By Juanell Garrett, Midwest Voices Panelist 2008
The Clinton years were a hodgepodge of scandals--Whitewater, Rose Firm billing records, huge cattle future profits (we all should be so lucky as to make 9900% on our money in less than a year!), and the more salacious ones involving women.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
Home builders might have to pay $5,100 extra to construct a house in KC, under a plan being reviewed by a citizens task force. Good idea, bad timing.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial board
Interesting that GOP House leaders and the White House are objecting to Barney Frank's mortgage relief bill because it might reward speculators and irresponsible borrowers.
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By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver has told Mayor Mark Funkhouser to use green solutions to fix KC's sewer mess. Thanks for the advice, congressman. Now, where's the money to do that?
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial board
Cindy McCain gets points for quietly doing good charitable work and for being outraged about Myanmar. (See details.
In Niger the chance of survival for children and their mothers is often bleak. One child in four never sees a fifth birthday.
Only about a third of mothers in the west-central African country have trained medical assistance when they deliver babies. Lack of such assistance adds to the risk of death for mothers and children.
Lebanon has long struggled to recover from its disastrous civil war. Now there are signs that the country may be heading for a repeat, one that would erase all of the gains of the past two decades and once again make “Beirut” a global synonym for violent chaos.
