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By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

KU's Bill Self deserves a raise for coaching the Jayhawks to the NCAA title. But the school should not go overboard to keep him.

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

So now what on smoking in KC? Given the close but excellent victory for a smoke-free law Tuesday night, here are some options:

1. The pro-smoking small bar owners circulate a petition asking to overturn Tuesday's results.

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

What a sad day in America: Protesters ruined the passage of the Olympic torch Wednesday in San Francisco. Now some people are pleading with President George Bush to boycott the Olympic Games. No, he should go to China.

Jonathan Bender, Midwest Voices Columnist 2008

With the rise of foreclosures, suburban ghost towns are becoming more popular than Silver Dollar City in Branson, Mo.

By Ross Balano, Midwest Voices Columnist 2008.

At least one local TV news program ran a story about a possible challenge to the just approved smoking ban. I say that is a bad idea.

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Bruce Katz is the director of the Metropolitan Policy program at the Brookings Institution.

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Denise Tiller, Midwest Voices Columnist 2008

I'm having a hard time understanding why we need $62 million, five-mile stretch of road in southern Johnson County that goes nowhere. The "South Metro Connector" only connects to Holmes Road, and I just don't see the point.

Failures by airlines and the Bush administration have inconvenienced and stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers, including many in the Kansas City area.

How can the Federal Aviation Administration and the airlines improve service? Leave your comments here.

China’s typical response to criticism at home is to douse the message and rough up the messenger.

Those methods don’t work in Democratic nations. Chinese leaders have no way of quelling the dissent that has accompanied the Olympic torch’s raucous warm-up lap around the world.

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Bill Self will get millions of extra dollars for staying at KU, as he announced Thursday. But what about the players like Mario Chalmers who put Self in the position to get a huge raise?