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More daycare is not a deathbed aspiration

Does politics have room for a contrarian view on daycare? And I say politics, in general, because both Republicans and...
By Dan Thalmann
4 min
24Feb 2024

Some 128,000 Kansas voters MIA for a decade

A review of Kansas voter registrations shows nearly 50,000 potential Kansas voters who registered in 2012 or before have never...
By Earl Glynn – Watchdog Lab
5 min
24Feb 2024

American journalism: The spotlight illuminating…nothing

Toward the end of The Sound of Music, the von Trapp family singers are called on stage to accept first prize...
By Michael Ryan – The Heartlander
6 min
23Feb 2024

No more Kansas school trips to New York’s hellhole

Until some miracle happens and a modicum of sensibility and safety returns to the government and management of New York...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
5 min
22Feb 2024

Courts are supposed to be the guardians against biased claims

One of the key components of the American system is that we are all equal under the law. One of...
By Earl Watt
5 min
19Feb 2024

Sadly, this IS Kansas City

KCTV5 photo If not for the raw gravity of what had just happened a few hours before, one would have...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
5 min
15Feb 2024

Josh Hawley – how to let courts end the Republic

It would signal nothing less than the end of the American republic if the U.S. Supreme Court allows Colorado and...
By Michael Ryan – The Heartlander
2 min
14Feb 2024

PETA offers bland alternative to animal rides. Ours is tastier

Genesis 1:26-28 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
6 min
10Feb 2024

Deep-diving for truth in numbers in the JOCO election juggernaut

How Mass Mail-In Voting Changes Everything. "When the emphasis in elections shifts from turning out conventional in-person voters to chasing mail-in...
By Earl Glynn – Watchdog Lab
7 min
08Feb 2024

“Moderate” PACS drag Kelly, Biden baggage into 2024 election arena

Towing the baggage of Joe Biden's plummeting popularity and the fallout of her own Left-leaning judgments, will Kansas Governor Laura...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
4 min
02Feb 2024