Category: News
Brownback Allows Gun Restriction to Become Law
Over the objections of Second Amendment advocates, Gov. Sam Brownback allowed a gun bill to become law without his signature…
Lawmakers Expand School Choice Program
Kansas lawmakers expanded a small school choice program as part of the new school finance formula. Gov. Sam Brownback signed…
Man Robs KCK Bank to Flee Wife, Sentenced to House Arrest
As the British newspaper The Independent reported, Lawrence John Ripple, 70, told his wife he would “rather be in jail than…
Northland Man on Scalise Shooter: “He Couldn’t Handle Trump”
A Northland man who grew up with James Hodgkinson, the shooter of Rep. Steve Scalise and four others, told Fox4kc that…
Brownback Signs School Finance Bill
Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law today a school financing bill. The bill, which largely mirrors a 1992 financing formula,…
Can a Pro-life Candidate Win a Democratic Primary?
Kansas Democratic voters will have a primary for the first time in decades in 2018. Their choices will include a…
First World News: KC Woman Without Hot Water for Two Weeks
Last week a Kansas City woman found a cricket in her Chinese take-out, and this week a woman has had…
Yoder Worries Socialized Medicine Knocking on America’s Door
Socialized health care is bad medicine, according to Congressman Kevin Yoder, R-Kansas. He penned an editorial for Fox News this…
Still Waiting for Those Stories about Connecticut
Editorialists across the nation are scribbling furiously to announce tax cuts are bad, bad, bad. Don’t be Kansas, they warn.…
Wall Street Journal Comes Close on Kansas Politics
While it’s frustratingly apparent that most in the mainstream media have only seen Kansas via an airplane window, there’s one…
Star Fails to Find People Who Oppose Tax Increase
Somehow, a reporter for the Kansas City Star toured Kansas and could barely find a single person opposed to a…
Jake LaTurner Answers the Sentinel’s 20 Questions
Jake LaTurner was sworn in as the Kansas State Treasurer on April 26. He replaced Ron Estes, who was elected to…
Signs of K-12 Education Overspending Abound
There’s a possibility that some public schools spend more than necessary. Though that sort of blasphemy is rarely discussed in polite…
Bandage Rather Than Cure? Citizens Propose Trail Curfew
Kansas City, Mo., officials are brainstorming ways to increase safety on public trails following a series of murders along Indian…
Anti-Free Speech Extremists Launch Petition against Vitae Foundation
Fresh off Planned Parenthood’s successful censoring of innocuous Advice & Aid Pregnancy Crisis Center advertisements, anti-free speech extremists from UltraViolet are…
Representative Mentions Weapon, Media Imagines Threat
A Kansas representative tweeted to another that there are 25 people carrying guns in the House Chambers prior to a vote,…
Planned Parenthood pressures 96.5 The Buzz into dropping Advice & Aid advertising
Kansas City radio station 96.5, “The Buzz,” shut down an advertising campaign the station had contracted with Advice & Aid…
Kansas City Neighborhood Makes America’s “5 Most Dangerous” List
Although Kansas City did not gain the top spot, it did earn an impressive fourth place in a feature titled,…
Conference Committee To Hash Out School Funding Legislation
A conference committee will hash out the differences between Kansas House and Senate school funding legislation. There will not be…
Chamber Poll: Kansans Don’t Want Tax Hike
A new poll suggests Kansans prefer spending cuts to tax hikes on the middle class. The Kansas Chamber of Commerce yesterday…
Feds Bust 35 Missouri Convenience Store Owners for Cigarette Smuggling
With the lowest cigarette tax on the nation, Missouri has become something of a Mecca for cigarette smugglers, all puns…
Kansas Mod and Dem Battle Tax Plan on Twitter
A pair of Kansas lawmakers took to Twitter to continue the debate over differing votes on a tax bill in the Kansas…
Breaking: Senate Passes School Funding Bill
The Kansas Senate passed school finance legislation similar House school finance legislation that will increase school funding by $230 million…
Kansas in Top 10 Best Places to Make a Living
Kansas is the 10th best state in the nation for making a living, according to MoneyRates.com. The website bases its…