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Burke and James vault to the head of the mayoral class, thanks to the KC Star
Step aside, Deb Hermann. At least for now. The Star’s endorsement tonight of Mike Burke and Sly James in the Feb. 22 mayoral primary struck a blow to Hermann, who had rung up some key endorsements in...
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The Star stumbles; The Star shines; and Yael Abouhalkah dings Sly
Despite the blogs, the TV ads and the candidate forums, most frequent voters still rely on The Kansas City Star to help them sort out the issues and gauge the candidates in the mayor’s race. In recent...
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The E-tax: On the way out in St. Louis; looking for a permanent home in...
Very interesting, this E-tax situation. Not just the Kansas City situation but the combination of Kansas City and St. Louis. Quite a contrast, actually. In both cities, voters overwhelmingly approved...
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Sly James, Local 42 and the public interest
As many of you probably know, Local 42 of the International Association of Fire Fighters supported former Mayor Mark Funkhouser in his bid for re-election earlier this year. Within a day or two after...
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The JJ’s tragedy and those who failed to act in the face of imminent danger
The Kansas City Star assigned a team of four outstanding reporters to the JJ’s explosion story Wednesday, and they established facts that pointed fingers of blame at two companies, a city agency and...
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HELP WANTED: A clear city policy that dictates who is in charge of...
With the passage of several days and the surfacing of more information, the human error that led to the fatal explosion at JJ’s restaurant last week has become clear: For more than an hour, as gas...
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Any public official could have made a mistake in the handling of a crisis,...
Kansas City Mayor Sly James has been praised and criticized for his handling of the explosion at JJ’s. There is no doubt that he was assertive, but was he more concerned with appearing to be in charge...
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The Kansas City Fire Department will do gas after all (we thought that made...
At last, nearly a month after the JJ’s explosion, the Kansas City Fire Department has acknowledged the obvious: That it is responsible for dealing with natural gas leaks. Initially, after the Feb. 19...
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Slippin’ and slidin’ toward re-election with Sly James
Yael Abouhalkah had a very interesting column in yesterday’s Star, in which he touched on some of the biggest challenges facing Kansas City Mayor Sly James at the halfway point of his first term. First...
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“Soar into the future”
That’s it…the headline, I mean. That’s the slogan — christened here today on your favorite blog — for the bond-issue campaign (God willing) that will determine if Kansas City builds a new single...
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