November 23, 2024

Keeping Media and Government Accountable.

Tag: Kansas City Star

Former KS Legislature Staffer Alleges Sexual Harassment

A former Kansas Legislature staff member is alleging sexual harassment under the Dome. Abbie Hodgson told the Hill she was…

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Business Is Brisk For KU’s Famed Hate Crime Hoax Detector

Laird Wilcox, arguably the nation’s foremost hate crime hoax detector, was back in the news. The hoax du jour unfolded–and…

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Wow! Overland Park Power Bloc Bullies Challengers to Maintain Status Quo

The entrenched powers in Overland Park have resorted to playing hardball to keep a handful of feisty outsiders at bay…

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KC Star Fails To Add Context to Report on State Services

The Kansas City Star published an expose on the shrinking size of state government without providing accurate context. “A review…

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Alleged Indian Creek Killer Charged with Murdering a Woman, #6, Also White

Only those who follow the media closely know that the alleged Indian Creek killer, Fredrick Demond Scott of Kansas City,…

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Southeast KC Highways “Safe,” 10-Plus Shootings in Last Month Are “Random”

In one of the least reassuring explanations in recent memory, the Kansas City Police Department insists “there is no highway…

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Black Millennial Tells Star: “All you see in KC are Caucasians.”

Apparently, social life in Kansas City among the millennial set is not nearly as harmoniously diverse as light beer commercials…

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KC Star Threatened With Boycott Over Unhinged Anti-Anthem Editorial

The readers of Tony’s Kansas City, an influential libertarian blog, are generally slow to anger and even slower to threaten…

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Antifa Comes Armed to Kansas City Rally–Sort Of

Aware finally that the other guys have all the guns, the revolutionary media darlings known as “Antifa”–shorthand for antifascist–came armed…

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Star Cites “Liberal” Bumper Stickers for Road Rage Incident, Ignores Bird Flip

“A man in the Ozarks has been charged after he allegedly pointed his pistol at a woman because she had…

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Breaking: Police Nab Suspect in 5 South KC Trail Slayings, Star Struggles With Narrative

In an ideal world, it would not matter who was responsible for the slayings of five middle-aged white men walking…

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Sen. Caryn Tyson Joins Growing GOP Crowd for Kansas 2nd

In a remarkable bit of journalistic restraint, Jonathan Shorman of the Wichita Eagle reported the announcement by conservative Sen. Caryn…

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Star Promotes Silly CIA Hottie Scheme to Kick Trump Off Twitter

To read the headline of the prominently placed article in the Kansas City Star–“Former CIA agent wants to buy Twitter…

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KC Star Misfires Opening Salvo on Colyer, KanCare

The Kansas City Star fired its opening shots across the bow of the USS Jeff Colyer. In a story that…

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KC Star Headline Misleads on Kobach

A woman is suing, because she believes she was wrongly terminated from the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office. Kansas Secretary…

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Few Americans Want Monuments Removed

Despite repeated calls from media, official action, and protests to remove monuments across the country, the American people aren’t so…

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Clay Chastain Slams “Sick Relationship” Between Star and City Hall

Although the Sentinel did not endorse Clay Chastain’s tax proposal on the August Kansas City ballot–it has openly criticized the…

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OP Planned Parenthood in Trouble for Underage Abortion, About Time

Dr. Allen Palmer, a contract Planned Parenthood abortionist, told the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts that he relied on…

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Media Nearly Mum as Republicans Sweep Open Missouri Seats

Republicans won both open seats in the Missouri legislature in Tuesday’s special election. Voters elected Rep. Sandy Crawford from Buffalo,…

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St. Louis NAACP Slams Silly “Travel Advisory,” KC Signs On

It took the sensible leaders of the St. Louis County NAACP to do something the media were afraid to do:…

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Eagle and Star Mothership, McClatchy, Loses Half Its Value in One Year

The Kansas City Star and Wichita Eagle are no shrinking violets in expressing their predictably liberal views, but their parent–McClatchy…

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Cop Killer From KC “Asked Allah For Forgiveness”

A year ago this July Kansas City man Gavin Long drove to Baton Rouge and ambushed a group of police…

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Post-Dispatch Reports McCaskill Russian Donation, Star Still Silent

On Tuesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Sen. Claire McCaskill’s familyfoundation donated $873 to the American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation and…

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Kansas Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments on School Finance

Schools aren’t likely to be disrupted, but lawmakers may be on the hook for a special session sometime late this…

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