A Star editor's dispatches
Sewer plan sparks ‘green’ concerns
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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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
When Jack Danforth speaks, people listen. As a former senator, a former U.N. ambassador and an Episcopal priest, he’s been around.
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?
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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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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