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  • March 28, 2018
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Race baiting 101

Last Friday afternoon the House of News received a release from the Kansas City, MO Police Department referencing a claim from a Kansas City, Kansas attorney named Atif Abdel-Khaliq, who…

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  • March 21, 2018
  • 3 minutes Read
The Bigger Picture

Last week thousands of children walked out of their schoolrooms en masse to ostensibly honor the 17 victims of the Stoneman-Douglas High School shooting in Florida. Had this action been…

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  • March 14, 2018
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Givin’ it up for Lent

The Dog has calmed a bit from last week’s rant about the City Council changing the PIAC ballot language in order to raid its coffers to prop up funding for…

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  • March 7, 2018
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PIAC isn’t PIAC Anymore

When originally passed in 1983, the city’s Public Improvements Advisory Committee’s (PIAC) duty was to direct 1% of the city’s sales tax revenue towards resident-requested public improvement projects. As a…

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  • February 28, 2018
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Time for the Gov to step aside.

Well, last week was certainly an eventful one for this news writing pooch. Between the Broward County Sheriff’s Department lack of action during a school shooting, to the Missouri Governor’s…

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  • February 21, 2018
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Armor up, teachers

Last week another school was shot up by some whack job with voices in his head that told him to do evil things. The bodies of the 17 victims weren’t…

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  • February 14, 2018
  • 3 minutes Read
The good, the bad, and the ugly

Some worthy tidbits for this week, Good, Bad and Ugly. On the Good side, this community journalism-minded canine would like to put a shout out to State Representative Ingrid Burnett…

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  • February 7, 2018
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Congratulations, Northeast!

If you took the time from your busy schedule to attend last Tuesday’s community forum at the old St. Steve’s gymnasium over in the Sheffield neighborhood, pat yourself on the…

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  • January 31, 2018
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We’re violence free. Hooray!

If you wasted 10 minutes of your valuable time on the most recent Violence Free KC survey, congratulations – that’s 10 minutes of your life you won’t get back. Not…

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  • January 24, 2018
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Keepin it real in the 64124

There was quite a bit of hubbub last year about a hack piece by the web site URBO that labeled the intersection of Independence Avenue and Prospect as one of the top…