Category: Editorial
Blue Valley board to students and parents: No soup for you!
While watching the Blue Valley school board’s April 8 meeting to rule on parents’ requests for COVID mask accommodations for…
Blue Valley district deprives parents of due process rights
The Blue Valley school district in Johnson County deprived two parents of their due process rights on Tuesday when the…
Stand Up Blue Valley: fund systems, not students
The Kansas House of Representatives just approved legislation to give academically challenged students a chance for a better education, and…
Biden bailout (unconstitutionally) prohibits state tax cuts or rebates
Buried on page 579 of the $1.9 trillion so-called stimulus bill is a provision that prohibits state tax cuts between…
State Treasurer Lynn Rogers deceives taxpayers on ESA programs
State Treasurer Lynn Rogers, a Wichita Democrat, recently took a hard stance against legislation that would expand educational opportunities for…
KBOE President Jim Porter deceives on student achievement (again)
State Board of Education President Jim Porter made a conscious attempt to deceive members of the House K-12 Budget Committee…
KS education lobby attacks opportunity – Part 3, KASB
The Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB), the taxpayer-funded lobbying arm of local school boards, this week renewed their opposition…
KS education lobby attacks opportunity – Part 2, SMSD
The Shawnee Mission School District (SMSD) is part of the education lobby that is attacking opportunity for students who are…
USD 231 said less than 25% of MS and HS kids remote
USD 231 Gardner Edgerton earlier this week blamed “confusing” questions from the Kansas Dept. of Education (KSDE) for reporting the…
Framework for Growth: more of what failed to produce growth
With Kansas in its fifth straight decade of economic stagnation, Commerce Secretary David Toland’s Framework for Growth plan looks to…
Delaying property tax honesty bill implementation is bad for taxpayers
A parade of city and county officials yesterday asked the House Taxation Committee to delay implementation of the property tax…
COVID vaccines should go to elderly before prisoners
Governor Laura Kelly’s intention to give the COVID vaccines to prisoners ahead of the elderly and others among the most…
More false accusations from Kansas Reflector and ESU prof
An opinion piece in the left-leaning Kansas Reflector criticizing the Sentinel and Kansas Policy Institute for our work to inform…
KDHE claims not to know total number of Kansas deaths in 2020
In response to our Kansas Open Records Act, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment says it doesn’t know the…
Support honest journalism this Giving Tuesday
Media bias is a growing threat to liberty and you can do something about it this Giving Tuesday, December 1,…
KDHE, media collaborate on more mask mandate deception
Once again, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and media are collaborating to deceive Kansans about the effectiveness of…
Kansas Reflector legislative coverage puts media bias on full display
Media bias comes in many flavors; making outright false claims, slipping editorial statements in news stories to push a political…
Open schools now
Another Johnson County teenager committed suicide last week due to COVID restrictions imposed by school boards and county health officials,…
The school board you elect is the school board you deserve
Thomas Jefferson’s warning – “The government you elect is the government you deserve” – is certainly ringing true these days,…
Kelly admin irresponsibly trying to scare Kansans into submission
Governor Laura Kelly and KDHE Secretary Dr. Lee Norman should be providing comprehensive information that puts COVID in context but…
Media covering up government misdeeds is a serious threat to liberty
On Monday, September 14, Democratic Kansas Governor Laura Kelly carefully parsed her words to make Kansans believe 23 people died…