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Medicaid-boosted salaries put SEKMHC execs in top 1% of earners in Kansas, USA

Salaries paid to executives at the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center pushed those top leaders into the celebrated “1 percent”...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
4 min
08Dec 2025

George Soros’ tightens funding tap on Kansas Left as upheaval plagues Open Society Foundation

Left-leaning advocacy organizations active in Kansas elections and policy debates like Loud Light, Kansas Appleseed, and groups involved in multi-state...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
7 min
04Dec 2025

Accused Nemaha County priest killer competency hearing Thursday

SENECA – A competency hearing scheduled in Nemaha District Court for Thursday will determine the legal course from this point...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
3 min
30Nov 2025

Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center nabs more Medicaid dollars, boosts exec’s pay to nearly $900,000

The executive salaries at the Iola-based Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center which prompted the organization’s virtual defunding by the six...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
5 min
27Nov 2025

Emanual Cleaver: The unsocialist socialist

KANSAS CITY — Missouri Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II raised few eyebrows Friday when he cast a “nay” vote on a...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
5 min
23Nov 2025

How to attack Christianity: Atheists lead horde of leftists in weekend JOCO workshop

Shutterstock image In a state where 70 percent of its residents profess to be Christians, a weekend workshop in several...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
3 min
12Nov 2025

Davids votes against funding bill, now complains about U.S. Government shutdown

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After voting against the bill to keep the federal government open, Kansas 3rd District Congresswoman Sharice Davids...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
4 min
15Oct 2025

Cult of the tatoo: America’s inking plague?

The cult of the tattoo has spread across America like oil dripping on garage floors, impossible to scrub clean no...
By Ron Smith – Special to The Informer
7 min
10Oct 2025

KSC upholds Kansas law allowing workers to refuse Covid shot on religious grounds

People protest vaccine mandates in New York City in September 2021. (Pamela Drew/Flickr) TOPEKA – As a result of the...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
2 min
30Sep 2025

USDA pulls $10.4 million in Kansas SNAP funding after Kelly refuses data

TOPEKA – Continued denial by Governor Kelly to provide data on Kansas’ state-paid food assistance program for poor Kansans resulted...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
3 min
22Sep 2025