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    Steve Penn

    Steve Penn: Radio station’s programming change a sad refrain for jazz, blues fans

    A recent programming change by Kansas City’s community radio station is being called a business decision, but it represents yet another setback for the local jazz and blues scene.

    COMMUNITY FACES


    This smiling couple turned out Saturday for the third annual "Human Family Reunion," Wyandotte County Ethnic Festival, at Kansas City Kansas Community College. 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

    Pedal-type propulsion preferred

    Around 7:30 Tuesday morning I hopped on the red road bike to partake in what used to be known as Bike to Work Week.

    C.W. Gusewelle

    Vixen exhibits the wisdom and wonder of mothering in the wild

    Any devoted momma’s first thought is for her kids. Or, in this case, her kits. Evidently that gray fox vixen, who last year bore her litter of five in the crawl space under my cabin at the edge of the Ozarks woods, knew a good place when she found it.

    Steve Kraske

    Washington Post’s appraisal of Sebelius as veep candidate seems off target

    Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty were in town Tuesday. So what? Here’s what: The Washington Post just rated them the most likely Democratic and Republican vice presidential running mates.

    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.


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    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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