What do you first remember from the Clinton Administration? OK, get your mind out of the gutter. I'm talking chronologically.
Remember the first days when they were trying to pass health care reform? The First Lady was the head of the task force. A month into what was to be a 100-day effort to pass health care reform, the task force was sued by groups associated with health care.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
It's time to start using the "R" word with Missouri's immature governor, Matt Blunt. Yes, he may need to resign for the good of the state.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
This nation's massive and inefficient investment in ethanol has pleased Midwestern corn growers -- and fleeced U.S. taxpayers. It's time for Congress to end this madness.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
Call it a fight for the ages: Mayor Mark Funkhouser is now racing activist Clay Chastain to see who can propose a regional light-rail plan for the public to kill this November.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial board
Matt Blunt shrugged off the adults in the Missouri Republican Party and surrounded himself with people like himself--young, inexperienced and ideological.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
The Royals baseball team has been a huge embarassment for Kansas Citians since the mid-1990s. But are the Royals really one of the 10 worst franchises in U.S. sports? Yeah, probably.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
A vendor that markets reading software to schools has announced the results of a survey billed as the most comprehensive report ever about what school children are reading.
International aid has begun arriving in Myanmar, but the country’s military junta has inexcusably stalled the entry of aid workers and needed supplies. The United Nations and neighboring countries should press hard for greater access and faster visa processing.
Let’s look at what Kansas lawmakers stuffed into their legislative stocking before wrapping up the 2008 session this week. Caution: It’s not a pretty picture.
What’s missing:
-- Progress on health care. The Legislature not only ignored bold proposals like a statewide smoking ban and a tobacco user fee to fund expanded access to medical care, it backpedaled on a pledge made last year to help more low-income families afford insurance.
