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Kansas City archives jump to: Patrick Dobson • Rhiannon Ross • Deborah Young • Jim Hightower Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell • Op Ed • Publisher's Note • Greg Palast |
Tom BogdonHaunted by NAFTA | 10.26.07 Time to step forward, Mr. Gore | 10.12.07 The issue of abortion leans heavily on both political parties | 08.24.07 Bad TIF, good TIF | 08.03.07 |
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PATRICK DoBSONSwearing loyalty to whom? | 08.28.09 ‘Small government’ devotees suck in federal dollars | 08.07.09 Suffering under our health care market | 07.17.09 Who
will save the raft? Jackson
County legislators play taxpayers as dupes Babbit-like
minds face the will of the people Kansas
City's rain gardens hide the truth Those
dirty immigrants? Don't buy it. A
race lost but worth it Our
moment of independence Gay
has its day Nixon:
The pretend Democrat Immigrants
already American Gordon
Parks showed us who we were Just
how much does common sense cost? Louis,
the baseball player, and the year in KC that ruined childhood Enforcing
the border to hide the war Changing
the face of the United States: A national defense based on good will
A
town full of Babbitt
A
pocket full of dynamite works both ways
Taking
the river back from
In
Jack, a crime of which we are all guilty Sen.Talent
has forgotten me...maybe Kauffman
Foundation earns Doggie Doodoo Prize Home
for the homies Swallow
the posion 'Moral
issues' that are neither moral nor issues
A
boy and his friend have a tough start in 2005 Blunt
and Republicans serve up 100 persent pure Missouri Hokum Two
kids and a very big river UMKC
and its student government assail the First Amendment Downtown
formerly American Pre-poll
fright night Just
close your eyes Checked
in, and out Quit
complaining and start agitating |
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RHIANNON ROSSOh,
what a difference belief makes Blame
it on Paris Talk
to the Animals Knock,
knock, who's there Send
home the clown From
the mouths of babes Mum's
the word |
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JIM HIGHTOWERSpending on the rich, cutting back on the rest of us 07.16.10 Franken V. Roberts 07.09.10 Soccer socialism 07.02.10 The Chamber of Commerce's ‘kumbaya’ moment 06.25.10 Uniting to fight Citizens United 06.18.10 The economy is up! Or is it down? 06.04.10 Feisty grannies stand up for peace 05.28.10 Monsanto comes a cropper 05.21.10 The biggest bank heist you never heard about 05.14.10 Who would want this job? | 05.07.10 Corporate murder? | 04.30.10 America needs a populist on the court | 04.23.10 The corporate fee game | 04.16.10 A public official who stands for us! | 04.09.10 Limbaugh loves universal health coverage! | 04.02.10 Drowning democracy in an ocean of corporate money | 03.26.10 Down on the GOP's farm | 03.19.10 Foreign corporations in our elections| 03.12.10 Needed: Vigara for backbones| 03.05.10 Lawmakers dance with the devil| 02.26.10 What happened to Wall Street reform?| 02.19.10 The lasting spirit of Howard Zinn| 02.12.10 A GOP leader's economic plan| 02.05.10 The Next Battleground For Health Care Reform| 01.29.10 Giving proper thanks to Wall Street| 01.22.10 Protest the repression of our freedom to protest| 01.08.10 Helpful New Year's resolutions | 01.01.10 The rich worry about you| 12.26.09 How to shake the hardship blues| 12.11.09 Weed Wars | 12.04.09 Where did the ‘Jobs President’ go? | 11.20.09 Dying for Karzai | 11.13.09 Fifty-Five healthcare hypocrites | 11.06.09 Getting smart about the ‘Smart Choices’ label | 10.30.09 The price of privatization | 10.23.09 Obama must get going on jobs | 10.16.09 Wall Street's new Halloween trick | 10.09.09 Health care tidbits | 09.25.09 Hide the sponsor | 09.11.09 Obama continues Bush rendition policy | 09.04.09 A traitorous assault on our democracy | 08.21.09 Cowering gun advocates of Congressy | 08.14.09 The invasion of genetically engineered eucalyptus | 08.07.09 Why support corporations that don't support us? | 08.01.09 Dog-sniff jurisprudenc | 07.24.09 Bankers behaving badly | 07.10.09 Reining in corporate tax dodgers | 07.03.09 Why no Republican health-care reforms? | 06.26.09 Should charity hospitals be charitable? | 06.18.09 Wall Street's recipe for another disaster | 06.12.09 Death by pie | 05.29.09 Those who directed torture: Too big to punish? | 05.22.09 Reining in corporate tax dodgers | 05.15.09 Wall Street still playing tricks on us | 05.04.09 Two Iraq vets stand up to corporate giant | 04.17.09 Watching you watch ads | 04.03.09 The sanctity of corporate contracts | 03.27.09 The milkman delivers | 03.20.09 Death, taxes... and debt collectors | 03.13.09 Blackwater metamorphosed A change in marketing strategy.| 02.27.09 Money
deal taints the times Is
Geithner really the best there is? Stealth
price increases on consumer products The
crucial need to investigate presidential excess Why
the homeland security department is so beloved The
death of journalism Holiday
gifts for a better America Diminishing
the stench in Congress Edible
justice Link
up with the Obama White House Don't
be glum go shopping! The
biggest bank robbery ever Real
change depends on us A
knee-jerk attack on poor people Barons
of the mass media ignore the masses
Who's
who in the bailout game
Bucking
Wall Street
Bad
timing on Treasury Department ads
Banking
jobs on the move
Another
Bush mess to clean up
What
McCain's VP choice says about him
Professor
Bush economic nostrum
Cashing
in on payday loans
Newsvertisements
Bush's
farewell gift to chemical bosses
Again,
Congress surrenders its constitutional powers
DHSS
border fence will split campus DHSS
border fence will split campus Time
to free up our freedoms Skimming
congressional funds The
news from Iraq Exxon
sucking up profits and subsidies And
now, a word about the war Aging
agitators Middle-class
anguish Spending
your stimulus check Fencing
off our democracy The
Olympics: let the spying begin Name
that drug! Who
benefits from cloning? Cut-rate
labor for any job Forest
Service serves mining company The
crystal clear insights of Bill Kristol Beware
of corporate heroes Election
integrity, 2008 Unfriendly
skies Sweatshop
crucifixes Why
not 'drink local?' Congressional
betrayal A
very personal protest Stand
with Obey It's
gut-check time for Congress Inescapable
TV ads Look
behind the curtain of freedom Rebuild
the middle class Democrats
cave in to Bush fearmongering Pushing
for shared prosperity Thompson
the actor Washington
is killing America's troops Bush's
imperial designs on Iraq The
fraud of the voter-fraud scare Vacation
to 'Warming Island' Why
import so much food? More
corporate war against workers Stamping
out the free press Why
media companies get no respect The
privatization of Walter Reed George
in fantasyland Jennifer
and the Pork Board Molly
Ivins Bush's
health-care tax Immigration
surrealism Responding
to labor Left-wing
penguins and devilish tofu Sensible
priorities The
inspiring power of kids Invaders
from afar Freedom
of the press Let
them eat nanoparticles Exporting
patients State
Secrets Katherine
Harris speaks Messing
with meat Sensible
priorities Biotech
mutation of creeping bentgrass Ashcroft
cashes in The
price of conglomerate journalism Bad
bosses Locking
down your right to know The
government's sick war on marijuana Getting
goofy on homeland security Axing
our national parks The
Nardelli Model Bush's
mommy lawyers Scratching
the backs of corporate backer The
Real Mother's Day Librarians
battle for freedom Don't
look down at immigrants, look up Constricting
high school education For
the love of nature Doing
something about global warming Conservatives
chastise Bush The
scandal is deeper than Abramoff George
W wants corporate governance The
great money-gobbling war machine It's
about ministering, not preaching Evangelical
environmentalism A
Thanksgiving connection Martial
law for bird flu? A
better business model Steakhouse
ethics Finding
the Democratic Party A
secret giveaway to energy giants IBM's
plans for the midddle class
Small steps for bigger
change
The wrath of Leviticus Bush's
Evangelical Surprise
Chevy's
revolting revolution Corparate
free speech Bush's
democratic relativism Let's
stop the 'Free Trade' nutballs Who
owns Washington? Open
the government Bush's
Bubble Who're
really the steroid abusers? The
real 'Accountability Moments' Creeping
Biometrics The
morality of the moralists Clean
candidates elected We've
just begun to fight 'Conservatives'
push for more big brother The
Ranks stand tall Making
a splash American
egalitarianism Wal-Mart
buys respectability Caging
free speech Fight
for your freedom to read The
nuttiness of King George the W The
Costco model Bush's
'respect' for vets Trumping
Trump |
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE by Bruce RodgersBeing the outsider is Funkhouser’s reelection strength | 05.21.10 Liberals liberalizing | 05.10.10 Billionaires abound | 01.23.10 Admire, yes, support, no | 12.04.09 Dress code violations and other TIF business | 09.25.09 Beyond The Funk | 09.04.09 Communication breakdown | 08.07.09 On this Memorial Day … | 05.22.09 Conservative hysteria, Nixon’s timidity | 03.27.09 Television worth supporting, and disagreeing with | 03.06.09 It's really about the money | 02.27.09 Pat Gray's day | 01.23.09 Resisting the rinsing | 01.09.09 An end as much as a win – maybe | 11.07.08 Political lemmings, save one | 10.17.08 Enough Already | 09.26.08 Reacting to The Star's sins of omission | 07.25.08 Be patriotic - read a newspaper | 07.03.08 Stupidity for all, a threat to one | 06.20.08 Cynicism well grounded | 06.06.08 New boss same as the old boss? | 03.07.08 Five years... and counting | 02.29.08 Missed opportunity? | 02.08.08 Spinning a New Year's quarter | 01.04.08 Funkhouser the Provocateur, Funkhouser the Great | 12.14.07 Signs of decline continue | 11.09.07 White guys defending white guys | 10.26.07 Speaking truth to power…but not in The Star | 10.05.07 Semler must go | 09.07.07 When it comes to light rail in KC, it takes effort to work through the Mickey Mouse-ness of it all | 08.10.07 Does payback and ambition fuel criticism of Funkhouser? | 07.27.07 Dale, Jo, L.O. and the Bush Library | 06.29.07 Funk becomes more Clay-like | 06.15.07 Down on Funk | 05.25.07 Insiders' squabble | 05.04.07 'Funk-istis' by no means | 03.30.07 Choosing a mayor – difficult but not too messy | 03.23.07 Brooks goes on message, Funkhouser becomes a little more establishment | 03.16.07 Mayoral forum minus one | 03.09.07 A chance at a different kind of mayor's race | 03.02.07 Weeding the ego out of the mayoral candidates | 02.23.07 These bloggers an unimpressive bunch | 02.16.07 A crowd at the gate | 01.26.07 Ruminations on McClanahan and beyond | 12.29.06 It hurts to be an American | 12.03.06 The people's moxie | 11.10.06 A soccer game of power and privilege | 11.03.06 Sigh... Chastain is all we got | 10.20.06 Post-primary punditry | 8.11.06 Color instead of reporting | 7.21.06 Impressions from a candidates' forum | 7.01.06 Making America un-American | 5.19.06 Fairness, fear and the big disconnect | 3.31.06 Arrogance
meets ineptitude Questions that Alito weren't asked | 01.13.06 DLC road show hits KC | 8.28.05 Attention Democrats: The public doesn't care about the Bolton nomination | 6.14.05 Dysfunctional
America KC
gets 'Wal-Mart-ed' Evolutionary
leaps Brace
yourself Reasons
abound to oppose Bistate II Sad,
scary and pathetic Sticker
shock Searching
for someone to vote for 'Arena-itis'
and other reflections about the August 3rd ballot Summertime
teen thing Dingbat
reasoning Political
dancing over Union Station |
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Greg Palast‘Stick your damn hand in it’ — 20th birthday of the Exxon Valdez lie | 02.20.09 'Turn around while you can! Trust me, Queens sucks too!' | 02.20.09 Obama is a two-face liar. Aw-Right! | 01.30.09 Bill Richardson - Kissinger-American | 01.09.09 Obama's 'Way-to-go, Brownie!' Moment? | 12.12.08 The Pits: Georgia's GOP swipes the Peach State | 11.07.08 Vote for him - because he's black | 11.03.08 Nuns on the Run - one way they're trying to steal your vote | 10.24.08 BBC-TV: 'Set up to steal it again.' Is 2008 alerady fixed? | 10.10.08 Night of the Living Vote-snatchers - from Steal Back Your Vote! | 09.19.08 Chewing the Buddha - Bush at the Olympics | 08.22.08 The McCain Plan: Homer Simpson without the donut | 08.08.08 Obama doesn't sweat. He should. | 08.01.08 The house I live in | 07.11.08 Court rewards Exxon for Valdez spill | 06.27.08 Obama's secret war on profiteering tax | 05.23.08 Robert Kennedy, Greg Palast: The Final Investigation? | 05.02.08 José can you see? Bush's Trojan Taco | 04.25.08 As the reverend said... especially Pennsylvania | 03.28.08 The $200 billion bailout for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked | 03.14.08 $300 million from Chavez to FARC a fake | 03.07.08 Exxon suxx. McCain duxx | 02.29.08 The South Carolina you won't see on CNN | 01.25.08 George of Arabia: Better kiss your Abe 'goodbye' | 01.18.08 Good and Evil at the Center of the Earth: A Quechua Christmas Carol | 12.28.07 Fear of Chavez is fear of democracy | 12.07.07 Hillary's Musharraf | 11.16.07 Burn Baby Burn - The California celebrity fires | 11.02.07 Dan Rather: Tased and confused and the still-unreported story of 'Top Gun' George Bush | 9.28.07 Bush's Fake Sheik Whacked: The Surge and the Al Qaeda Bunny | 9.21.07 American Nightmare: Gonzales 'wrong and illegal and unethical | 8.31.07 Hurricane George – How the White House Drowned New Orleans | 8.24.07 Busted (and) Crimes of the Times | 8.03.07 John Perkins: Jerk, con-man, shill | 7.06.07 Randi Rhodes and Greg Palast hunt Giuliani's favorite vulture | 6.22.07 US Attorney resigns following Conyers' request for BBC documents | 6.01.07 The goods on Goodling and the keys to the kingdom | 5.25.07 An Army of Rove-Bots – Captain Iglesias, Obstruction of Justice and the Theft of 2008 | 5.18.07 Don't fire Gonzales | 4.27.07 The Accomplices: Sundance George and Butch Reid and the Virginia Tech Massacre | 4.20.07 It's STILL the oil: Secret Condi meeting on oil before invasion | 3.23.07 Bush's hit-woman behind prosecutor firings has long history of purges to protect Bush | 3.16.07 Bush's new US attorney a criminal? | 3.9.07 |
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DEBORAH YOUNGBecause
he is black A
sweet alternative to cable TV 18th
and Vine can't be what it was, but... The
scariest numbers |
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OP EDAN OPEN LETTER OF RECONCILIATION & RESPONSIBILITY TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE Missouri Health Care for America Now Reacts to Massachusetts Special Election Results | by Bar Kaelter, Board President, Missouri ProVote | 01.22.10 American Mantra: Free Market Capitalism and Obama | by Peter Phillips | 01.08.10 America’s scary healthcare policies and more | by Lloyd Walsh | 08.28.09 Real health care reform must include a choice of a public health insurance option A black president doesn’t mean racism is gone in America Knotty Problems My children were not there when... President
Sarah Palin: Commander in Chief Notes
for a general election: It's time for a re-boot Sarah Palin Global
starvation ignored by American policy elites U.S.
perpetuates mass killings in Iraq Missouri
Immigration Lawyers denounce Missouri House Bill 1549 Take
Action for Tomas Young Cuba
supports press freedom Streetcars
on Troost proposal An
election without meaning Senate
Bill 764 is an economic benefit to the state Truth
Emergency Movement seeks to counter America's diet of corporate journalism Consuming Christmas | by Vicki Walker | 12.28.07 Why the US lacks full health care | by Peter Phillips and Bridget Thornton | 10.12.07 Ahmadinejad is a convenient distraction | by Kale Baldock | 10.05.07 A comment on Yael Abouhalkah's Star editorial about KC leaders | by Wayne Flaherty| 09.07.07 Purpose and Method of Red Bridge Road Study in Trouble | by the Friends of Red Bridge| 09.07.07 Dear Dog Lovers | by Deb Hipp| 08.31.07 A skewed HNTB light rail study | by Clay Chastain| 08.24.07 Payday lenders provide a valuable service | by Tom Linafelt | 08.03.07 An eight-lane I-70? Is that really what we need? | by Ron McLinden| 07.20.07 A highway that will affect all of Johnson County | by James McKown and Chris Vanhoecke| 07.06.07 Put away the flags | by Howard Zinn| 07.03.07 Mayor Funkhouser needs to support products made in KC | by Jim Stoufer| 06.22.07 Times are changing, but unions remain vital to workers | by Bob Hemenway | 06.08.07 Oh,
what a tangled web we weave... How
Chastain's light rail plan affects you Reminder
to legislators: 'The Welfare of the People Shall be the Supreme Law'
- That's Missouri's State Motto Wounded
watchdog MASW
outraged by PSC decision – cost shifted from utilities to those
least able to pay More
about a soccer stadium than youth What
to consider when your cat or dog needs a new home The end of times | by Jean-Claude Gerard Koven | 6.16.06 Inflated terrorism - Propaganda lies | 6.02.06 The referee's call | 5.12.06 From the Bleachers: Citizen views on the April 4 stadium sales tax/rolling roof proposals | 4.03.06 Idiocy and Justice Scalia | by L Scott Smith | 2.24.06 Open letter to members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee |From: the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD)| 1.20.06 MASW
responds to the Gov. Blunt's State of the State An
example of Spiritual Action Media
threatens homeland health Thanksgiving
Thoughts Evolution
exhibit shows a special human trait Review commission didn't deal with the important questions | by Dianna Moore| 09.30.05 Imagine the unimaginable: Emergency preparedness in Missouri | by Barry Speert| 09.16.05 The
'Culture of Life' top ten (for progressives) Will
the world really end on December 12, 2012? Talking
or tying shoes
I
will not be celebrating Thanksgiving this year
The
values ploy Choice
is key to lower health care costs Losing
to bacteria An
open letter of conscience and choice to all spiritual, metaphysical,
yoga and meditation communities |
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Kerri Fivecoat-CampbellIs breed specific legislation really a good idea? | 08.11.06 The colors of the border war | 04.14.06 Let's at least slap Bush on the wrist | 03.24.06 When considering the Smith verdict, not much has changed | 02.17.06 It's
hell getting old Bravo,
Fairway, you deserve my discretionary dollar 'I
told you so' doesn't quite work Fifteen
years later... Nostalgia
doesn't pay the bills The
Right's selective attraction to the death penalty Flag
sympathies, or not |
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