Tag: Taxes
CIS: Kansas Tax System Rewards Cheating by Illegal Aliens and Their Employers
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has discovered a glaring loophole in the way the State of Kansas collects taxes.…
Does KC Streetcar Spur Development?
Is the Kansas City Streetcar spurring development along its route? That’s the conclusion of KCUR. In a story about the…
Strange But True: KU Grad Students “Walk Out” to Protest Higher Taxes
Earlier this week the KU Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition (GTAC) staged something of a “walk out” on campus to protest…
New Poll Shows Support for Single Terminal, But One Question Is Missing
After months of relentless propaganda from all corners in support of a new single terminal at KCI, the engineering firm…
Star: “Gender-Inclusive Housing” Expands at UMKC, KU–Whatever That Means
In an age of shifting definitions readers find themselves puzzling over the meaning of headlines like this one from the…
Gallup: Americans Want Lower Taxes
Americans want lower taxes, according to a Gallup. Pollsters conducted the poll in March asking how Americans viewed a proposal…
Feds Bust 35 Missouri Convenience Store Owners for Cigarette Smuggling
With the lowest cigarette tax on the nation, Missouri has become something of a Mecca for cigarette smugglers, all puns…
House Dems Help Nix New Kansas Tax
By a 68-53 vote the Kansas House rejected a plan to increase taxes, and the Democrats made it all possible. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Show-Me Warns of $800 Million GO Bonds Blank Check
Patrick Touhey, the Western Missouri field manager of the libertarian Show-Me Institute, has his eye on the $800 million the City of…
Ill-Fated Kemper Arena Sold for a Buck
On Thursday, the Kansas City Council, by a 9-1 vote, approved the sale of Kemper Arena to Foutch Brothers for $1.…
New Business Continues to Grow in Kansas
There is not much positive effect a state tax policy can have on industries like agriculture and energy, the two…
Mayor James Fails To Sell KC Audience on GO Bonds
On Monday evening, the Waldo Towers Homes Association in conjunction with adjoining Associations hosted Kansas City Mayor Sly James in…
Citizens for a Responsible Government Fires Back at Steve Rose
Veteran pundit Steve Rose took to the pages of the Kansas City Star to scold the nonprofit watchdog group, Citizens…
KU Prof Rejects Color-Blind Ideology
The KU News Service writes favorably of an article co-authored by Subini Annamma, assistant professor of special education at KU…
CFRG Says ‘Vote No’ on $800 Million KC Bond Deal
Citizens For a Responsible Government (CFRG), a Kansas City-based watchdog group, does not like the smell of the $800 million…
Missouri AG Sues to Block “Draconian” Coal-Mining Regs
No sooner did Missouri’s new Attorney General, Josh Hawley, take office than he joined a suit to block last-minute regulations served…
KCMO to Taxpayers: Show Us the Money!
The Kansas City, Missouri City Council wants more taxpayer money, much more. Its members recently voted to put three measures…