December 23, 2024

Keeping Media and Government Accountable.

Tag: Government

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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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