Opinion

You can decide for yourselves whether you think Mike Reik, superintendent at Platte County R-3, is over-compensated, fairly well compensated,...

Who was your first sports hero? For me, early days at Kauffman Stadium were rich with applicants. Freddie Patek. Frank...

Super Bowl champs!! T​​he Chiefs did it. After 50 years of falling short--and really only one of those years in...

This is it. Kansas City, your Super Bowl is just a few days away. Don't forget to enjoy the moment....

This is it. Kansas City, your Super Bowl is just a few days away. Don’t forget to enjoy the moment....

If you blinked, you probably missed it. More likely, however, you probably just stayed in bed. If you're unfamiliar, I'm...

I just got a spam email saying "your prostate is the size of a lemon" and now I don't know...

Life is funny. Every Sunday, I find myself staring at a television. Most days it's in my living room. Occasionally,...

Heads up, it's a big election year in Platte County. It starts, of course, with municipal elections in April when...

The text came in around 10 am on Saturday morning. “Your package is 8 stops away!” I looked outside and...

"I have been patiently waiting for your column on our old friend, the late great Legend, Shake Pepper. You did...

It's easy to sit here and say that I wanted to be Denny Matthews or Joe Posnanski or Chris Berman...

Happy New Year! Starting Wednesday we'll all have 2020 vision. Or something like that. With all the changes in the...

The cyber lifestyle has brought us ways to do nearly everything faster. I just ordered an entire refrigerator of groceries...

And so this is Christmas. I hope you have fun. In order to allow our staff to enjoy both Christmas...

At the corner of 12th and Main Street in downtown Kansas City sits the Empire Theater. I am standing near...

You guys, I'm trying. I really am. But with every year that passes, I can't help it. The scowl is...

I have a hard time sitting still for long periods of time. I recognize this is a flaw in my...

It is presumed that Man has walked the earth for nearly 200,000 years. Evolution has worked slowly. First, it was...

Edwin Dean Pepper, Jr.--known to almost no one by that name, because to the world he was Shaker--passed away unexpectedly...