On Tuesday, North Kansas City residents will elect a mayor. There are many facets to a mayor’s job, ranging from financial recommendations to managing city policies and employees to communicating openly and honestly with the citizens.
Where’s spring? I miss global warming.
I attended the second- and third-round games of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at the Sprint Center during the weekend.
After Jesus asked the apostles, “Whom do you say that I am?” he promised St. Peter that the gates of hell would not prevail against the church. The Catholic Church continues to teach Christian doctrine, morality and will until the end of time.
On April 2, Kansas City voters should vote yes on Question 1 to ensure critical funding for Kansas City’s safety-net health-care providers.
Because I am a young adult in Kansas City, some might see my opinion on gun control as inexperienced and somewhat unimportant. However, I am part of a family of hunters and have been around guns all of my life.
Poverty should never be the goal of a government tax structure. Yet our income tax is designed to keep working people poor.
Some say that we cannot know other people’s pain or the degree to which they suffer. For those who have been abused as children, the memories can last a lifetime.
It is interesting to see on national television that Kansas City also has some unattractive residents and faces some unbecoming public behavior, which are commonly attributed to us on the other side of the state by those from the western part of the state.
Our Missouri General Assembly has a full plate of important issues. How to operate state government for free seems to be a major objective. Kansas officials have decided that cutting all business and some individual tax is the road to prosperity. Our own Republican hole-in-the-wall gang professes we must follow suit.
According to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website, the following occurred in Lathrop after the four-day schedule started in 2010:
Is it just me or has anyone else recognized that when politicians use the word “comprehensive,” nothing seems to get done? Immigration, taxes and social programs are just a few areas.
The International Astronomical Union a few years back did a number on our little Pluto to get it thrown out as a planet, so we have only eight instead of our used-to-be nine planets.
Last fall, hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide began the basketball season with the goal of “Goin’ to Kansas City.” This week, 32 of those teams arrived to fight it out for the NAIA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship in the longest-running college basketball tournament in the country.
Funding for early childhood programs is a much-needed investment in the future of Missouri’s workforce.
The YMCA’s decision about which locations are closing is blatantly unfair. There are 15 YMCA facilities within the Kansas City area, yet two of the three branches to close are on the east side.
Today, all three of my children are college graduates. I work a secular job that allows me to be among the lower middle class, and I pastor a small church that I founded six years ago with my wife, where we assist other needy people.
The public transportation system we have here in Kansas City is one of the worst in the country. It is nearly impossible to get anywhere in the city without a car.
I was in a post office recently on a Monday to purchase stamps and witnessed several people shipping packages. Each time, the U.S. Postal Service clerk offered only “Express delivery tomorrow by 3 p.m. or priority delivery for expected delivery on Wednesday.”
Energy mandates wrong
Kansas City’s public sidewalk snow removal policy makes sense. But it also must create problems for those who are physically unable to do the clearing themselves and/or live on a limited income.
Here we go. In Kansas we have almost eliminated the moderates who kept the Legislature from implementing everything desired by Gov. Sam Brownback. Now some media report that “Kansas Republican legislators want to change the state Constitution to fend off a court ruling that orders the Legislature to increase its educational funding.”
Many are reeling from the announced closing of St. Paul School of Theology at Truman Road and Van Brunt Boulevard.
The residents of Kansas City are required to shovel the snow from their sidewalks or perhaps get fined by the city government. At first this seems like a good idea. After all, the sidewalks should be cleared. But whose sidewalks are they?
Although Congress now participates in Social Security and Medicare, more than half the members are millionaires. They automatically receive cost-of-living adjustments unless they vote not to take it.
