Navigating the streets in downtown Kansas City is more difficult than ever these days. Broadway Boulevard’s pavement is torn up for resurfacing from Southwest Boulevard to Seventh Street. Road closures interrupt traffic all around the…

We don’t usually concern ourselves with the attire of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. The man’s, shall we say, colorful sartorial choices are his business (and his fiancée’s). But we feel compelled to…

Here’s one guarantee from Kansas Reflector: We’re not soaked in drugs and sent through the mail. That’s the curious claim made by the state Department of Corrections after it decided to cancel all print newspaper subscriptions purchased…

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said on the right-wing political commentator Benny Johnson’s podcast Wednesday. He was talking, of…

Remember the vaunted Trump-Putin summit? It was just a month ago this week, but Americans could be excused for having forgotten. Nothing good has come of it. The cringy Alaska photo-op for the American and…

Here is something all Americans can agree on, whatever their feelings on immigration enforcement: United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement should not be harassing, let alone detaining, citizens of the United States. Nor should that…

Voter registration booths manned by nonprofits are a staple of naturalization ceremonies in this country. It gives many freshly minted Americans a convenient opportunity to file the necessary paperwork to exercise their rights at the…

The most dangerous word in America right now just might be “they.”  See if this tragic pattern sounds familiar. Something awful happens. Everyone immediately jumps to blame “them” for causing it. Half the country picks…

Did we miss Congress’s authorization to use military force against Venezuelan drug-runners? On Monday, President Donald Trump announced a second strike this month against a vessel he said was carrying illegal drugs. An accompanying video…

There was something sadly fitting about the fact that Missouri Senate Republicans on Friday shut down legislative debate in order to ram through two momentous measures designed to deprive our state’s citizens of full and…