Opinion
Lee Judge's cartoons
Check out our collection of sharp political and cultural jabs by Kansas City Star cartoonist Lee Judge. Also, his cartoon archives:
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Yael T. Abouhalkah | When thugs declare open season on human beings
May 16, 3:36 PMI am Harry Stone. You are Harry Stone. Except for one major difference. You and I are alive today.Harry Stone is dead. The 60-year-old Raytown resident was jogging early Sunday morning when he was shot and killed near 67th Street and Blue Ridge Boulevard in Raytown.
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Yael T. Abouhalkah | Mayor James kills $500 million bond election this year
May 16, 11:58 AMIn a positive move, Mayor Sly James is telling City Council members and others this morning that he wont move ahead with a $500 million bond election this August.
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As I See It | The courage to become an artist
May 15, 6:30 PMWe live in a society that places a lot of importance on college majors like science and business, writes Nan McCarthy, whose son soon will graduate from the the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Not that we shouldnt place a high value on these areas of study but the emphasis on math and science comes at a cost.
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The Stars editorial | KC voters deserve clear choices on key tax plans
May 15, 6:08 PMIts too early to determine whether the tax plans being debated this week by the Kansas City Council will deserve voter approval later this year even conceding the fact that the city must invest much more money in rebuilding its crumbling infrastructure. Elected officials still must present clear, positive cases for what they want to do with the public funds.
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Yael T. Abouhalkah | UMKC chancellor lashes out after NCAA investigation
May 15, 4:15 PMLeo Morton, chancellor of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, didnt mince words Tuesday in attacking a former instructor for making public charges that the university had improperly changed the grade of a student-athlete.
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Barbara Shelly | Four legacies of Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley
May 15, 4:15 PMSteve Tilley wont go into the books as one of the great speakers of the Missouri House. After two years in that post, hell be remembered for: 1) Getting Rush Limbaugh added to the Hall of Famous Missourians
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Mary Sanchez | A big step in the struggle for equal marriage rights
May 15, 12:16 AMBarack Obama has finally come out. He has revealed what his critics and his supporters alike have long suspected: that hes no longer a closeted supporter of same-sex marriage. Its fitting that he has taken this step, as the first biracial U.S. president. No doubt, it resonates with his personal history.
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The Stars editorial | Name change for UMKC could be a game change
May 15, 5:37 PMAs names go, the University of Missouri-Kansas City doesnt exactly roll off the tongue. Its clunky, and the Kansas City part comes across as an afterthought. The University of Kansas City, on the other hand, has a nice, clean ring. It conveys a sense of place. And a sense of responsibility.
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Yael T. Abouhalkah | James' huge tax and bond plan keeps evolving
May 15, 11:03 AMThe huge tax and bond plan unveiled last week by Mayor Sly James continues to evolve this week. The work being done behind the scenes by James, City Council members, the city staff and a few others is aimed at keeping the sales tax and property tax increases on the ...
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The Star’s editorial | Boilermakers should cut leaders’ expenses during tough times
May 14, 6:49 PMMillions of union members throughout America are fighting hard to keep their jobs during these tough economic times.
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Yael T. Abouhalkah | Speaker Tilley embarrasses Rush Limbaugh
May 14, 4:19 PMIt's tough to defend Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley's embarrassing treatment of radio host Rush Limbaugh today at the state Capitol. Tilley refused to let the general public see Limbaugh be into the Hall of Famous Missourians. That was a slap in the face to Limbaugh.
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Yael T. Abouhalkah | Mayor James' tax/bond plan in big trouble
May 14, 11:28 AMThe tax and bond plan proposed last week by Mayor Sly James is in big trouble if it stays in the original form it was introduced.
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Lewis W. Diuguid | Feisty city neighborhood holds its own in core
May 13, 5:45 PMThe plan by the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and the United Way of Greater Kansas City for the new Urban Neighborhood Initiative wont have to start from scratch. There are a lot of good developments and people in the urban core. It just needs more people and resources to make it grow.
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The Stars editorial | Expand work visas for top foreign talent
May 13, 5:34 PMImmigration will someday fade as a hot-button dispute. For the present, however, its still a touchy topic for any politician which is why Sens. Jerry Moran and Mark Warner deserve credit for drafting a bill to ease the bottleneck. Whats a mystery is why more of their colleagues arent willing to sign onto a bill that will bring more technical and entrepreneurial talent to our country.
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Public Editor | Charge to vote in online contest was an error
May 13, 5:44 PMNewspaper companies arent as direct as they should be about one fundamental: They are private businesses. But theres also a built-in tension between the news and commerce sides of the business, and Im appreciative when readers point out instances where they think one side oversteps its bounds.
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E. Thomas McClanahan | The Life of Julia, or life without aspiration
May 12, 6:04 PMThe Obama campaigns Life of Julia website reveals much about its originators and the man on whose behalf it was created. Here we see the sterile vision of a certain kind of hard-left liberal, who apparently views the American citizen as a submissive, isolated entity.
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The Stars editorial | Dont settle for mediocrity on Watkins Drive
May 12, 5:32 PMThe high level of maintenance required to keep Bruce R. Watkins Drive looking sharp should not be allowed to slip in these tough economic times. The Kansas City area already has plenty of mediocre-looking roadways.
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Midwest Voices | Tell a success story to your child
May 12, 5:45 PMWhen I was teaching sociology courses in the 1990s, there were a few Jewish boys who were the top students in my class. Still, they wanted to be better than the best.
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The Star’s editorial | Missouri nuttiness leaks into Kansas
May 11, 7:33 PMThe Kansas Legislature has only two tasks it absolutely has to get done — pass a budget and a redistricting map. Neither was finished by the time the regular session ended Friday, so lawmakers will drag themselves back to Topeka on Monday for overtime.
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