By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
So exactly how can a cash-strapped city afford a $300 million hotel? That's a good question, one that the Kansas City Convention and Visitors Association hopes no one asks too loudly. But let's do it.
By E. Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
An important win for President Bush's missile-defense program:
The NATO summit is backing a plan to build a missile-defense system for Europe.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
By many accounts, Curt Diebel runs a nice tobacco shop on the Country Club Plaza. But he sure isn't a medical expert, judging by his comments in today's Kansas City Star.
By Ross Balano, Midwest Voices Columnist 2008
With emotions so high on both sides of the smoking debate, it would seem that the existing law imposed by the City Council is a good compromise.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
The Johnson County Commission got in bed with District Attorney Phill Kline back in December. Now, the commissioners will have to live with their mistake.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
Erika Mandler settled herself into an auditorium seat, fixed her attention on the stage and watched a high school girl flit about in a red skating dress.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial board
Clay Chastain was holding forth on the radio today about the importance of preserving "our (local) tax dollars" for really important uses, like light rail service.
By E. Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
Most media portrayals played the fighting as a loss for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Certainly, the clash didn't settle anything for the long-term.
Tuesday’s election for the Kansas City school board has only one contested race for voters to decide and only through write-in candidates.
This lack of initial interest in drawing the city’s best and brightest to the board is a sad reminder of the apathy that has undermined the district for too long.
For many Americans, time stopped on April 4, 1968.
On that day, 40 years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. For most of his adult life, he had been the most prominent black man in America. For daring to challenge the country’s segregationist practices, in both the North and South, he was cheered and jeered, revered and reviled.
