Opinion

Occasionally, you'll hear a whisper of it. Maybe you're in line at the grocery store and someone slips up. Possibly,...

Nostalgia is understandable. I get it. Over time, the past softens. The hard edges melt under the passage of years....

Thankfully Platte County escaped the night of the twisters on Tuesday evening with no tornado touchdowns reported here. It was...

I’ve heard of attempting to verbally neuter board members or privately chastising members who may not want to march in...

Platte City will keep its current headquarters for the local popo at Fourth and Main, at least for a couple...

Just this week, my wife and I have left work early three times for 4:00 baseball games. I attended a...

This issue officially marks the start of The Landmark’s 155th year of weekly publication. This newspaper has never missed a...

How about a little of this and a little of that as we roll ourselves through another week? Are you...

Having just completed watching Avengers: Endgame and the Battle of Winterfell on Game of Thrones in the span of about...

Back at the Between the Lines grind while wondering what borderline insane proposal the Platte County Commission will come up...

"A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.” --Fictitious Sean Parker, The Social Network H​ow long...

Today marks my wife and my’s 20th wedding anniversary. April 17, 1999. I have never been one of those husbands...

Very cool. Less than three months after his death, former Landmark editorial cartoonist Matthew Silber is being honored by having...

Listen, nobody is going to mistake me for a rocket scientist. Let's get that out of the way at the...

It’s time to review some local history as the autopsy is completed on Platte County’s failed $65 million sales tax...

Platte County’s wildly over-the-top $65 million jail sales tax increase proposal was bludgeoned by voters on Tuesday. A very public...

Do you remember the commercial when you were younger where the man and woman were both walking down the street...

This spring election season in Platte County has had a little bit of everything. Don’t turn away too long, you’ll...

T​his spring election season in Platte County has had a little bit of everything. Don’t turn away too long, you’ll...

Happy Opening Day, Kansas City. Opening Day means that you've survived another winter; you've survived another football and college basketball...