October 15, 2024

Keeping Media and Government Accountable.

Tag: Government

Missouri Senate Candidate Tony Monetti Has Unusual Background

On Monday, May 8, Tony Monetti, a Republican from Warrensburg, will be announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on…

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The Group That Calls Itself ‘Citizens For Responsible Government’ Challenges Downtown Hotel

On Friday, the Sentinel exposed how the Kansas City Star prefaces all articles about the watchdog group, Citizens for Responsible…

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Star Takes Big-Spending KC-Based Boilermakers Union to Woodshed

To give credit where it’s due, the Kansas City Star has revisited the account books of the Kansas City, Kansas-based…

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Prosecutors Charge North KC Teacher With Sodomy

Jackson County prosecutors charged James Green Jr., 52, currently a teacher and coach at Northgate Middle School in the North Kansas…

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Nativity House KC: Philanthropy Gets Entrepreneurial

Strange but true: there are still organizations in the Kansas City area that work to assist people in need and…

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No Joke: WSU Student Government Bans Libertarian Group For Support of First Amendment

University student governments are making parody difficult. On Wednesday of this week, the Wichita State University Student Government Association (SGA) refused…

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Kansas Rep Lance Kinzer Featured in Best-Selling “Benedict Option”

In his New York Times review written on the day the book came out three weeks ago, David Brooks called…

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Sedgwick County Claims to Have Responded to Trump Sanctuary EO

In an article posted this morning, the Sentinel shared the results of a recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) list of so-called “sanctuary”…

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Finney County Convincingly Protests “Sanctuary” Label

In an article posted this morning, the Sentinel shared the results of a recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) list…

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Star on Susan Rice Scandal: “Trump Steps Up Effort to Dispute and Distract on Russia”

If the reader needed just one headline to document the Kansas City Star’s unrelenting bias it would be the one…

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Five Kansas Counties Go “Sanctuary,” None in Missouri

UPDATE: Finney County has protested its inclusion on the list and Sedgwick County claims it has begun to cooperate. In…

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Sessions: Missouri Murder Spike Not a “Blip,” Cites Heroin, Opioids

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session spoke Friday in St. Louis to state and community leaders and members of law enforcement.…

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Johnson, Platte Top Healthy County List, Wyandotte Next-to-Last

  According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s annual county health rankings, Johnson County clocks in as the healthiest in Kansas, and…

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California AG Charges KFL Speaker with 15 Felonies

In California, as David Daleiden has learned, it is perfectly acceptable to kill healthy unborn babies, dismember them, and traffic…

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New Subsidized KC Grocery to Replace Old Subsidized Grocery

With much fanfare, the City of Kansas City, Missouri, has started demolition on an old grocery story on Linwood and…

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FBI Analyst Slams Star Coverage of UMKC Rape

Frustrated by the failure of the local media to cover the rape of an unconscious co-ed in her UMKC dorm…

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JoCo Sheriff’s Deputies Making Up to 75K in OT

One can hardly blame the deputies themselves for taking advantage of the opportunity–they may not have had any choice–but something…

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The Northland News Publisher Andrew Palmer Answers The Sentinel’s 20 Question

A 2007 graduate of UMKC and a former school teacher, Andrew Palmer has shown that you do not need to…

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KU Fans Breathe Easy, Josh Jackson Good to Go

“Hell no!” said KU basketball coach Bill Self when asked if he had seen anything that might prevent star freshman…

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Is City Using Trump to Sell KCI Single Terminal, Go Bonds?

A friend of the Sentinel received a call today from a sophisticated push pollster hoping to measure the respondent’s thoughts…

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OP Rep Chides Peers For “Anti-University, Anti-Intellectualism” in Campus Carry Debate

Rep. Stephanie Clayton, an Overland Park Republican, does not like the idea of “campus carry” and does not exactly respect…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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