Research conducted by the Kansas Policy Institute (KPI), the owner of The Sentinel, shows that nearly 9 out of 10 decisions on property tax appeals decided by the […]
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Why we should all love data centers
Across Kansas and the rural Midwest, a strange resistance has begun to take shape among some conservatives who should know better: opposition to data centers. […]
Getting high in Douglas County: Property tax hikes dwarf population, inflation by 470%
Citing property taxes in Douglas County are up more than 500% in the last 25 years, nearly five times as much as the combined increases […]
Farmland values see consistent gains in Kansas
Increases in values for various categories of farmland as an average in the state topped 60 percent in some divisions, according to USDA data for […]
Kansas schools build non-teaching staff, payrolls while enrollment, student performance decline
The hiring of non-teachers (administrators and all other employees who are not teachers) has continued an upward trend in Kansas for the past decade in […]
Kansas: Highest rural commercial building property taxes in the U.S.
Over the last several years Kansas has remained uncompetitive when it comes to property taxes. In some cases, the state even has some of the highest property […]
Make Kansas towns more livable by limiting spending, limiting property tax growth
Over August and September, taxpayers across the state showed up to revenue-neutral hearings frustrated about tax increases. The statewide average property tax increase from 2022 into 2023 […]