http://www.kansascity.com/273/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2008 Kansas City Star Opinion 60 Fri, 16 May 2008 22:47:34 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys feedback@kansascity.com http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623628.html http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623628.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:56 CDT The final day of this year's dreary winter should have come as a relief. But while the day itself was fair, March 19 also marked the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. http://www.kansascity.com/618/story/623610.html http://www.kansascity.com/618/story/623610.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:56 CDT I was told to bring cookies to Irena Sendler. But that made no sense. This elderly woman in a Warsaw nursing home was a diabetic and couldn't eat them. http://www.kansascity.com/618/story/622087.html http://www.kansascity.com/618/story/622087.html Thu, 15 May 2008 22:06 CDT C.W. Gusewelle in his article “Farmers Shouldn't Reap Blame” (The Star, May 4), is quite correct when he says that countries like Zaire, Nigeria and Zimbabwe could have been rich if they had the right political leadership. http://www.kansascity.com/618/story/620380.html http://www.kansascity.com/618/story/620380.html Wed, 14 May 2008 21:41 CDT The attempt by Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann to control Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' political decisions on abortion should jolt the public back to this debate's central issue. http://www.kansascity.com/618/story/618667.html http://www.kansascity.com/618/story/618667.html Tue, 13 May 2008 20:06 CDT The Rev. Carla Aday of Country Club Christian Church writes about jazz pianist Eldar Djangirov, who as a child fled Krygystan for Kansas City and now is returning to the city to perform at a benefit for the people of Darfur. http://www.kansascity.com/618/story/616785.html http://www.kansascity.com/618/story/616785.html Mon, 12 May 2008 21:04 CDT Ray Smith, a retired health-care executive, writes that the Kansas City area should be proud that four area medical centers have been designated "magnet hospitals" for their ability to attract and retain professional nurses. http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623608.html http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623608.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:56 CDT The beauty of May is that the whole country is more or less on the same page, called Spring, and Spring is Spring, in Minnesota or California or Georgia or Vermont. http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623619.html http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623619.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:56 CDT Sure, Georgia retailers ought to think twice about putting sleazy-sounding products on their shelves, but the state Legislature went way too far when it criminalized the sale of marijuana-flavored candies. http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623618.html http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623618.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:56 CDT The term “gateway drug” is used to describe certain lower classed drugs that some believe can lead users to harder, more dangerous drugs. Marijuana, alcohol and cigarettes are all considered by some to be gateway drugs. http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623615.html http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623615.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:56 CDT From the Idaho Statesman , Boise There's a world of difference between the arrival of radioactive sand from Kuwait and the arrival of a uranium enrichment company from France. http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623621.html http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623621.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:56 CDT From The Guardian , London Snakes need friends and none more so than Britain's adders. They are not aggressive and have not killed anyone in Britain for more than two decades. But they lack the affection lavished on furry native animals such as foxes, badgers and red squirrels. http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623606.html http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623606.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:56 CDT You are Hillary Clinton. You knew ahead of the results that you were going to win the West Virginia Democratic Party primary by a large margin. You know you are likely to win Kentucky next week by a large margin. Two big wins, but not "game-changers" as the saying goes. Nothing that's going to alter the delegate math. Then, there's Oregon, held the same day as Kentucky. That's looking like rough seas. So when do you exit the race? Speculation surfaced that Clinton had... http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623613.html http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/623613.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:56 CDT W ASHINGTON | Lewis Carroll, call your office. Or, better still, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland should call Washington, where the government's determination to solve the housing “crisis” produced this lead paragraph in a recent New York Times story: “Federal agencies are intensifying a criminal investigation of the mortgage industry and focusing on whether some lenders turned a blind eye to inflated income figures provided by borrowers.”... http://www.kansascity.com/340/story/623607.html http://www.kansascity.com/340/story/623607.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:50 CDT The indictment of the Missouri woman whose Internet harassment of a teenager was allegedly a factor in the girl’s suicide should stand as a cautionary tale for cyberspace users. http://www.kansascity.com/340/story/623624.html http://www.kansascity.com/340/story/623624.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:50 CDT Missourians can be thankful their legislature has a mandatory adjournment. Friday’s 6 p.m. deadline brought a welcome end to an abysmal session.