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    Steve Penn

    Steve Penn: Cauthen is focused on the city, not his contract

    He’s moving on, concentrating on the important assignments that collectively move the city of Kansas City forward. Now it’s time for the forces against Wayne Cauthen at City Hall to do the same.

    COMMUNITY FACES


    This smiling couple turned out as the Dot Gallery played host for four artists and a band for May's First Friday at the Crossroads. More photos from this and other events in the Kansas City area can be found at Community Faces, our online scrapbook of people having fun. Watch for our photographers around town, and you might see your face here.

    Good Connections

    Volunteer at the KC Chalk & Walk Festival

    Who needs my help? Kansas City Chalk & Walk Festival When am I needed? June 14 and 15 on 22nd Street between Wyandotte and Avenida Cesar E. Chavez.

    Mike Hendricks

    Hendricks: A common-sense approach to light rail

    Enough already with the pie-in-the-sky. Focus on the starter line, and work out a regionwide system later. That’s my light-rail plan, and I’m sticking to it.

    C.W. Gusewelle

    In talk of fuel and famine, farmer shouldn’t be fall guy

    Sometimes it is necessary to express an unpopular, unfashionable and undiplomatic view — one that, while it may provoke discomfort, happens to be grounded in fact. And that is the case with the discussion linking the prospect of world famine to the increasing importance of biofuels.

    Steve Kraske

    Danforth empathizes with Bush and even Obama

    When Jack Danforth speaks, people listen. As a former senator, a former U.N. ambassador and an Episcopal priest, he’s been around.

    KOREA JOURNAL


    Senior editor Randy Smith last fall was part of group of international journalists who traveled to South Korea and North Korea to study culture and politics.


    News Quiz | Test your knowledge of current events

    • Sewer plan sparks ‘green’ concerns

      - 11:30 PM CDT

      Can the public trust Kansas City leaders to implement green solutions such as green roofs and rain gardens into the overhaul of the city’s massive sewer system?

    Payday: What do area public employees make?

    A database analysis of 140,000 area public employees’ salaries, compiled for the first time by The Kansas City Star, is being made available today on KansasCity.com. Info Central also includes other databases and documents, from the most popular area pet names to university coaches’ contracts.

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    MAKING THE GRADE: KC AREA SCHOOL SCORES

    By district and school, both public and private: Results of state testing mandated by federal law, including demographic information, profiles and more.

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