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Party-switching judge nominees flipped, flopped during various U.S., Kansas political eras

With controversial decisions by the Kansas Supreme Court drawing increasing scrutiny in recent years and this week’s naming of three...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
6 min
13Jun 2025

AFP-Kansas issues statement on why current justice appointee system is broken

The folloiwng statement was released by Americans for Prosperity Kansas after Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly appointed her fourth Kansas Supreme...
By Earl Watt
2 min
11Jun 2025

Meet the companies paying to trans kids and hide it from their parents

It’s been a while since Americans could actually sit back and enjoy June. Now, instead of bumping into rainbows in every aisle...
By Suzanne Bowdey – The Washington Stand
7 min
10Jun 2025

Facebook rejects ad for KC area Holocaust exhibit as “too political”

Facebook has rejected as “political” a paid post promoting a Christian organization’s exhibit coming Sunday on how the Holocaust began....
By Michael Ryan – The Heartlander
4 min
08Jun 2025

KCK school moves to bi-lingual only, separate from English-only instruction

A neighborhood elementary school with a 112-year history will soon be bilingual-only, raising concerns about community impact and transparency, even...
By Adam Wittenberg – The Lion
8 min
03Jun 2025

Kansas tax collections beat expectations by 31.7 percent

Responsible Tax Relief and Reduced Spending Have Put Kansas in a Strong Economic Position Projections by the Kansas budget office...
By Earl Watt
1 min
03Jun 2025

Grant application for $1.9 billion Coffey County semiconductor plant denied by USDOC

BURLINGTON – Coffey County Commissioners will meet June 2nd with the primary driver of a proposed BETO Junction-area semiconductor chip...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
2 min
28May 2025

Davids shuns Big Beautiful Bill, conjuring income tax increases for Johnson County

By joining the House Democrat opposition to oppose "The Big Beautiful Bill" and the extension of 2017 Trump income tax...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
4 min
23May 2025

Era of antisemitism takes life of former Prairie Village woman, and the man who would have been her husband

A couple soon to be married – the woman a Johnson County, Kansas native – was gunned down Wednesday night...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
3 min
22May 2025

Maybe we should reconsider what we think makes a good elected leader

When I was in Leadership Liberal in 1999, Ivanhoe Love, Jr., led a session on leadership. During that session he...
By Earl Watt
5 min
22May 2025