Between the Lines

On Friday night we had tickets to see comedian Ron White at Ameristar Casino. Great show. Hilarious. It has been...

How’s the Royals’ season treating you? It has me looking forward to the NFL Draft, and I’m normally not a...

Yesterday on our Facebook page someone referred to Greg Plumb of Park University as Professor Plumb and now I can’t...

Now we can more freely speak about the Italian restaurant coming to Downtown Platte City in the former Shirley’s Fashion...

It doesn’t matter if you always/sometimes/never agreed with his political stances, this much I can say with confidence about retiring...

Scott Fricker’s withdrawal from the race for Platte County presiding commissioner has a faction of the local Republican party scrambling....

Another dramatic week in Platte County politics. Pretty incredible stuff. You can’t make it up. Well, you could, but if...

Here’s some business news for you to kick things off this week. A Love’s Travel Stop location is coming to...

Been a bit of a rough week for me, if you want to know the truth. Today I was verbally...

More by accident than by design, at least once a week in this column some random topic seems to come...

How’s this weather treating you? Fine, thanks for asking. We’ve had temps in the 50s, 60s, even 70s here in...

Always keeping a finger on the pulse of the people of Platte County. There’s a lot going on in the...

Has the 2026 local political scene been wild enough for you? It’s certainly keeping most of us in the media...

Between Christmas and New Year’s Day, I was reading one of those year-end summaries of the news in Missouri for...

It is almost, but not quite, full blown campaign season in Platte County. Much going on and much more rumored...

Foley food advice. Buffalo Wild Wings ain’t it. It’s not even close to what it used to be. For good...

Wild and crazy. There is plenty of copy, plenty of columns to write based on the nearly two-hour budget discussion...

Welcome back to Between the Lines. And now, without further ado--because, let’s be honest, nobody likes ado--let’s get on with...

Here is a day after Christmas treat for you. The Landmark’s Chris Kamler, our Rambling Moron columnist on page 3...

Thumbs up to Kansas City drivers for a job well done in calendar year 2025, apparently. Through Dec. 16, there...