October 30, 2024

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Category: News

Regents Names New KU Chancellor

The Kansas Board of Regents named Doug Girod as the 18th Chancellor of the University of Kansas Thursday. Girod is a…

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Kansas House Adopts School Finance Formula

The Kansas House adopted a school finance formula that will pump an additional $279 million of state funding into K-12…

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Special Senate Committee Debates School Finance

An averaging choice, district accountability concerns, and a decision to give full-ride scholarships to out-of-state students in Kansas public schools…

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Kansas Tax Credit Scholarship Program Under Fire

A small scholarship program that allows some kids in failing schools to attend private schools is under fire in the…

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House Dems Help Nix New Kansas Tax

By a 68-53 vote the Kansas House rejected a plan to increase taxes, and the Democrats made it all possible. …

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Coalition Proposes Kansas Budget without Tax Increase

A coalition of Republicans announced a budget proposal to balance the budget without tax increases Monday afternoon. Chuck Weber, a Wichita…

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Student Journalists Seek School Official Accountability

Student journalists are demanding in an editorial that the Pittsburg School District Superintendent Destry Brown be held accountable for hiring…

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Homicide Cop: Steer Clear of Indian Creek “Until Police Have Made an Arrest”

The murder of four middle-aged white men along Kansas City’s Indian Creek Trail System has gotten the attention of the…

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City Resists Homicide Trend, Second South KC Dog Walker Murdered

Police are investigating the death of popular sports bar owner Mike Darby as a homicide. Darby had been walking his dogs…

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Newton Kansan Warns Schools May Close

The Newton Kansan warns readers schools will close unless lawmakers pony up more than $750 million in less than five…

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Kansans Want Spending Cuts; Lawmakers Propose New Taxes

Despite a recent poll showing a large majority of Kansans prefer cutting government spending to increasing taxes, lawmakers continue to…

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State Failed Adrian Jones So Solution Is More State

Abusive parents murdered a child, so homeschoolers should pay. That’s apparently the thinking behind proposals to require homeschooled children have contact…

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Columbia Man Uses Missouri Law to Sue Hershey Over Missing Reese’s Pieces

An arguably even greater waste of taxpayer money than Pvt. Manning’s makeover is a case in federal court involving the…

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Wamego Tourist Boom Coincides with Marshall Town Hall

Wamego experienced a tourist boom last week. That’s good news for a struggling ag sector in Kansas. Cars with tags…

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Gov. Brownback May Become Ambassador for Religious Freedom

World Magazine, a highly respected Christian publication, says today that Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback may be the next ambassador-at-large for…

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MU B-Ball Team Posts Lowest Academic Score of All Six Major Conferences

If the University of Missouri did not have enough trouble with its sports team, its men’s basketball program registered the…

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Northland Teens Go Gangster in Wild Shoot-Out

In one of the wildest Northland shoot-outs since Bonnie and Clyde burst out of their Platte City motor court, two…

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Lansing Student May Miss Graduation over iPad Screen

Andrew Rogers missed his senior prom, and his mother believes a politically-motivated stalemate with school administrators may cost him the…

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KU Police Wrap Up Investigation of Rape at Basketball Dorm, Refer to DA

As reported in the Daily Kansan, the University’s Public Safety Office has wrapped up its investigation into the alleged rape of…

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Huffy City Officials Plead for Removal of Tax Lid

The McPherson Mayor and plenty of his cohorts in municipal government are gearing up for a snit fit over the…

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Somali Immigrant Suspected of “Jihadist Activities” Charged in KC

Last week federal prosecutors in Kansas City charged Isse Aweis Mohamud, suspected of jihadist activities by his own family, with passport…

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Kansans Enjoyed Low Rates before Obamacare

There’s a side of the healthcare debate that isn’t being told, according to Mike Pirner. The Lenexa small business owner…

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KS Lawmakers, Former Govs Weigh in on Tax Negotiations

Kansas lawmakers are attempting to thread a needle on a tax proposal that will gain Gov. Brownback’s support or garner…

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Columbia Donut Shop Closes, Owner Blames MU Brouhaha

“Love you Columbia,” wrote Jason Brockman, owner of Strange Donuts, “but we gotta keep it moving.” “Effective immediately,” Brockman continued,…

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