Category The Nation
LEE’S SUMMIT, FEBRUARY 13, 2012 – US-MO5th District Representative Emanuel Cleaver is promoting “Easy Voting” for students by using their School Picture Identification. The following comes from Emanuel Cleaver’s EC from DC newsletter of February 10, 2012 Students should be… Continue Reading →
LEE’S SUMMIT, FEBRUARY 8, 2012 – The Department of Health and Human Services – the people assigned the task to put the rules around Obamacare – have taken the commerce clause one step further by requiring the Catholic Church to… Continue Reading →
LEE’S SUMMIT, November 19, 2011 – Let me get this straight, Martha Stewart goes to jail for insider trading, the President, Senators, and Congressman all berate Wall Street, yet they have the right to use their knowledge of upcoming legislation… Continue Reading →
November 9, 2011 – State Senator Will Kraus: Guest Column – Using the word “celebrate” in relation to Veterans Day has seemed a stretch to me. When we think of celebrating, we think of gathering in joy and in happiness… Continue Reading →
LEE’S SUMMIT, October 26, 2011 – Last week every station carried Vice President Biden’s plea to pass the $35 Billion pared back jobs bill to put “teachers, firefighters and policemen back to work”. Vice President Biden tried his best to… Continue Reading →
LEE’S SUMMIT, October 27, 2011 – In 1981 I graduated college with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, and had outstanding loans of nearly eight thousand dollars. During college I worked selling paneling, Sears fences, door-to-door fire detector sales,… Continue Reading →
LEE’S SUMMIT, September 14, 2011 – Boeing, unlike General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford is truly representing Management’s side in the Union negotiations that led to the decision to put the new 787 Dreamliner production in South Carolina. It is the… Continue Reading →
LEE’S SUMMIT, September 11, 2011 – ten years ago today I felt the world shake as I walked into work and everyone was watching the television in the small gym. The twin towers were already on fire. I didn’t know… Continue Reading →
LEE’S SUMMIT, September 9, 2011 – The President of the United States spoke for 34 minutes last night in front of a Joint Session of Congress, outlining his long awaited jobs plan. The Whitehouse put out a bullet point of… Continue Reading →
LEE’S SUMMIT, September 7, 2011 – Last Thursday, September 1, 2011, after the City Council meeting, as local kids played in the water jets outside city hall, I was granted to opportunity to speak with Councilpersons Whitley, Gray, and Hofmann… Continue Reading →
Ten years ago, the United States of America suffered perhaps the most devastating blow in our nation’s history. Wars have been larger and more lives have been lost, but on the morning of September 11, 2001, our sense of safety… Continue Reading →
LEE’S SUMMIT, August 13, 2011 – I ran across an interesting blogger by the name of Tina Dupuy (http://blog.cagle.com/2011/08/politics-reality-show-style/) and the more I read her opinion the more I disagreed with her conclusions. I think her style is refreshing in… Continue Reading →
