding the program. Public radio reports, “Advocates of expanding Medicaid…
Wichita’s Thompson a Registered Republican Until 2016
James A. Thompson, the Democrat running to replace Mike Pompeo in the U.S. Congress hasn’t been a Democrat for long. He…