Opinion

Eight folks have applied to become associate circuit judge in Platte County. The chosen one will fill the spot vacated...

A little spring in the step this week. We're just weeks away from complaining about the heat and lack of...

EDITOR: We often take our roads and bridges for granted. We trust them to hold our cars up and to...

EDITOR: One of the best examples of taxpayer dollars at work has to be credited to the Parkville Special Road...

EDITOR: All the 'small government' proponents and 'free market' enthusiasts need only look at the disaster that has befallen the...

EDITOR: In the past two weeks I have received multiple communications from the Platte County R-3 School District on the...

I'm already regretting taking part in that new drinking game, downing a shot every time a state investigation is opened...

Numbers are weird. It takes me forever to eat one salad. It's only one. I bought one of those bags...

Remember when I told you that the pandemic would generally ease to a finish in March or April of 2021?...

Welcome to the frozen tundra. My car thermometer registered -16 degrees on my drive to work Tuesday morning, in some...

Gather round kids, Grandpa is going to tell you a little story about the early '20's." "Aw, not again. Can't...

I'd like to speak to you all about something important. I've been on these pages for over a year now...

Puffy coat alert! You may have noticed it's cold outside. Several days of single digit high temperatures have either already...

EDITOR: Want to know why we have so many johnny-come-lately Trump bashers? Follow the money...like most everything else in Washington...

It's been a year. A year ago, I was standing in the bitter Kansas City cold at Union Station trying...

As we head to press Wednesday morning, the Platte County Health Department is busy administering a few hundred doses of...

EDITOR: We read with interest the "Alderman has terse exchange with citizen" article in the Jan. 27 issue of The...

EDITOR: I read an article (Alderman has terse exchange with citizen) in The Landmark, dated Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, that...

There is a Twitter account called @apollo_50th that is "live" tweeting Apollo spacecraft missions as they happened 50 years ago....

The Associated Press ran a story this week on the trouble the pandemic has caused for "emerging adults." Go ahead,...