Here's where KC's fiscal problems startBy Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Mayor Mark Funkhouser is among the chorus of complainers who think Kansas City doesn’t control its financial destiny.
Instead, a bloc of suburban business and chamber leaders supposedly holds tremendous sway at City Hall.
Sorry, but this contention is flat wrong.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
President Barack Obama was gracious in the opening minutes of his inauguration speech to President George W. Bush.
But that didn't last long.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
President Barack Obama today inherits a nation with a tanking stock market and growing job losses. The message from millions of hurting Americans to Obama and Congress is simple and direct: "It's the economy, stupid."
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Israel lost the worldwide public relations battle with its overwhelming recent attacks in Gaza. So the ceasefire reported Saturday is the logical next step in the embattled Middle East.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
As KC Mayor Mark Funkhouser's public credibility plummets, Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders's is rising.
Four examples:
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
The catch-phrase that gained popularity in Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign -- "It's the economy, stupid" -- ought to be stamped on the forehead of every elected official going back to Washington in 2009.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
The election is almost over: Barack Obama kept his huge lead among likely voters in Sunday's Gallup Poll, with a 51-43 percent margin over John McCain.
More bad news for McCain:
Obama is far ahead, at 52-41 percent, with all voters.
And still more:
Sarah Palin is doing exactly what she needs to do: she is proving that if given time to prepare, she can deliver her lines with perky exuberance. Right now she is in a no-lose situation and her disastrous interviews last week appear to be an almost brilliant strategic move. The public will subconsciously compare and contrast, and dismiss her Couric interview as an exception. She is performing more like the Sarah Palin from the 2006 gubernatorial debate, which is great news for McCain. Searching to define herself as both tough and folksy, Palin wants America to perceive her as a cross between Elastigirl from “The Incredibles” and Peggy Hill from “King of the Hill”. Incidentally, she looks like both. Coached or not, she is succeeding in not falling apart next to a very prepared Biden and that’s enough to win her a lot of points.
Leonard Zeskind, an internationally recognized expert in hate groups, recently posted his take on Kansas City's Minuteman controversy.
The piece does a good job at explaining much of the angst surrounding the Minutemen's message. Zeskind peers past the more banal "we're just opposed to illegal immigration" banter of the group to show how for many Minutemen, it is Hispanic's growing numbers, even those who are U.S.-born, who are of concern for the group. Zeskind's sources: Minutemen who gathered recently in Kansas City.
To read Zeskind's work, go to: http://tinyurl.com/2q32nv
—Mary Sanchez, editorial columnist
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