The Star reports on the ongoing failure of Kansas City Schools: "A student or group of students punched a Kansas City band teacher after a high school girls’ basketball game Tuesday night, knocking the teacher unconscious." [...] 
Following our discussion in my Introduction to Journalism class of Jay Rosen’s ideas for rebooting the news system in the age of social media and Clay Shirky’s idea of “filter failure,” I asked my students to answer this question on their blogs:
What kind of filter do you have [...]
NEW ORLEANS - The federal government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina.
U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval on Wednesday awarded seven plaintiffs [...]
This tweet from the News-Leader's Chad Livengood about the House Democrats' health care bill got my heart racing yesterday:
Under House health care bill, failure to buy insurance will become a felony w/ 5-year jail time: [tinyurl.com]
This makes about as much sense as saying there are new criminal penalties' [...]
Congressman Roy Blunt seized on media reports that Goldman Sachs received H1N1 vaccines before some hospitals and blamed the Obama administration for its failure to "manage distribution of this vaccine."
The governor has called a summit to discuss DWI
JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon’s DWI summit is underway.
The governor, moved by our investigative series that found widespread failures to punish drunken drivers, has assembled a team of 34 people [...]
The Star's biz blog: "William Black, professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, says he's dumbfounded by the loss of taxpayer dollars in the failure of CIT" [...] Skelton says he opposes a public health insurance option and will vote against the current proposal from House Dems.
Gov. Nixon fired a former DNR official over this summer's failure to notify the public about high levels of E. coli bacteria at the Lake [...]
KMBC: Gov. Jay Nixon has fired a longtime aide and reinstated Missouri's environmental chief after an investigation reveals a pattern of failures to protect Missouri's water quality. [...] 
