Tag: Government
Comey Gets Standing O From Sold-Out KC Crowd
Between October 28, 2016, and May, 9, 2017, only one man in America was more despised by the leftward third…
KU Athletic Director “Relieved of Duties,” Walks Away $1.4 Million Richer
KU Director of Athletics Sheahon Zenger is out of a job, and the taxpayers of Kansas are out a caboodle…
While Kansas Is Raising Taxes, Missouri Is Cutting Theirs
For years, generations really, the traditionally Republican Kansas has been a more business-friendly state than the traditionally Democratic Missouri. That…
Grades Are In For Shawnee Mission Schools, Parents Brace Yourselves
In a comprehensive review, the Kansas Policy Institute (KPI) has issued easily understood A-F grades for every school in the…
Fox2 St. Louis Traces Greitens Investigation to Low-Income Housing Scam
Whatever his flaws, Eric Greitens was the first Missouri governor to try to stop a program called the Low-Income Housing Tax…
327 New KPERS “Millionaires” Join the 2,000 Existing KPERS Millionaires
There are many routes to making a million dollars, but the surest and safest one may be to get a…
Shocker: St. Louis Circuit Attorney Drops Case Against Greitens
Likely fearing that she would end up in more legal jeopardy than the accused, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner dropped…
KU Hard Pressed to Explain 42% One-Year Bump in Athletic Salaries
Although coaching salaries are paid out of a separate budget, non-coaching salaries in a university’s athletic department are not. Tax…
Missouri Dems Expel Rep on Race Issue, Trump Assassin Champ Remains
Democrats in the Missouri House on Thursday voted to “expel” state Rep. Bob Burns from their caucus for calling in…
Greitens Accuser, A Planned Parenthood “Activist” And Possible Pawn Of House Dems
The already murky “invasion of privacy” case against Gov. Eric Greitens has gotten murkier with the revelation in Breitbart.com that…
Kansas GDP Falls, But Lawyers Want $1.5 Billion “More” For Schools
Forget the GDP–the half billion or so of newly committed money is apparently not money enough for the lawyers representing…
UK Publication: Greitens Prosecutor “Must Be Investigated”
The headline of a column in the Sunday British Observer had to have raised eyebrows from St. Louis to Jefferson…
Economist: “Kansas Has Fallen Back To Where It Was Before Tax Reform”
According to Jonathan Williams, chief economist with the American Legislative Exchange Council, “Kansas has fallen back to where it was…
Twitter Explodes Over News That Newspaper Publisher Paid 50K To Expose Greitens
Missouri Times publisher Scott Faughn was working on a book about the 2016 Missouri Governors’ race–yawn!–and thought what better way…
Nearly 300 Kansans In Higher Ed Make 200K, More Than 100 At KU
According to figures released by the Kansas Policy Institute for the 2017-18 academic year, the State of Kansas pays 292…
Judge in Greitens Case Slams State For “Sanctionable Discovery Violations”
Having reminded the prosecutors in the Greitens case that “these rules are not mere rules of etiquette,” Circuit Judge Rex…
With Sheriff Scandal, If Jackson County Is “Garden of Eden” It’s After The Fall
The anthemic song, “I Believe,” in the Broadway megahit Book of Mormon has this one eye-popping lyric, “I believe that…
Breaking: Greitens’ Prosecutors Produce Missing Video Hours After Release of House Report
On Thursday in open court, James Martin, a defense attorney for Gov. Eric Greitens, spoke to the issue of a…
Sen. Booker Slams Pompeo For Having Same Gay Marriage Stance As Obama
Said then Congressman Mike Pompeo of the Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage, “I am deeply saddened by the…
Hickman-Mills Teacher Shows 5th Graders Pix of Naked Women, District Not Sure Why
Dominique Jones, the mother of a Hickman-Mills 5th Grader, had a hard time believing her daughter when she she said…
Greitens Prosecutors May Have Destroyed Key Witness Tape
Although she died more than 30 years after her boss Richard Nixon left office, the New York Times reminded its…
Breaking: Greitens Accuser Admits Photo Session May Have Been A “Dream”
One of the most contentious issues in the State of Missouri’s case against Gov. Eric Greitens has been the whereabouts…
Tired of Appeasing the Beast, Kansas Senate Leaders Want to Take Away Its Power
For years now, legislators in the State of Kansas have been paying nervous tribute to the Kansas Supreme Court. Indeed,…
Breaking: State Rep Files Complaint Against Greitens Prosecutor
Marine Corps veteran Paul Curtman, a state representative from eastern Missouri, is preparing for battle once more, this time against…