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Think tale of two cities… In one corner we have the Kansas City Star, ostensibly the defender of “actual news” in what passes for “our” area. In my new, little corner of the globe, lies the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson’s fast … Continue reading →

Things are getting seriously sad at Kansas City’s newspaper of record… What’s left of its news staff – tails between their legs – exited their historic brick home at 1729 Grand a few years back and moved into, later selling … Continue reading →

Is it possible for too many Christmas decorations to be too much? In cities like Kansas City, the more the merrier. Plaza holiday lights? Bring ’em – let the good times roll. Then again, whatever happened to tasteful holiday decorated … Continue reading →

I’m a pretty laid back guy… Aside from hanging out long ago with the Prime Minister of Canada on the stern of my parent’s yacht, dating a girl long distance in Torino, Italy in the ’80s, running The Pitch, then … Continue reading →

Is Westport on its last legs? Nope, times are definitely tough, but it’s more like a changing of the guard. More than a half dozen businesses either have – or are about to bite the dust in KC’s original entertainment … Continue reading →

Careful what you wish for… Remember that one? Well, that’s also my advice – albeit belatedly – for fans and alums of Big 12 college football powers like Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas. And going forward, KU‘s whine-and-cheese crowd who can’t … Continue reading →

At what point in time does somebody deservingly rise above the law? How about, never. That said, there’s a big difference between this year’s Chiefs from going undefeated and crawling out of last place to hanging to first by a … Continue reading →

The debate whether the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election was fairly conducted has been so bitterly and so viciously waged that it’s hard to see how the truth will ever come out… (It may take 50 or 60 years if the … Continue reading →

It’s not easy dodging those “woke” bullets… Take Dwight Sutherland of Sutherland Lumber fame, who was minding his own business two weeks back at a quaint Westwood coffee klatch just off the Country Club Plaza. “I was at Hi Hat Coffee  on State … Continue reading →

Nothing lasts forever, right? Honest presidents, cheap gas, movies with actual actors and story lines,  as opposed to over-the-hill actresses winning Academy Award for pooping into buckets. That said, COVID delays aside, at least we still have James Bond…for now. … Continue reading →

People tend of mellow oftentimes as they grow older… Take former KC Star bad boy (and rival columnist) Jason Whitlock. Ah, but the artist who-called-himself Big Sexy has bounced around plenty since leaving the newspaper a year or two after I did … Continue reading →

Former KU basketball coach Roy Williams said it first and arguably best… After suffering an uninspired home game crowd, Williams said, “The place should never be described as a wine-and-cheese crowd, and that’s what it sounded like out there tonight. If … Continue reading →

  “I come to bury Pastor Bob, not to praise him.” “The evil that men do live after them.”    (With apologies to William Shakespeare) I generally subscribe to the maxim “de mortuis nil nisi bonum” – concerning the dead, … Continue reading →

On the night of February 27, 1933, the Reichstag in Berlin, where the German parliament met, was set ablaze… Four weeks earlier Adolph Hitler’s Nationalist Socialist (Nazi) Party had formed a minority government at the request of President Paul Von … Continue reading →

After a year of awfulness, is it really any surprise that the beat still goes on…at least in California… For starters, consider this. I’m so far removed at this point, having returned too my former high school and college stomping … Continue reading →