We agree with this letter to the editor. The Kansas Policy Institute should be free to pay to publish whatever it wants (and with its Koch backing, it can afford a lot), but we continue to question why the Star repeatedly allows it to spread its agenda through guest commentaries. Thank you for sending in a letter to the editor, Mr. Migliazzo.

WHO’S BEHIND IT

“It was no surprise to see Dave Trabert’s June 20 guest commentary, ‘Kansans are being set up for another tax hike,’ railing against the proper funding of our public schools. (11A) The Star, however, should question its policy on which columnists deserve significant space and prominent display in the opinion section.

“Ideas across the political spectrum should be expressed. But when an organization such as Trabert’s Kansas Policy Institute lobbies for lower taxes for its wealthy donors, then it’s incumbent on The Star to insist on transparency about the funding source of that group — be it liberal or conservative — when it uses the newspaper as a sounding board.

“This is not the case with the Kansas Policy Institute. Nowhere on its website is this information available. As such, Trabert’s message deserves no more status than the rest of us mere mortals, who are limited to 200 words in the letters to the editor.

Alex Migliazzo
Leawood”

Read it in the Star: https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article232095072.html?fbclid=IwAR1q_ba8PzvAnZowUUP-oVqe-rLSGlyBwEMqafq79c5MmUitUElgb8Axpr0

Originally posted to Facebook: 7/7/2019.