What the Kansas Legislature did  and didn't do  this session 13%

By Nomin Ujiyediin0% Byron J. Love0%

4/21/2026, 9:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Framing Effect, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 33.1% saturation with 41 hits. Analysis detected 162 faulty-reasoning hits from 124 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 29.8% and a BS Rank of 13% (19,061 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 87.10% of the article peer group.

Property taxes dominated the conversation in this year's Kansas legislative session  but infighting mean that lawmakers left without delivering any of their promised reforms. 
However, the GOP-dominated legislature managed to pass some big bills, sometimes over the veto of Gov. 
Laura Kelly. 
Nomin Ujiyediin spoke with Kansas Public Radio's Statehouse Bureau Chief, Zach Boblitt, about the session. 
Contact the show at news@kcur.org. 
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Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 12.9%Nomin Ujiyediin: 1.9%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Confirmation Bias12.9%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 2.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 20.2%Nomin Ujiyediin: 9.0%Columbia Missourian: 5.5%Framing Effect20.2%This article: 9.7%Nomin Ujiyediin: 1.4%Columbia Missourian: 1.0%Loss Aversion9.7%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 4.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.6%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 33.1%Nomin Ujiyediin: 10.5%Columbia Missourian: 5.4%Negativity Bias33.1%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 2.4%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.9%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 2.9%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 12.9%Nomin Ujiyediin: 1.9%Columbia Missourian: 1.1%False Dilemma12.9%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 3.6%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 5.2%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 20.2%Nomin Ujiyediin: 5.8%Columbia Missourian: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)20.2%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 2.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 2.9%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 11.1%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 21.8%Nomin Ujiyediin: 15.5%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…21.8%

124 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers22%attributed speech97writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageLaura Kelly • 2 words • 0.0% coverageNomin Ujiyediin • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageKCUR • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

KCUR

100%flagged-word coverage
10 attributed words37% of attributed speech60% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +82.5 ptsWriter: 17.5%KCUR: 100.0%100.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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