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By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

Calling all males: If you've seen "Sex and the City" the TV show, you won't want to see "Sex and the City" the movie. It sounds like the same, inane plot:

By Debra Sapp-Yarwood, Midwest Voices Panelist 2008

I have not read the book yet, I am commenting on Scott McClellan's appearance this morning on the NBC Today Show.

I'll reveal to you that as a Democrat, I for the first time finally could answer "what was the man thinking?" And by "the man," I mean W. Suddenly, I wasn't angry or defensive or outraged, as I was before. I was sad.

By E. Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
We don't hear enough of this sort of thing.
The alleged mass murderer had already killed two victims & had injured two others with gunshot wounds, but while he was reloading he was shot & killed by an armed CCW permit holder who was also at the bar.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

Now comes word that U.S. Airways will stop handing out free snacks to coach passengers.

Say it isn't so!

It's not like anybody is going to starve for want of the five or six mini pretzels included in those packets.

By Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

...or so argues a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.

By Steven O'Hern, Reader Advisory Panel 2008

Missouri and its citizens would benefit greatly from a Free Trade Agreement recently negotiated between the United States and South Korea. That was the message delivered yesterday by Tae-Sik Lee, the Republic of Korea ambassador to the United States, who spoke to the International Relations Council of Kansas City.

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

Tired of hearing Kansas City's SUV and light-truck drivers whine about $3.80-a-gallon gasoline? Go to Europe, where the costs for fuel are far higher.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

Sometimes the best news to come out of state legislatures is what they leave undone.

That was certainly the case this year in Missouri, where a fed-up state Senate said “enough” to the anti-abortion groups that annually give lawmakers their marching orders.

Today Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser is scheduled to present his vision for regional transit, including light rail, to several dozen area elected officials.

He has said that if this body rejects his insistence on a regional approach, then he will support a starter light-rail line for Kansas City.

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’s profile is rising in national political circles.

That visibility makes her a larger target for groups that zero in on abortion with laser-like focus.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

The Kansas City School Board already has cast a shadow over the prospects for successful K-8 schools.

It's a good concept; many Catholic schools successfuly combine elementary and middle school grades in the same building.

By Ross Balano, Midwest Voices Columnist 2008

Governor Sebelius does support legal abortion. What bothers me is that she might be supporting, or at least turning a blind eye toward illegal abortion.