Part II: Further Down the Yellow Brick Road
So this article might feel like a real doozy for some, but for me, it makes perfect sense and the reason why I decided to drop this article off on…
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RAGE OVER AGE
Four more years of Donald J. Trump HAS AMERICA BY THE GENITALS. Weare at the desperate fate of having to choose between two evils an aged president versus a feloniously…
Italian Politics in Kansas City
Growing up in Northeast Kansas City in the 70’s we were surrounded by many Italian American politicians who had the best interest of Italian Americans in their actions. Today the…
Fact or Fiction: Republic or Democracy?
By B. Michael Long Fact is often stranger than fiction. When diving into the complex and often convoluted relationship between the de facto Democratic corporate fiction known as the UNITED…
OVERACHIEVERS
12% of the population of KC is Black and Brown but 38.5%of Mayor and City Council are Black and Brown. Add in the lone Hispanic and it goes up to…
“Trump World!!!!”
Four more years of Donald J. Trump will mean the end of Democracy and the beginning of the New World Order and that means it will be tyranny for any…
The Problem with Dottie
By Marchel Alverson The sixth-grader’s t-shirt danced in front of her eyes as soon as Donetta “Dottie” Kennedy entered into Ms. Alexander’s third-floor classroom. Ms. Alexander hadn’t realized she was…
Our Crisis Of Identity
As a so-called African-American in America, I have always felt a deep, unsettling sense of dislocation. My early years were spent on the east side of Kansas City in the…