Tag: Government
Fitzgerald: In Kansas, Educational Choice “A Parental Rights Issue”
In reviewing the most recent Kansas Supreme Court decision, Sen. Steve Fitzgerald came to a conclusion the Court likely did…
Solyndra East? KC Solar Company in Near Total Eclipse
The future looked spectacularly sunny less than two years ago when California-based solar energy company Sungevity opened its Downtown Kansas…
MU Brass Peel Off Millions in Incentives As University Flounders
Bad enough that their football and basketball teams crash, that their enrollment collapses, that their reputation craters after the…
Feds Bust KC Couple in Immigration Marriage Scam
On Wednesday, 49-year-old Delmar Dixon and 37-year-old Shakeisha Harrison, both of Kansas City, pleaded guilty to their respective roles in…
Show-Me: City Math Fuzzy on Go Bonds Costs
Patrick Touhey, Western Missouri field manager for the libertarian think tank the Show-Me Institute, has a real problem with the…
Illegal Alien Accused of Rape in UMKC Dorm
According to Fox4 KC, the federal immigration department has placed a hold on 22-year-old Juan Contreras for raping an incapacitated woman in UMKC’s…
KC Firefighter Earns 232K in 2016, 100 Make More Than 107K
According to the Kansas City Star, a Kansas City, Missouri, firefighter/paramedic made $232,105 last year, $80,000 more than the fire chief Fire…
The Sky Hasn’t Fallen–Top 20 Area Public Elementary Schools All in Johnson County
According to the educational ranking service, Niche, as reported by the Kansas City Business Journal, Johnson County public elementary schools,…
$15 Minimum Wage Goes on KC August Ballot, Kansans Hoping It Passes
If local social justice warriors have their way, minimum wage workers in Kansas City, Missouri, could see their salaries nearly…
Tony Botello of “Tony’s Kansas City” Answers the Sentinel’s 20 Questions
What the major media most resent about the alternative media is the latter’s freedom to pursue the truth. By…
Breaking: Tonganoxie School Super Arrested for School Sex Cover-Up
On Tuesday, prosecutors in Linn County charged Chris Kleidosty, currently superintendent of the Tonganoxie Unified School District, with failing to…
Show-Me Warns of $800 Million GO Bonds Blank Check
Patrick Touhey, the Western Missouri field manager of the libertarian Show-Me Institute, has his eye on the $800 million the City of…
Will U Cal Berkeley Boycott National Debate Championship at KU?
According to Southern Methodist University professor Ben Voth, writing in the American Thinker, two teams from the University of California…
McCaskill Hopes to Tie Trump’s Hands on Russia
“You can talk all you want about Russia, which was all, you know, fake news, fabricated deal, to try and…
Ill-Fated Kemper Arena Sold for a Buck
On Thursday, the Kansas City Council, by a 9-1 vote, approved the sale of Kemper Arena to Foutch Brothers for $1.…
New Business Continues to Grow in Kansas
There is not much positive effect a state tax policy can have on industries like agriculture and energy, the two…
Missouri Prison Population Up By 2500
Since 2006, Missouri’s prison population has risen by roughly 2,500 inmates, an 8 percent increase since 2006. In a hearing on…
Missouri Unions Plot to Undo Right-To-Work
As reported in Missourinet, labor leaders from around Missouri are contemplating ways of putting Missouri’s newly-passed right-to-work law before…
Mayor James Fails To Sell KC Audience on GO Bonds
On Monday evening, the Waldo Towers Homes Association in conjunction with adjoining Associations hosted Kansas City Mayor Sly James in…
Hard Left Turns on Soft Left in KC Protest
On Friday at 4:30 p.m. a coalition of hard left organizations will be holding a rally at the Oppenstein Park…
Missouri Executes First Man in Greitens Era
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens declined a clemency request for Mark Christeson, 37, and on Tuesday the Missouri man moved on to…
Kansas City on Pace to Pass 2016 Homicide Rate
The most serious problem that the city of Kansas City, Missouri, faces is one that its elected officials refuse to…
Yael Pushes Kander for President in 2020, Seriously
Long time Star editorialist turned blogger Yael Abouhalkah believes that former Missouri secretary of state Jason Kander is presidential timber (or…
Can New Star Editor Live Down Wikileaks Revelation?
The Kansas City Star has recently shaken up its editorial board. Management put out to pasture long time editorial writers…