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The good, the bad and the ugly of Governor Kelly’s 2024 Kansas budget
Last week, Governor Laura Kelly kicked off this year’s legislative session by releasing her FY 2025 Budget Report. Inside are her...
16Jan 2024

AFP-KS Releases New Poll Finding the Majority of Kansans Want Budget Surplus Returned to Taxpayers
AFP Found Nearly 60% of Kansans Across the State Want a Simple, Single-Rate Tax Topeka, KS—Today, Americans for Prosperity-Kansas (AFP-KS) released new polling...
16Jan 2024

AFP-Kansas Responds to State of the State Address, Outlines Bold Legislative Agenda
Topeka, KS – Americans for Prosperity-Kansas (AFP-KS) issued a statement in response to Governor Kelly’s State of the State address urging...
11Jan 2024

LaTurner asks for probe of CHICOM company locating near Fort Leavenworth
The Chinese Communist Party will stop at nothing to infiltrate American supply chains and gain insight into our most critical...
09Jan 2024

Saving KU’s bacon from NCAA violations cost $10 million
$10 million over six years. That’s how much Kansas Athletics paid to defend the University of Kansas men’s basketball program...
07Jan 2024

Tax relief? Kansas’ 2 percent food sales tax reduction is a drop in the bucket
TOPEKA – While the State of Kansas sits on its biggest pot of tax-generated spare cash in state history –...
07Jan 2024

Kansas officers seize two pounds of meth, more than 2,000 pills presumed as fentanyl
MEADE COUNTY – State law officers made a dent in the Kansas illegal drug trade Wednesday with arrests that yielded two pounds...
04Jan 2024

More than half of Kansas business leaders say workforce is “unsatisfactory”
A year-end poll of 300 Kansas business leaders finds tax cuts, making the state’s economy more competitive, and workforce development at the...
04Jan 2024

Squelched by The Star – we love different opinions, as long as they’re ours
When Colleen Nelson was the editorial manager for the Kansas City Star, she made sure that alternate views (i.e., not agreeing...
02Jan 2024

The staggering national impact of illegal immigrant welfare expense
Happy New Year Ah, election years – where an opposing party suddenly agrees with the other party to gain votes....
01Jan 2024