Category: News
Breaking: Fifth South KC Walking Trail Homicide Victim Also White
Credit goes to the Hays Post for answering the obvious question that Kansas City media were reluctant to ask: what…
Missourian: “Peace Activist Cited for Disturbing the Peace”
Although not known for its sense of humor, the Columbia Missourian wins the Sentinel’s best Memorial Day headline award for…
Editorial Boards Bemoan Limited Kansas Judiciary Funding
Those working in the Kansas judicial system might be underpaid. Keyword, “might.” Of course, the Kansas City Star editorial board…
Mainstream Coalition Mainstream? Not Exactly
For more than two decades, the Mainstream Coalition has billed itself as a “rational voice in irrational times.” Initially created…
Update: Police Identify the Fifth South KC Hiking Trail Victim
Kansas City police have identified the fifth man found on or near a South Kansas City hiking trail as 31-year-old…
Darwin Award Awaits Man Who Burgled Home of Acting KCPD Chief
When Thomas Savage, 19, snatched those commemorative badges and KCPD anniversary rings, he may have sensed that he picked the wrong…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…