U.S. Rep. Sam Graves was first elected to the Congress in 2000. He’s seeking re-election this year and has an overwhelming financial advantage on his challengers.
There’s a lot of talk in the restaurant industry about becoming more sustainable and less wasteful, but at Trezo Mare, a restaurant in the Briarcliff Village shopping center, they’ve been doing it for three years. The business is getting more attention for its efforts in a budding movement in Kansas City to turn the spotlight of sustainability onto the restaurant industry.
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A proposed state constitutional amendment would declare the right to bear arms, ammunition and accessories to be unalienable and would make restrictions on those rights subject to the highest level of judicial review.
Adam Johnson and his father, Will Johnson, also own the Mound City News in northwest Missouri. The new publisher of the Platte County Citizen once was the weekly’s student writer.
The Parkville Area Chamber of Commerce now uses the building, but only a small part of it. A meeting is planned July 29 for people to visit the depot and ask questions.
Kansas City has selected land for a new Northland police station, which would be the final piece of the city’s multimillion-dollar public safety improvement campaign.
“You kids know how when the Family Circus guy needs a break, ‘Billy’ draws his cartoon? We should do that,” I offered them over dinner. I needed a solid argument. Summer had been busy, far busier than I ever imagined. I was bone tired and weary but dug deep for something to convince them.
I’m in my 30th year of journalism, which, roughly speaking, is way too long. But I have produced more than 8,000 stories, 7,253 of which had to include the subject’s age or the year they graduated high school, sometimes both. A tenet of community newspapers is to keep things local, and nothing’s more local than knowing what year someone you’re writing about graduated from a school the reader also probably attended.
The April 13 shooting death of Terri LaManno rocked the community. The aftermath could have been much different had we not had the faithful support of the community.
