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C.W. Gusewelle

Promise of passing from bitter to better season

By C.W. GUSEWELLE

The Kansas City Star

On a slate-gray morning between cold rains, a gang of robins passed through. These were not the cheery robins of spring, whose arrival my mother always announced with something like a song in her voice.

COMMUNITY FACES


This KCKCC Phi Theta Kappa quintet turned last weekend as the 55th Street Heartland Habitat ReStore held its annual electronic-equipment recycling drive Saturday. More photos from this and other events in the Kansas City area can be found at Community Faces, our online scrapbook of people having fun. Watch for our photographers around town, and you might see your face here.

Steve Penn

D.C. delegate has high hopes for Voting Rights Act

By STEVE PENN

The Kansas City Star

WASHINGTON | With the recent election of President-elect Barack Obama, Eleanor Holmes Norton, the delegate for the District of Columbia, predicts that the passage of the D.C. Voting Rights Act will occur sometime next year.

Mike Hendricks

Welcome to Kansas GOP’s version of Stalin’s purges

By MIKE HENDRICKS

The Kansas City Star

The presumption of innocence might be the foundation of American jurisprudence. But you’re guilty until proved innocent in today’s Kansas Republican Party.

Mary Sanchez

GOP must get serious about more women candidates

By MARY SANCHEZ

The Kansas City Star

The burning question of the recent presidential campaign, as cynics put it, was this: “Is the U.S. more sexist or racist?”

Steve Kraske

With Election ’08 in the books, there are new plots to follow

By STEVE KRASKE

The Kansas City Star

You love me when all things politics are hot. Don’t forget me in July. •All you Missourians still stewing over those long Election Day lines can just keep stewing.

Good Connections

Youth program blends academics, athletics and life skills

By DEBRA SKODACK

The Kansas City Star

Deron Jones glances at the mural he created, and a modest smile breaks across his young face. “I can’t believe I did it,” the 16-year-old Grandview High School junior says of his work on a wall at the Education First, Athletics Second Coalition.

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C.W. Gusewelle
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Steve Penn
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