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By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Watch out: Some powerful egos on the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's Board of Trustees have been rubbed the wrong way.

By E. Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Strategypage provides a brief update: The coalition is decimating al-Qaida's top leadership, and uncovering more weapons and ammo supply dumps. The posting notes: "All this is good news, meaning it's not reported." Sad but true.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial board

Albert St. George of the editorial board's reader advisory panel raised a good point today: Here it is, Earth Day, and the presidential campaigns are all but silent on the subject of the environment and global warming.

Led by Gov. Matt Blunt, supporters of ethanol are using deceptive figures to promote its use by Missouri motorists.

Blunt and others are defending the unwarranted state law requiring that most gasoline sold in Missouri be blended with 10 percent ethanol.

The malicious creativity of Kansas and Missouri lawmakers is boundless when it comes to interfering with the right of women to obtain abortions.

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Monday appropriately vetoed a bill that proposed shocking intrusions into a woman’s privacy and authority to make her own medical decisions.

By Steve Winn, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Poor Jimmy Carter.

Such wonderful intentions. Such ghastly naiveté.

Watching the former president go to the Middle East in search of peace is like watching a sheep walk into the wolf’s lair intent on building greater animal solidarity.

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