Category: News
Greitens Case Gets More Perverse, Judge Turns to Jackson County for Special Prosecutor
Given the lack of crime and corruption in Jackson County, County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker has been appointed “Special Prosecutor”…
The Grades Are In For KCK Schools–Worse Than You Imagine!
In a comprehensive review, the Kansas Policy Institute (KPI) has issued easily understood A-F grades for every school in the…
KU Athletic Director “Relieved of Duties,” Walks Away $1.4 Million Richer
KU Director of Athletics Sheahon Zenger is out of a job, and the taxpayers of Kansas are out a caboodle…
While Kansas Is Raising Taxes, Missouri Is Cutting Theirs
For years, generations really, the traditionally Republican Kansas has been a more business-friendly state than the traditionally Democratic Missouri. That…
KPI Honors 4 Topeka Schools For Improved Performance
The Kansas Policy Institute (KPI) does not award participation trophies. So parents at those four Topeka public schools that had…
Grades Are In For Shawnee Mission Schools, Parents Brace Yourselves
In a comprehensive review, the Kansas Policy Institute (KPI) has issued easily understood A-F grades for every school in the…
Fox2 St. Louis Traces Greitens Investigation to Low-Income Housing Scam
Whatever his flaws, Eric Greitens was the first Missouri governor to try to stop a program called the Low-Income Housing Tax…
Illegal Alien Goes On Murderous Northland Shooting Spree, Media Bury Story
Talk about burying a lead–the Kansas City Star goes an incredible twenty paragraphs into its story on a man’s murderous…
Sigh! Danedri Herbert Is Moving On
Danedri Herbert, the stellar co-editor of the Sentinel since its founding a year-and-a-half ago, has received the proverbial offer she…
327 New KPERS “Millionaires” Join the 2,000 Existing KPERS Millionaires
There are many routes to making a million dollars, but the surest and safest one may be to get a…
Shocker: St. Louis Circuit Attorney Drops Case Against Greitens
Likely fearing that she would end up in more legal jeopardy than the accused, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner dropped…
Media Refuse to See Link Between Uptown Violence and Rap Music
“Police said officers responded at 11:28 p.m. to a parking lot near the Uptown Theater in the 3700 block of…
KU Hard Pressed to Explain 42% One-Year Bump in Athletic Salaries
Although coaching salaries are paid out of a separate budget, non-coaching salaries in a university’s athletic department are not. Tax…
Missouri Dems Expel Rep on Race Issue, Trump Assassin Champ Remains
Democrats in the Missouri House on Thursday voted to “expel” state Rep. Bob Burns from their caucus for calling in…
Kansas Ranks Below 47 Other States in Public Employees per Capita
Kansas may not be rich in beachfront property or skyscrapers, but the Sunflower State has more government employees per 10,000…
Eagle, Star Hemorrhaging Cash, Staff
McClatchy, the newspaper chain that owns the Kansas City Star and the Wichita Eagle, continues to hemorrhage value, according to…
Gay Fireman Cleared On All Counts In Hooters Spitting Case
It is a testament to how far we have come as a society that an incident in which a gay…
Are Taxpayers Getting a Bum Deal from Prairiefire Tax Incentives?
Cracks are beginning to show in Overland Park’s investment in the Prairiefire. The city dropped $100 million in tax incentives…
Greitens Accuser, A Planned Parenthood “Activist” And Possible Pawn Of House Dems
The already murky “invasion of privacy” case against Gov. Eric Greitens has gotten murkier with the revelation in Breitbart.com that…
Kansas City Butt of Twitter Prank Gone Viral
Sorry, kids, but it’s a prank. Kansas City has never produced or posted signs that read, “Did you know Kansas…
Illegal Alien Pleads Guilty To Killing St. Louis Man In Dispute Over Candy Bar
On Monday, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Taleb Jawher “pleaded guilty to being an illegal alien in possession of a…
Kansas GDP Falls, But Lawyers Want $1.5 Billion “More” For Schools
Forget the GDP–the half billion or so of newly committed money is apparently not money enough for the lawyers representing…
UK Publication: Greitens Prosecutor “Must Be Investigated”
The headline of a column in the Sunday British Observer had to have raised eyebrows from St. Louis to Jefferson…
FL Reaps Better Educational Achievement than KS for Less Money
Florida spends significantly less per pupil on education, but that didn’t stop its students from outperforming Kansas students on the…