Category: News
21,904 People Died Waiting for Services in Medicaid Expansion States, Report Finds
Medicaid expansion isn’t what the doctor ordered. Gov. Jeff Colyer told a handful of lawmakers on Monday that he isn’t interested…
KU IOA Office Reports 5 Times as Many Sexual Assaults as Campus Police
There is a huge disparity in the way KU’s office of Institutional Opportunity and Access (IOA) reports sexual assaults, and…
Activist Chastain Sues KCMO For Defamation, Had Been Put On “Watch List” As Armed And Dangerous
Veteran activist Clay Chastain, best known for his light rail advocacy, has filed suit against the City of Kansas City,…
KU Crime Down 13 Percent, No Weapons Violations in Year One of Campus Carry
It would be rash to credit a 13 percent annual drop in crime at the University of Kansas to six…
ICE Arrests 20 “Criminal Aliens and Immigration Fugitives” in Metro KC, Media Mum
Federal officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arrested 20 “criminal aliens and immigration violators” on both sides of…
Teacher Trusted with Everything Will Quit If Trusted with a Gun
A teacher who refused to be named or go on air tells KCTV 5 News she’ll quit teaching if she’s…
Media Not Very Curious About Man Who Shot Woman On Plaza
A year ago, when a deranged drunken white man shot and killed an Indian man in Olathe thinking he was…
KCPD Do What Florida Police Won’t: Investigate Reports of Potential Mass Shooters
The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Chief is willing to do some of the work federal officers and their local counterparts…
KS Revenues Beat Expectations; State Budget Still Broken
The good news: Kansas revenues continued to beat projections in February. The bad news: Kansas budget is still out of…
Kansas Union Prez Calls New Koch-Funded School “Living Laboratory of Elitism”
Leave it to United Teachers of Wichita president Steve Wentz to put a frog in the punch bowl of the…
JoCo Boosts Big Box Appraisal 85% in Single Year, Retailers See Red
Dark Store Showdown: Executives Back Bus over JoCo Tax Assessments Johnson County is ground zero in “dark store theory” controversy, an ongoing legal…
Dark Store Showdown: Executives Back Bus over JoCo Tax Assessments
Dark Store Showdown: Executives Back Bus over JoCo Tax Assessments Johnson County is ground zero in “dark store theory” controversy, an ongoing legal…
Judge Thwarts Prosecutors, Sets May Trial Date for Greitens
For all the hell that Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has brought down on himself, it is hard not to see…
Trump 2020 Campaign Manager, Kansas Native Brad Parscale, Already Getting Death Threats
In 2015, when Donald Trump was exploring the idea of running for president, he hired Topeka native Brad Parscale to…
Hartman Offers Use of Namesake Arena for NRA Events
Wink Hartman is offering the National Rifle Association the use of Hartman Arena for future NRA events. He tweeted his…
OP-Based Lockton Affinity Caves to Anti-Gun Activists, Abandons the NRA
There is no longer a reason, one suspects, for the planned fly-over protest at the Overland Park headquarters of insurance…
Committee Forwards Convention of States Resolution to Kansas Senate
Tony Gillette, Shawnee, would like to see a bloodless revolution that returns the power of the federal government back to…
For New Shawnee Mission Super, Salary Is Sweet, Perks Are Sweeter
Parents who once urged their children to go to med school or law school may be redirecting them towards the…
Fitzgerald Urges His Opponents to Follow Hartman’s Example
State Sen. Steve Fitgerald is urging his Republican opponents to get out of the race for U.S. Congress. Fitzgerald is…
Huh? Manhattan Named “Most Boring” City in Kansas, 2nd “Most Livable” City in America
It has been a roller coaster of a month for those Manhattan town boosters who take seriously national publications that…
Shocker: Star Writes Honest Article On Syed Jamal’s Indifference to the Law
After literally scores of tear-jerking article from the Kansas City Star and the national media about the immigration authorities’ cruel…
Education Finance Researchers Brief KS Lawmakers on Their Efforts
Lori L. Taylor, a Texas A&M professor, is set to deliver an educational cost function analysis to state lawmakers on…
Colyer: Training, Arming Teachers Might Be Partial Solution
Gov. Jeff Colyer thinks arming teachers might be a good solution. He made the comments during an Axios 360 education…
KCMO Adopts Airbnb, Short-Term Rental Regulations
Council members in Kansas City, Missouri, voted to ban short-term rentals in certain residential areas and regulate them in other…