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    COMMUNITY FACES


    This smiling couple cooled off on a warm summer day at the Gladstone pool. More photos from this and other events in the Kansas City area can be found at Community Faces, our online scrapbook of people having fun. Watch for our photographers around town, and you might see your face here.

    Mike Hendricks

    Bit late for a fight over where an aquarium will go

    Talk about lousy timing. Just when the developer of a Kansas-side public aquarium lines up key tax breaks for his project, Kansas City eco-devo types announce they’re putting together their own aquarium proposal because, gee, KC simply can’t do without its own big fish tank.

    Steve Penn

    Steve Penn: Street obstacle course could soon be clear

    This will come as welcome news to anyone who lives or does business along Troost Avenue and who has been inconvenienced by the street closing at 85th Street.

    Good Connections

    Good Connections: Care program provides friends and fun

    Keith Leake started taking his son, Alan, to Valley View United Methodist Church’s evening care program 29 years ago.

    C.W. Gusewelle

    Some performers’ efforts to communicate are lost in cacophony they call music

    My opinions about music are as archaic as my ideas about language, manners and work. I despise the contemporary notion that one way of spelling is as good as another, that subject-verb agreement is unimportant, or that the street argot is a reasonable substitute for proper speech.

    Steve Kraske

    Steelman can’t afford bad days like this

    Maybe Monday was just a bad day for Sarah Steelman. For her sake, she had better hope it was. That day the Missouri treasurer and wannabe governor appeared before the Chamber of Commerce here and gave a speech that ranged from college affordability to Missouri’s growing life sciences industry.

    KOREA JOURNAL


    Senior editor Randy Smith last fall was part of group of international journalists who traveled to South Korea and North Korea to study culture and politics.


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    MILITARY OFFICERS' BLOG
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