Kansas City Star: Politics
- Blunt pollution numbers don't add up, story says
Tuesday - 06/03/2014 - 12:16 PMThere's been some Internet chortling Monday and Tuesday about a press release from Sen. Roy Blunt opposing the White House's new pollution reduction proposal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nixon says he'll oppose sales tax hike for transportation infrastructure
Monday - 06/02/2014 - 06:21 PMThe Missouri Democrat says a three-fourths-cent sales tax increase for statewide transportation projects is unfair to the poor and elderly.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nixon turns thumbs down on August sales tax vote
Monday - 06/02/2014 - 03:18 PMThe Missouri governor says he can't support $6 billion transportation sales tax in August.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Smith picks up Koster endorsement in Jackson County primary
Monday - 06/02/2014 - 01:54 PMThe firefighters' union figure is running against former Royal Frank White in Jackson County Democratic primary.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - BuzzChatter Monday: Roberts says his experience is an asset and a reason why he deserves re-election
Monday - 06/02/2014 - 08:00 AMAnd...Nixon getting ripped by Democrats and Republicans these days
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl reaches Germany as U.S. officials defend exchange that won his release
Sunday - 06/01/2014 - 08:13 PMPresident Barack Obama's top national security aides on Sunday defended the deal that freed an Army sergeant captured in Afghanistan in exchange for five senior Taliban officials held at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba even as the Taliban's leader hailed the release as "a great victory."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Challenge to Kansas same-sex marriage ban makes its way through the courts
Saturday - 05/31/2014 - 02:25 PMBackers of gay marriage are on an undefeated roll through the U.S. court system, a streak they hope carries into Kansas.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - For GOP, which Reagan legacy is right for 2016?
Sunday - 06/01/2014 - 02:47 AMAnother prominent Republican gathering, more evidence of the dueling legacies of President Ronald Reagan overhanging the party as it tries to widen its reach and avoid extending its presidential losing streak in 2016.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'No Place to Hide' uses Edward Snowden documents to analyze NSA program
Friday - 05/30/2014 - 01:00 AMRelying on newly disclosed and already disclosed documents from Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald's book shows that the scope of the NSA's surveillance exceeds not only our imagination but also the agency's capacity even to store, much less analyze, it all.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kansas Rep. Pauls joins Republican Party
Friday - 05/30/2014 - 03:12 PMA Kansas House member is leaving the Democratic Party to seek re-election as a Republican, citing what she calls Democratic hostility to her opposition to abortion and gay rights.
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- White House: Prisoner swap doesn't mean Obama thinks he's above the law
Monday - 06/02/2014 - 04:24 PMThe White House on Monday pushed back against criticism that President Barack Obama sidestepped the law by authorizing a prisoner swap of Guantanamo detainees without notifying Congress.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kansas Democrats file election, ethics complaints in U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins
Monday - 06/02/2014 - 09:59 PMKansas Democrats filed two federal complaints Monday against Republican U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, accusing her of violating ethics and election rules because a staffer also serves as an unpaid spokesman for her re-election campaign.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- King coal in Missouri, Kansas
Monday - 06/02/2014 - 02:23 PMElectric company expected to fight call for reduced emissions have given to Missouri senators Blunt, McCaskill
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The crystal ball is cracked
Monday - 06/02/2014 - 12:45 PMPredicting the future is a fool's game. Politicians, bureaucrats, and reporters do it anyway.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Missouri statistics show racial disparity in traffic stops continues to rise
Sunday - 06/01/2014 - 05:54 PMAttorney General Chris Koster said he is disturbed by new statistics showing that Missouri law enforcement officers have continued to pull over black motorists at a significantly greater rate than white drivers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jay Nixon's motives for placing a transportation sales tax on the August ballot remain unclear
Sunday - 06/01/2014 - 10:25 PMGov. Jay Nixon talks coyly about why he chose the lightly attended August primary for a vote on raising billions in taxes. While most political analysts see the August date as place where tax hikes go to die, they concede such political tactics represent an imprecise science.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - For GOP, which Reagan legacy is right for 2016?
Saturday - 05/31/2014 - 06:48 PMAnother prominent Republican gathering, more evidence of the dueling legacies of President Ronald Reagan overhanging the party as it tries to widen its reach and avoid extending its presidential losing streak in 2016.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Clerks prep for Illinois' gay marriage rollout
Saturday - 05/31/2014 - 10:28 AMA few years into their relationship, Sabra Blumhorst and Chelsea Baker exchanged wedding vows, never mind the couple's November nuptials weren't legally recognized in Illinois. Civil unions didn't interest the Carbondale couple, who long had hoped to have a legal marriage.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S. soldier freed after five years of captivity in Afghanistan in exchange for five Guantanamo detainees
Saturday - 05/31/2014 - 01:15 PMThe only American solider held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed from Taliban captivity in exchange for the release of five Afghan detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Obama's boldest move on carbon comes with perils
Saturday - 05/31/2014 - 08:28 AMThe new pollution rule the Obama administration announces Monday will be a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's environmental legacy and arguably the most significant U.S. environmental regulation in decades.
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- BuzzChatter Tuesday: Nixon comes out against transportation tax
Tuesday - 06/03/2014 - 08:00 AMBut Missouri's road needs continue to mount -- with no solution in sight
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pompeo-Tiahrt race could be spirited, tough one that splits GOP, analysts say
Monday - 06/02/2014 - 08:57 PMIf the recent chatter on social media is any indication, the Republican primary race between Mike Pompeo and Todd Tiahrt for the 4th Congressional District seat should be heated.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Blunt vows to fight Obama's carbon emission plan
Monday - 06/02/2014 - 01:54 PMU.S. Sen. Roy Blunt is vowing to fight new carbon reduction guidelines released by President Barack Obama's administration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - McCaskill goes to bat for Clinton one more time
Monday - 06/02/2014 - 10:54 AMShe says Republicans are playing politics with foreign policy and criticize Obama, Clinton no matter what they do
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - EPA seeks to cut power plant carbon by 30 percent
Sunday - 06/01/2014 - 06:29 PMThe Obama administration on Monday will roll out a plan to cut earth-warming pollution from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, setting in motion one of the most significant actions to address global warming in U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Missouri bill to let concealed weapons into schools raises eyebrows
Sunday - 06/01/2014 - 05:43 PMA bill that would allow specially trained teachers to carry concealed weapons in the classroom is coming under fire from some Missouri teachers. The Missouri measure has passed the legislature and waits Gov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- States move to blunt Obama carbon plan
Sunday - 06/01/2014 - 10:54 AMAs President Barack Obama prepares to announce tougher new air quality standards, lawmakers in several states already are trying to blunt the impact on aging coal-fired power plants that feed electricity to millions of consumers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - For many Americans, the chance to move from poverty to wealth is just a dream
Saturday - 05/31/2014 - 10:41 PMThirty years ago, Mary Jo Vernon was a single mother with three small children and three jobs. Now earning a six-figure salary as Platte County's health director, Vernon embodies the American dream, the deeply held belief that anyone who works hard and follows the rules can succeed.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Exchange of Idaho soldier Bowe Bergdahl for Taliban detainees sets off debate
Saturday - 05/31/2014 - 08:19 PMAn American soldier who spent nearly five years in Taliban captivity was freed Saturday in exchange for five members of the Taliban who'd been imprisoned for years at the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Obama makes public health pitch for carbon rules
Saturday - 05/31/2014 - 06:03 AMAs governors, businesses and environmentalists brace for new limits on power plant pollution, President Barack Obama is casting his unprecedented effort to curb greenhouse gases as essential to protect the health and wellbeing of children.
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