The violent attacks on the U.S. missions in Cairo, Egypt, and Benghazi, Libya — where a top U.S. diplomat was killed — are far too important to be reduced to fodder in a...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Fortunately, not everything is up to date in Kansas City. Esther George, president of the regional Federal Reserve Bank here, is refreshingly retrogra...
So now Mitt Romney actually likes parts of President Obama’s signature health care overhaul — the same “Obamacare” that Romney and congressional Republicans have vowed t...
The Moniteau School Board’s lesson from the player-to-player football team hazing incident is that the board shouldn’t be hasty in regard to addressing troubling situati...
Attending two political conventions back to back is like visiting two parallel universes: one conservative, one liberal; one overwhelmingly white, the other emphatically...
Butler County has taken a big step benefiting its veteran population with the start-up of the Veterans’ Treatment Court.
The court commendably acknowledges the possibili...
They lied. They fibbed. They cast aspersions. They distorted records. They told tall tales ranging from itsy bitsy white lies to great big ol’ whoppers.
Ain’t politics g...
The raises approved don’t amount to a large sum of money, but the pay increases granted to some administrators of the Butler County Vocational-Technical School probably ...
Included in the rhetoric of the political speeches of the past two weeks have been differing visions of the role and size of government. And to a lesser extent, how to p...
President Barack Obama had a tough act to follow on Thursday night in accepting the Democratic presidential nomination — himself, four years ago. At that point, he and t...
