Category: News
SFFF diverts $8.4 million from classrooms to pay lawyers
Kansas public school districts have paid more than $8.4 million in membership fees to Schools for Fair Funding (SFFF), an…
Kansas personal income growth among lowest in nation
Kansas personal income grew just 3.2% in 2018 while the nation as a whole grew 4.5% according to estimates from…
Shawnee voters reject community center tax increase
Shawnee voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to raise property taxes to fund a $38 million community center. The mail-in election…
Wichita City Council approves King of Freight WaterWalk Lease
The Wichita City Council approved a ground lease agreement with King of Freight on the WaterWalk development on Tuesday in…
Kansas legislators, governors ignore state law so they can spend more
Remember the promises about fiscal responsibility and upholding the rule of law from people running for state office over the…
City of Wichita ignores transparency request on baseball stadium
More than two month after writing a letter to Wichita officials asking for information about the city’s $75 million plan…
Kelly vetoes tax bill, reporters act like her deputies
Instead of asking hard questions about obviously misleading statements in Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of HB 2033, reporters across Kansas…
Senator Denning, House moderates disagree over Medicaid interim committee
The makeup of a Medicaid interim committee that will be tasked with writing expansion legislation is causing a rift between…
Advocates admit Medicaid expansion won’t save rural hospitals
Pressed to consider the facts with emotion removed, even some strong advocates admit Medicaid expansion won’t save rural hospitals. And…
Media bias – shaping news to fit an agenda
Media bias takes many forms, as demonstrated in a recent story that ran in the Kansas City Star and Wichita…
School district lawyers say $1 billion isn’t enough to resolve Gannon suit
Legislators just increased school funding another $90 million per year, bringing the total being phased in through the 2023 school…
Kansas budget to jump 9 percent next year
Legislators just increased the Kansas budget by almost 9 percent next year but you wouldn’t know it from reading mainstream…
Rationale of government incentives
Incentives, also known as taxpayer-funded subsidies, are the predominant methods used by government and elected officials to encourage economic development. …
KC Star political agenda drives coverage of Senator Jim Denning
The Kansas City Star’s recent coverage of State Senator Jim Denning seems driven less by facts than a dual political…
Voters to decide on Shawnee community center tax increase
Voters will soon be deciding whether property taxes should be increased to pay for a $38 million Shawnee community center.…
Arizona-like law could reduce occupational licensing hurdles in KS
Arizona became the first state in the nation to recognize occupational licenses from other states. But Arizona’s new license portability…
Foundation defends health award for Allen County
Allen County won a Culture of Health prize from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2017. Yet, the same week…
Kansas economy lagged the nation in 2018
Data released this morning by the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows the Kansas economy grew much slower than the national…
Kansas Justice Institute to educate, advocate for constitutional rights
A former Kansas woman’s fight over Arizona licensing regulations served as a catalyst for a pair of occupational licensing laws…
For-profit Iola Industries connected to KS Commerce Secretary is ‘delinquent’
For-profit Iola Industries, a company connected to Commerce Secretary David Toland, is a delinquent corporation according to the Secretary of…
Kansas economy stumbles following tax hikes
The Kansas economy was one of the slowest growing in the nation during the 3rd quarter of 2018 according data released…
90 Kansas counties lost population since 2010 Census
The 2018 population estimates just released by the U.S. Census shows Kansas grew by just 2 percent since the 2010…
KCUR report misleads on school funding
Public radio station KCUR published a story suggesting a Kansas school district can’t fund basic building maintenance, but they left…
Regulatory roadblocks to affordable housing
Kansas needs more than 50,000 affordable housing units to meet low income and affordable housing demands in the state according…