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Will KC look smart (or stupid) on smoking ban?

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

KC voters have a chance to polish the city's image on Tuesday by approving a tough, new smoke-free law.

Or, voters can turn it down, which would make the city look stupid throughout a nation that's going increasingly smoke-free in public businesses.

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Submitted by Yael T. Abouhalkah on April 7, 2008 - 8:52am.
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Funkhouser has guts: He'll talk to city employees Wednesday

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Mayor Mark Funkhouser will be on the hot seat Wednesday when he faces city workers worried about their future paychecks.

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Submitted by Yael T. Abouhalkah on April 7, 2008 - 9:51am.
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An editorial bag of coal for Kathleen Sebelius

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial board

See below for the Wall Street Journal editorial on Kathleen Sebelius and the coal-fired power plant.

Opinion is opinion, and we all love it, but there's a couple of things to take issue with here:

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Submitted by barbshelly on April 7, 2008 - 10:15am.
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Emanuel Cleaver's success at the pulpit

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial board

Emanuel Cleaver seemed so morose during his first term in Congress that I had him pegged for a short-timer.

His announcement that he's stepping down as senior pastor of St. James United Methodist Church indicates otherwise.

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Submitted by barbshelly on April 7, 2008 - 11:02am.
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Submitted by barbshelly on April 7, 2008 - 11:53am.
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Submitted by barbshelly on April 7, 2008 - 1:13pm.
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A warning for big-labor Dems

By E. Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

To court organized labor, Democrats have gone out on a limb in support of the mis-named Employee Free Choice Act, which would wipe out the secret ballot in union certification elections.

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Submitted by mcclanahan on April 7, 2008 - 4:13pm.
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The sorry tale of Mark Penn's demise

By E. Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Hillary Clinton recently threw out her chief strategist, Mark Penn, for the horrible crime of meeting with representatives of Columbia's government on the pending free-trade deal with that country.

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Submitted by mcclanahan on April 7, 2008 - 5:10pm.
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Obama's Audacity of Hope--Part 3 (Faith and Values)

Today's post is long. How do you separate faith and values?

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Submitted by Juanell_Garrett on April 7, 2008 - 7:32pm.
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