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Skip Governor Kelly – get tax relief via Constitutional Amendment

Double-digit increases in assessed valuations are being used by many local elected officials to sock taxpayers with unaffordable property tax...
By Dane Hicks
3 min
03Jun 2024
31May 2024

If it talks like a duck: Is Greg Orman at the root of fusion voting in United Kansas?

Recently Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab announced United Kansas met the requirements to be officially recognized as a new political party in...
By Dane Hicks
9 min
31May 2024

Guilty verdict of a former president proves his point about no justice

The woke are now running the country, and if you challenge that, you do so at your own peril. The...
By Earl Watt
4 min
30May 2024

Why should taxpayers have to pay for new stadiums?

The death of HB 2663 in Kansas, which aimed to create new Sales Tax and Revenue (STAR) Bonds and Tax Increment Financing...
By Dane Hicks
5 min
27May 2024

Reagan’s rules being ignored

Ask any Republican older than 50 who they most admire in their lifetime, and the answer will almost assuredly be...
By Earl Watt
4 min
23May 2024

Yes, I’m American, and I’m darned proud of it

I won’t apologize to anyone for being American. It seems with technology and poor education in civics classes, our younger...
By Earl Watt
5 min
21May 2024

Homelessness: Big cash in The New Covid

KCUR photo Winston Churchill is credited as coining the phrase “Never let a good crisis go to waste” and that...
By Dane Hicks
5 min
19May 2024

NFL coddles wife beaters & drunk drivers, but hammers faith, family & values

Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker was disavowed by the NFL for comments in a Benedictine College graduation speech exalting the beneft...
By Dane Hicks
4 min
17May 2024

Taxes choke off Kansas job growth, and politics prevents a solution

Kansas’s 2024 legislative session can be characterized as a constant back-and-forth between the Legislature and Governor Kelly on tax reform, with several...
By Dane Hicks
4 min
07May 2024