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I recently dozed, oops, read, through Hillary Clinton's most recent bestseller, Living History. Anyone who thinks the senator got an $8 million advance for that book for any other reason besides being married to a former President hasn't read it.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial board

Let's hear it for the Kansas Legislature. It gets points for stamina, if nothing else.

How about the Senate, passing yet another coal plant bill as the "wrap-up" session ended its sixth day and members were limp with exhaustion. So what if the proposal probably isn't constitutional? (Violates a "bundling" prohibition.) Never let a little thing like that stand in the way of principle.

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial board

Hillary Clinton's supporters, and Clinton herself, were pretty clear Tuesday night that they're planning their "Hail Mary" play--trying to rig the Democratic party's rules committee and count the votes in the disputed Michigan and Florida primaries.

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Here's the latest on efforts to put a regional light-rail system on November's ballot: Raytown and Riverside mayors are behind it. (Drum roll) So what?

Deloitte & Touche USA is angling to be an exception. In response to higher turnover for women employees, the company launched a series of women's initiatives.

In the '90s, the company held a series of workshops on men and women as colleagues. The sessions helped erase some of the unease and misunderstandings between the sexes on the job. But they didn't stop there. The workplace today, they recognized, demanded a different career ladder, and so they now speak of a "career lattice."

Forget that endless wrangling about mass transit and sewer systems. There is Big News out of Kansas City City Hall.

From a news release:

City of Kansas City, Mo., proclaims May 9 "David Cook Day"

By Yael T. Abouhalkah, The Kansas City Star Editorial Board

There’s not a lot of love right now in the serve-and-volley game going on between the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and nearby neighborhoods.

Flash it bright enough and they will come? Kansas City will find out as the 18th and Vine jazz district receives a little bling, courtesy of the city’s Capital Improvements Management Office.

The Kansas Legislature bills itself as a fiscally responsible body, but you wouldn’t know it from the way lawmakers have handled this year’s so-called wrap-up session.

Keep in mind that the 40 senators and 125 House members each receive $183.80 daily for service and expenses while the Legislature is in session.