• adminadmin
  • November 8, 2017
  • 2 minutes Read
It wasn’t always like this

There was a time when Northeast had a model Crime Watch program (Northeast Mobile Crime Watch) that was funded by Jackson County COMBAT. That program worked directly with CAN (Community…

  • adminadmin
  • November 1, 2017
  • 3 minutes Read
Unacceptable

The body count continues to spiral upwards and this critically thinking News Dog, in 27 years of living in the HNE community, hasn’t seen the community’s homicide count this high…

  • adminadmin
  • October 25, 2017
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Wal-Marting the KCI campaign

Ask any community newspaper publisher in the state of Missouri about Walmart, and you’ll likely be met with a furrowed brow and a string of profanities about how the big-box…

  • adminadmin
  • October 11, 2017
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Honoring the fallen heroes of HNE

This week the Dog is taking a break from the critical analysis of public entities and their shortcomings to address a sad anniversary of sorts. It’s October, which means it’s time to…

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  • October 4, 2017
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Braggin’ Rights

It’s that time of year again when newspapers from across the state of Missouri get to return home from the annual Missouri Press Association convention, hopefully with some brass in…

  • adminadmin
  • September 27, 2017
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Same dance, different face

Last Friday Jackson County Executive Frank White announced that Teesha Miller, the County’s current Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) Director, would be the new Director of Jackson County COMBAT, the…

  • adminadmin
  • September 20, 2017
  • 3 minutes Read
Elections have consequences

Last month Kansas City voters sent a clear message to the Toy Train Streetcar expansion cronies that an expansion of any kind needed approval by a city-wide public referendum.  Streetcar…

  • adminadmin
  • September 13, 2017
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Haters Gonna Hate

Last week this news-canine caught wind of some citizen dissatisfaction targeting our local business community along Independence Avenue. We’re not talking about the normal things that Avenue businesses deal with…

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  • September 6, 2017
  • 3 minutes Read
Things that make you go hmmm

Comedian Arsenio Hall often did a bit on his show entitled ‘things that make you go hmmmm’, while pointing his index finger to the side of his head and giving…