Kansas City Star columnist Mike Hendricks highlights racial insensitivity other than his own as "the last white, male columnist" (as he's known to his colleagues) at The Star tap dances desperately to remain relevant . . . And ultimately fails. [...] 
This article in the Kansas City Star celebrates the Parents as Teachers Program, and the fact that it makes no effort to focus on people who really need help:
Saturday marked the 25th anniversary of legislation in 1984 that forced all Missouri school districts to offer the experimental Parents as [...]
By DAVE HELLING and DAVID GOLDSTEIN
The Kansas City Star
A pounded gavel, the votes, then four words: “The bill is passed.”
With that, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced narrow passage Saturday of historic legislation that would fundamentally change American health care for decades.
Democrats erupted in weary applause and cheers after a day-long [...]
The Kansas City Star reports that on Sunday, the state’s Department of Revenue began enforcing a 4-percent tax on yoga and Pilates classes. Why the change? Missouri officials have decided that yoga and Pilates are places of “amusement, entertainment or recreation” and therefore taxable, rather than spiritual practices that [...]
Money Quote from KC Blogger Ancillary Adams: "Newspapers really are in trouble. What other conclusions can you draw when the Star now has what appears to be a permanent place at the center of the homepage reserved for party pics?" [...] 
Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders and Jim Terry, a principal at TranSystems Corp., pitched their regional rail plan today to the editorial board of The Kansas City Star.
Sanders delivered a 20-page booklet on the plan and Terry said years of his engineering time already has gone into it. All of that [...]
