Last call for Missouri's legislature ⁠28%

By Nomin Ujiyediin⁠0% Byron J. Love⁠0%

5/10/2026, 9:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service and Indoctrination, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 22.8% saturation with 28 hits. Analysis detected 78 faulty-reasoning hits from 123 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 38.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠28% (15,943 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 72.80% of the article peer group.

After passing a $51 billion budget, Missouri lawmakers return to Jefferson City for the final week of this year's session. 
Hear what's in and what's out of this year's funding package, and which big issues remain on the agenda in this final week. 
KCUR's Brian Ellison sat down with Rudi Keller of the Missouri Independent to talk about the final week of legislative session. 
Contact the show at news@kcur.org. 
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Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. 
It is produced by Byron Love and KCUR Studios, and edited by Gabe Rosenberg, Madeline Fox and Emily Younker. 
You can support Kansas City Today by becoming a KCUR member: kcur.org/donate. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 1.9%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%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: 22.8%Nomin Ujiyediin: 9.0%Columbia Missourian: 5.5%Framing Effect22.8%This article: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 1.4%Columbia Missourian: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%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: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 10.5%Columbia Missourian: 5.4%Negativity Bias0.0%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: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 1.9%Columbia Missourian: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%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: 0.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 5.8%Columbia Missourian: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%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: 18.7%Nomin Ujiyediin: 11.1%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Indoctrination18.7%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: 22.0%Nomin Ujiyediin: 15.5%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…22.0%

123 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers39%attributed speech75writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageKCUR's Brian Ellison • 21 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageKansas City Today • 8 words • 0.0% coverageKCUR Studios • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

KCUR's Brian Ellison

0%flagged-word coverage
21 attributed words44% of attributed speech73% writer coverage
0%20.0%40.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -36.0 ptsWriter: 36.0%KCUR's Brian Ellison: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-30.7 ptsWriter: 30.7%KCUR's Brian Ellison: 0.0%0.0%

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

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Analysis

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