Regardless of where one is on the political spectrum, open government, open records and transparency are issues that everyone can agree on. When Tom Witt from the Kansas Equality Coalition asked me to speak in favor of transparency in judicial retention elections, I knew that was an issue I had no choice but to embrace.
As [...]

On Jan. 21 ProPublica predicted insolvency for Kansas’ unemployent insurance fund in the next six months.
Today ProPublica reported Kansas and Vermont are the latest states to be debtors with their unemployment reserves.

The Legislative division of Post Audit (LPA) notified the 2010 Commission earlier this week that it has closed the list for new school district efficiency audits. Ten districts have asked for voluntary audits after the 2010 Commission canceled audits in 2009 it requested in 2008.
The Derby and Ellinwood districts have already received audit reports that [...]

We identified 27 candidates in Kansas (some have dropped out)  for our 4 congressional districts and collected U.S. House Financial Disclosure statements for 19 so far. 
Find these reports on our Financial Disclosure page.  Look for the section, “U.S. House Candidates in 2010.”
We will continue looking for the rest of these reports as the Clerk of the U.S. [...]

A KansasWatchdog story on the February 19 meeting of Schools for Fair Funding (SFFF) has been updated to correct a misstatement regarding a bylaws change by the group.
John Robb, an attorney for SFFF, requested a correction stating that the bylaws already included a provision allowing no-notice meetings by the board of directors.
The SFFF bylaws state [...]

[Updated March 5].  A warrant is out in Wichita for the arrest of a mom who testified about her case at a legislative hearing last year.  The charges?   That she saw one of her children for 30 minutes, and tried to see the child a second time.
Last year we reported stories from parents and grandparents who [...]