One reason school superintendents say they can’t support Mayor Sly James’ pre-K tax plan is that it would spend public dollars on parochial and other private schools. But this isn’t a traditional voucher program.
There’s no “intensity” between Mayor Sly James and Kansas City Public Schools Superintendent Mark Bedell over the mayor’s pre-K plan, James says. He wants a sales tax increase to pay for his proposal.
It’s right that America should mourn the passing of George Herbert Walker Bush, who called each of us to work for the common good, “like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.”
When TMZ, which just showed the world what Kareem Hunt did in a Cleveland hotel 10 months ago, is the major watchdog on player violence against women, what does that tell you about how seriously we take it?
All Nations owed it to John Allen Chau, the 26-year-old missionary killed by tribesman on an isolated Indian island, to challenge rather than support a plan that was not just high-risk, but doomed from the start.
Nancy Pelosi has fought so hard to retake control of the U.S. House of Representatives for Democrats. In the year of the woman, she deserves to be speaker of the House — and not because of her gender.
Tabitha Birdsong moved out, hid out, obtained protective orders and reported her estranged husband, Gene Birdsong, to police. Now that she’s dead, the right question is not what more she could have done.
We were promised that the church’s “summer of shame,” following only the latest revelations about the systemic cover-ups of clerical sex abuse, would finally be addressed this week in Baltimore.
Kansas voters said “no way” to Kris Kobach’s nativism and obsession with mostly imaginary voter fraud. Yet they also chose someone to succeed him as secretary of state who said he’d continue Kobach’s legacy.
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri speaks to voters in Harrisonville on Nov. 5. He says the nation's strong economy and decreases in regulation over the past two years would not have happened if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency in 2016.
Republican Sen. Roy Blunt said Monday that the economy will decide the essentially tied U.S. Senate race in Missouri between Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill and Republican challenger Josh Hawley.
Sharice Davids, Democratic candidate in Kansas’ 3rd District, told The Star’s editorial board her commitment to protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions separates her from her opponent, Rep. Kevin Yoder.
In the final debate for Missouri’s U.S. Senate race, Josh Hawley said only Democrats are fomenting violence and made no mention of the bombs sent to at least 14 of President Donald Trump’s critics.
Lynn Schmidt, a Republican National Convention delegate, discusses her impressions of Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley after his debate Thursday with Sen. Claire McCaskill.
Missouri Republican Senate nominee Josh Hawley’s attacks on Sen. Claire McCaskill at Thursday’s debate in St. Louis were so nonstop that she gave up on answering all of them. If she had, we’d still be there.
Both Sen. Claire McCaskill and Republican Josh Hawley have gotten emotional about what they view as attacks on their families, as Hawley’s son and McCaskill’s husband have become part of the political debate.
City Councilman Jermaine Reed and City Manager Troy Schulte should know tax revenue for East Side development can’t be used for 18th & Vine without consulting the board set up to decide how the money is spent.
In a handwritten letter given to Melinda Henneberger, Jackline Budu writes: "Noeleen is the daughter to childless elderly people and a mother to the motherless children, a friend to the loneliest people and a faithful woman."
On paper, South Sudan’s civil war is over, but refugees still don’t feel they can return. This conflict has driven millions from their homes to seek sanctuary in churchyards and refugee camps. Will we let them die there?
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri speaks to voters in Harrisonville on Nov. 5. He says the nation's strong economy and decreases in regulation over the past two years would not have happened if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency in 2016.
