Author: Dave Trabert
Austin, Nolan appointed to Civil Rights Advisory Committee
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights announced the appointment of 12 people to the Kansas Civil Rights Advisory Committee, including…
JoCo COVID positivity rate includes some who tested negative
The COVID positivity rate, which Johnson County health officials say is too high for schools to safely open, includes people…
USD 229: free daycare for certified staff, parents on their own
Parents already upset with USD 229 Blue Valley’s decision to severely limit in-person instruction come fall are fuming over the…
Big pay hikes for Blue Valley administrators
Parents remain frustrated over the lack of dyslexia services in USD 229 Blue Valley, which has been partially blamed on…
Top-heavy Wichita school district shortchanges teachers and students
The Kansas education tradition – suing taxpayers on the pretense of not having enough money to educate students but not…
JoCo doc: COVID positivity rate artificially high, from skewed sample
Dr. Christine White, a pediatrician with Johnson County Pediatrics, says the COVID positivity rate is artificially high because “the data…
COVID cases jumped last week in counties with mask mandates
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment spent the last two weeks trying to convince Kansans that their manipulated data…
McClatchy cover-up of KDHE deception mask-querades as news story
The McClatchy-owned Kansas City Star and Wichita Eagle on Sunday published a lengthy endorsement of the Kelly administration’s use of…
More deception: KDHE hid data to justify mask mandate
Data obtained in an Open Records request from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment shows KDHE didn’t ‘just’ manipulate…
Encouraging trends continue in the latest Kansas COVID data
Encouraging trends that developed over the last few weeks on hospitalization and mortality continued with the last Kansas COVID data…
KDHE doctored a COVID case chart to justify mask mandates
KDHE Secretary Lee Norman shared a COVID case chart with media this week, which he said shows the counties that…
Kansas media, governor hide warning signs in July tax collections
July tax collections included a few warning signs for Kansas legislators and taxpayers, but you wouldn’t know it from Governor…
Top-heavy USD 500 Kansas City shortchanges teachers and students
USD 500 Kansas City gave Superintendent Charles Foust a 17% pay increase last year, while the approximate $92 million spent…
COVID hospitalization and death rates drop again, shutdown still threatened
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s administration is still threatening to close the economy when legally permitted on September 15 even though…
Misleading COVID stats in Wichita Eagle; trends down, not up
It may not have been intentional, but a July 29 story in the Wichita Eagle misrepresented the trend of COVID-related…
Wind industry spends $180,000 supporting candidates
A July 23 campaign finance report from American Energy Action Kansas shows the Kansas wind industry spent more than $180,000…
Are Future Vision mailers about the election for Senate President?
Kansans recently received mysterious mailers from a group called Future Vision attacking multiple Kansas Senate candidates, and this prompted questions…
Gov. Kelly may close bars and nightclubs based on incomplete data
During last week’s State Finance Council meeting, Senator Jim Denning (R-Overland Park) said he’s seeing positive results from closing bars…
CDC: Pneumonia deaths exceed COVID deaths this year in Kansas
Between February 1 and July 11 this year, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) says many more people died of…
June jobs report: not good for Kansas, ignored by media
A bad June jobs report would be front-page news if Kansas had a Republican governor, but mainstream media apparently has…
HHS COVID hospital utilization site shows available capacity
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) new hospital utilization website shows utilization and available capacity for all…
Kelly administration rejects COVID open records requests
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly wants to delay opening schools and is hinting at closing the economy this fall over the…
Study: schools and colleges can safely open during COVID
A new study from The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) says America’s schools and colleges can safely reopen…
Kansas has almost 600 open ICU beds
For weeks, Kansans have been warned that a rise in COVID cases could cause hospitals to scramble for ICU beds,…