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By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Mayor Mark Funkhouser has made progress in working with black leaders for a better KC. It's an encouraging but not yet complete comeback for Funkhouser.

What are your worst horror stories with the IRS or Tax Day, April 15?

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By E. Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Barack Obama's remarks about "bitter" people in small towns clinging to guns & religion may turn out to be one of those pratfalls that permanently undermines a campaign.

By Laura Scott, The Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Is Barack Obama waffling in his position on abortion, considered to be pro-choice?

Is he trying to appeal to those who believe life begins at conception, and abortion at any stage of pregnancy is the taking of a life?

By Ross Balano, Midwest Voices Columnist 2008

Where does Senator Barack Obama get off saying that so many of us are bitter and that’s why we cling to God and guns? How elitist and condescending of him. How wrong he is!

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial board

Students at Chillicothe High School did a marvelous job this weekend presenting the life of Erika Mandler, a Holocaust survivor and, as far as anyone knows, Chillicothe's sole Jewish resident.

The country’s annual exercise in confusion and aggravation officially ends today, the income tax filing deadline.

But taxpayers should continue to complain — loudly — about the ludicrous complexity of state and federal tax laws.

By Roger Merryfield, Midwest Voices Panelist 2008

Republicans, much like a sports franchise with an aging roster, need to let go of the unrealistic hope that they’re just "one or two players away" from winning.

Riots in Haiti and elsewhere portend worse to come if the world does not deal effectively with rapid increases in the cost of food. Already the impact on the poorest regions is staggering.

In many countries, 70 to 80 percent of a family’s budget goes to purchase food. Children and others face malnutrition and even starvation.

By Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Let’s agree to quit walloping the free trade piñata. Really, this is bordering on ridiculous.

Many Americans — those in the middle and on the lower end of the economic spectrum — are feeling vulnerable right now.