Scott Canon
Scott Canon is digital editor of the Kansas News Service, a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUW and High Plains Public Radio covering health, education and politics. He started working for KCUR in January 2018.
Canon spent most of his career as a newspaper reporter, working in Illinois and California before landing in the newsroom of The Kansas City Star. At The Star, he covered mostly regional and national stories. As an editor at the newspaper, he oversaw political coverage. He also fielded a handful of overseas assignments to both very hot and very cold places.
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This time, it was in public Triveece Penelton has endured any number of racist remarks in her 16 years as a city planner. It was the one delivered in a...
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Reduced to dollars Jayla Haag was just an 18-month-old girl when she died from abuse while living in a meth house in El Dorado. On Monday, a panel of...
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Moved how many times? One boy. In the care of the state since 2012. Shifted from one foster placement to the next. One hundred thirty times. A lawsuit...
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Sticker shock Kansas turned to the nonprofit group Teach For America earlier this year and cut a deal: Find a dozen teachers willing to work in the...
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More beds or more services Legislators heard Wednesday that Kansas either needs to improve a range of services for the mentally ill or to be prepared to...
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Regulate us, please In 2013, a coalition of school districts formed. They’d be laboratories for new ideas. If they could show the state they were...
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Aging out into problems A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation looking at what happens to older children in foster care shows Kansas roughly...
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Revving up revenues Remember the tax cuts engineered by then-Gov. Sam Brownback? And recall how those tax cuts were followed, month after month and year...
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Worse in Kansas The foster care load in Kansas is growing faster than the rest of the country. Madeline Fox analyzed fresh national numbers on trends in...
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Goodbye, Jeff. Hello, Kris? I hated that he ran, because I would have loved to have brought him into my administration. In fact, if he loses, I’ll bring...