Yes, we all know the Plaza lights were officially turned on last night. For some reason local newsie reports remind us of this fact.
Black Friday For Real: A woman dies in a rollover crash on Interstate 435, just west [...]
Tyler Cowen is blogging about a study that found No Child Left Behind to have improved student math scores but not reading scores. Cowen comments:
Math skills are more the result of drill, whereas you have to learn how to love to read and much of that happens within the [...]
And I thought they were talking about Teddy Roosevelt. [...]
I always thought Council Lady Cathy Jolly was universally beloved because she's a former cheerleader (I think) . . . It turns out that a great many in South Kansas City can't stand her or her Red Light Cameras.' [...] 
The Friends of the Kansas City Public Library will hold their annual Book Lovers Book Sale Thursday-Sunday. More than 10,000 books, videos, and audio books will be on sale for $3.00 or less. The sale happens at the Central Library (10th and Baltimore), and you can find [...]
In a moment of weakness, I thought her perspective on a marriage proposal was actually kind of sweet. [...] 
from people.com
If Levi Johnston would like a piece of the Palin family turkey, Sarah Palin will save him a seat at her Thanksgiving table.
"It's lovely to think that he would ever even consider such a thing," the former Alaska governor, 45, tells Oprah Winfrey in an interview to [...]
Before he was a national figure, ACORN Man was just a low level staffer with a love of spandex. Here is the story of his short-lived rise to power, beginning in a Metro link car in 2006.
Watch for the next installment, Green Jobs Man: The Return of ACORN.
And feel [...]
Talking Points Memo has posted a memo from Republican pollster Frank Luntz about public reaction to the health care reform package. Read it here.
Notice this on page 4:
"As Percy Sledge sang in the 1960s, the thrill is gone."
A 2009 study in the October issue of the Journal of Labor Economics finds that teacher unions have no effect on teacher pay.
Shocking! As the author, Michael Lovenheim of Stanford University, notes, these results aren’t expected. Unions negotiate for better work conditions and salary increases, so it’s a general [...]
Looking through Roy Blunt's Q3 campaign finance report, it looks like Blunt's efforts to court oil company lobbyists are still paying off. Blunt has a been a huge recipient of oil and gas industry donations (he ranked #8 in the entire House for the 2008 cycle, [...]
Less than a month after the federal ban on clove cigarettes began, a close substitute good, clove cigars, has hit the market.
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The D-bag at 12 & Main is posting: "It is rumored this morning that Laura Glover, wife of former City Council member Jim Glover passed a way this weekend of cancer." [...] 
