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Chief fixer, Sunshine Law and canoodling

Guy Speckman by Guy Speckman
April 5, 2024
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Imagine being the Chiefs’ fixer. Poor dude just got done with another long season and probably taking the wife and kids on a nice vacation and next thing you know he’s having to go to Dallas to put out a Rashee Rice fire. Had to stop by Arrowhead, pick up a bag of cash and jump on a private jet on Easter morning, no rest for fixing things. We got a Threepeat to get after.

There are days when I think sports teams’ charitable deeds in the community are outweighed by the pain they bring by bad actors on the same team. Anyway, nothing to see here folks, just another real-life event with real life repercussions brought to you by you and me and our cash. Super Bowl champion t-shirts have a social cost folks, carry on.

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I have no idea if Rice did anything wrong, but if the police can’t find you for hours after your car was crashed and left on the interstate, I’d say the odds the fixer needs to get there are very, very high.


I’ve never left a Corvette or Lamborghini on an interstate, just in case you were curious.


You guys remember when Parkville area resident Jason Maki took the City of Parkville to the proverbial legal woodshed and schooled them on the Sunshine Law? Yeah, me too. That education cost was well deserved. I wish he had the time to help the City of Platte City out of their canoodling of the law that is meant primarily for you to have transparency in government.

All the smokescreen stuff that has been thrown out about the Sunshine Law could have been avoided if they had simply followed the spirit of the law in the very beginning of this ordeal. When the city administrator was out on the town with the public works director and the public works director punched some dude on camera, they could have simply put them both on leave and told the public what they knew as truth at that point.

There is nothing in personnel law or Sunshine Law that precludes the government from telling you the truth as they know it, but that didn’t happen and the thing spiraled into months of mess, with everyone hiding behind trumped up empathy, laws, lawyers, and everything but transparency.


In other good news, we have a Donald Trump vs Joe Biden rematch for this fall. Both parties that pander to the idea of diversity have given us their oldest, whitest men as the best candidate. Let that sink in.

Oh yeah, also two guys from the East Coast.


The Missouri legislature has a few bills kicking around that would give teachers a raise. The raises being discussed are modest and there is hardly anyone that debates teacher base pay needs raised, but the entire situation to me is just pointless.

Throwing more money at the lower tier salary schedule doesn’t fix the problem. The problem is that any teacher who is concerned about pay will eventually aspire to become an administrator, which is where the money is and where it has gone over the last 20 years. Administration has exploded and it has sucked the payroll from the teacher pool.

Until they correct the actual management structure of schools, teacher pay will continue to be a problem, regardless of how much money the state throws, or doesn’t throw, at the problem.

(Guy Speckman can be reached canoodling with the Sunshine Law)

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Guy Speckman

Guy Speckman

Guy Speckman is a Landmark contributing columnist with his Ponder the Thought column. Speckman is the former owner of the Savannah Reporter, where the column appeared for nearly two decades. Speckman is a former city government manager, serving as city administrator in Maysville, Plattsburg and Savannah before entering business. He is a graduate of Northwest Missouri State University (1989). He is originally from Plattsburg, Missouri. He and his wife own and operate a real estate valuation firm and a daily legal newspaper and are the parents of two grown children.

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