Tag: Kansas
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…
Homeschoolers Save Kansas $145 Million
Homeschooling saved Kansas taxpayers about $145 million last year, according to analysis by Intellectual Takeout. The Minnesota-based think tank multiplied…
Defeated Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Paul Davis to Declare for Kansas Second District
The last time Lawrence attorney Paul Davis ran for elected office he broke a lot of his supporters’ hearts and…
Wichita Makeup Artist Denied Award Due to Trump Support
Wichita makeup artist Gypsy Freeman entered a national Instagram-based contest sponsored by television personality Kat Von D–the trade name for…
Food Stamp Usage Plummets Nationwide
Food stamp usage is on the decline. The number of food stamp recipients bottomed to a seven-year low, according to…
Accused Learning It Doesn’t Pay to Rob a Kansas Gun Store
The first of the four defendants to go on trial in the fatal 2015 shooting of Jon Bieker, proprietor of…
Washington Examiner Sings Praises of Brownback, Kansas
In a rare break from the ritualistic pounding Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has grown used to, the Washington Examiner has…
Kansas Fiscal Health Ranked 32nd among States
The top-performing states tend to exhibit fiscal discipline, an area in which Kansas gets low marks, according to Mercatus. The…
Kobach Calls Reports of Mass Boycott of Voter Fraud Probe “Fake News”
On July 5, the White House Office of the Press Secretary issued a press release on the subject of voter…
Wichita Teachers Union Prez Sues Project Veritas, But Why?
Steve Wentz, president of United Teachers of Wichita, has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court’s Middle District of Florida against…
Did Kris Kobach Underestimate the Number of Illegals Voting in Kansas?
A comprehensive report released by the think tank, Just Facts, suggests that, if anything, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach…
St. Louis Nation’s 4th Worst City, Springfield 12th, KCK 49th, Wichita, KCMO, Topeka Unranked
A 24/7 Wall Street survey has fourth-place St. Louis being barely edged out by the likes of Detroit and Flint,…
Man Robs KCK Bank to Flee Wife, Sentenced to House Arrest
As the British newspaper The Independent reported, Lawrence John Ripple, 70, told his wife he would “rather be in jail than…
Still Waiting for Those Stories about Connecticut
Editorialists across the nation are scribbling furiously to announce tax cuts are bad, bad, bad. Don’t be Kansas, they warn.…
Wall Street Journal Comes Close on Kansas Politics
While it’s frustratingly apparent that most in the mainstream media have only seen Kansas via an airplane window, there’s one…
Kansas in Top 10 Best Places to Make a Living
Kansas is the 10th best state in the nation for making a living, according to MoneyRates.com. The website bases its…
KU Police Wrap Up Investigation of Rape at Basketball Dorm, Refer to DA
As reported in the Daily Kansan, the University’s Public Safety Office has wrapped up its investigation into the alleged rape of…
Rural Community Defeats School Bond Issue by 2-to-1 Margin
Voters approve most school bond issues in Kansas. It’s rare for one to fail by a wide margin, but that’s exactly…
Taxing Rich Doesn’t Work, Connecticut Learns
Kansas legislators may want to heed Connecticut’s warning. Lawmakers in the Nutmeg State face a $2.2 billion deficit next year,…
Medicaid Funds Nearly 50 Percent of All Births
Nearly half of all births in the United States are financed by Medicaid, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation Medicaid Budget Survey.…
LLCs, Pass-Throughs Account for Most Kansas Job Growth
Between 2012 and 2015, the majority of new jobs in Kansas were LLCs, sole proprietorships, and Sub S-Corps. Specifically, most of Kansas’…
Man With AK-47 Carjacks Grandma in Northeast KC
A thug bearing an AK-47 ambushed a Kansas City grandmother and her friend when they honored a stop sign at…
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…
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”…