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    COMMUNITY FACES


    This smiling couple cooled off on a warm summer day at the Gladstone pool. 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.

    C.W. Gusewelle

    Wall Street’s day-to-day sways don’t start with investors

    I’m repeatedly dismayed by the imprecision of language commonly used in financial reporting to explain the unpredictable, outlandish and sometimes utterly capricious behavior of the stock market.

    Mike Hendricks

    Pastor works to turn around 27th and Prospect

    We were talking, the Rev. John Modest Miles and I, about what passed for everyday occurrences at 27th Street and Prospect Avenue when he first visited the corner 20 years ago.

    Steve Penn

    Steve Penn: Street obstacle course could soon be clear

    This will come as welcome news to anyone who lives or does business along Troost Avenue and who has been inconvenienced by the street closing at 85th Street.

    Good Connections

    Good Connections: Care program provides friends and fun

    Keith Leake started taking his son, Alan, to Valley View United Methodist Church’s evening care program 29 years ago.

    Steve Kraske

    ON POLITICS

    Democrats have a stacked deck this year

    Democrats have said it for months: If this country is ever going to elect a black president, this is the year to do it.

    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

    MILITARY OFFICERS' BLOG
    Officers in a class project at Fort Leavenworth are blogging about military life and hoping to interact with readers. Click here for more


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