Tag: Richard Hilderbrand
Kansas paid Medicaid providers over $17 million for dead people
An internal state audit of the Kansas Medicaid system, released in late July, revealed $1.3 in inappropriate payments to the…
Gov. Kelly won’t discuss federal grants to take unaccompanied minors
Sen. Richard Hilderbrand, a Baxter Springs Republican, is finding it difficult to get information about Kansas being paid to resettle…
Families explain devastating impact of disallowing nursing home visitors
Federal strings attached to nursing home funding required Kansas long-term facilities to shutter residents and lock visitors out during the…
Kelly admin calls withholding vaccines ‘enforcement mechanism’
Yesterday, we learned that KDHE ordered Riley County to stop vaccinating people until other counties caught up, and threatened to…
KS COVID vaccinations continue to lag most of the nation
Kansas administered only 67% of the COVID vaccine doses it has received so far and Gov. Kelly blames the state’s…
KS lawmakers anticipate few changes to state election laws
While Republican lawmakers in several states are preparing legislation to overhaul election processes, Kansas legislators are looking at minor updates…
Audit: $20 million Angel Investor program rife with problems
A damning report from the Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit says the Angel Investor tax credit program designed to…
GOP lawmakers blast Kelly’s plan to reopen Kansas
On Thursday, Governor Laura Kelly unveiled her plan to reopen Kansas, which won’t allow the state economy to be completely…
Kansas faces huge state budget deficits due to COVID-19
Late last week, Kansas Policy Institute released a report showing the state of Kansas is facing potential state budget deficits between…
McKinsey & Company selected over experienced, less costly firms for study
The Kansas Department of Commerce disregarded bids from experienced and less expensive companies to create an economic development strategy for…
Legislators hope to preempt federal red-flag laws
Two Kansas legislators have pre-filed a bill they hope will protect Kansans from so-called “red-flag” laws, sometimes called “extreme risk…
McKinsey invitation-only workshops focus on growing government
McKinsey & Company recently completed a series of workshops across the state as part of the firm’s $800,000 contract to…
Record 18 legislators score above 90% on 2019 Kansas Freedom Index
Eighteen Kansas House and Senate members scored better than 90% on the 2019 Kansas Freedom Index, besting the previous high of…
Kansas foster care challenges complicated by politics
The International Foster Care Organization defines foster care as “… a way of providing a family life for children who…
Kansas Unemployment Dips to Lowest Rate since 2000
Kansas’ unemployment rate dipped to a new low in October, according to preliminary estimates from the Kansas Department of Labor…