By Tom Ryan, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel
How many titles can we confer upon this person? He is a doctor, still an officer, a major, an accused killer, a proud believer as we are learning. From what title do we begin to understand this person? Right now, along with those he wounded, he is a patient under professional care. That’s what he is today…a patient.
By Tom Ryan, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel
2010 is an election year. Obama’s financial sector reforms will concentrate upon areas where he can win votes. These reforms will come at us piecemeal, but here’s a possible package:
- Credit Cards
- Mortgages
- Executive Pay
- …and Over-the-Counter (OTC) Derivatives
By Tom Ryan, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel
It’s not as if we couldn’t afford the catering bill. The city of Pittsburgh and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would have loved the whole family there. Missing family members at a reunion is always awkward. That top 20 list is stupid.
By Tom Ryan, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel
I occurred to me this weekend, that with the G20 this week and all the build-up, to try and understand the “big idea” views of the Biggies…France, Russia, US, UK, China…China? Not a great deal of ink on China lately, except for the chicken feet story.
Dawn Meisenheimer Lewis, former Kansas City Star Midwest Voices panelist
I admit it, I read Drudge. He has a report today developing from a Russian analyst, Igor Panarin, stating the United States will break up into several different parts, and the slide of the economy is confirming his prediction.
