BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — College students squeezed by a massive housing shortage and surging rents are paying too much for moldy apartments, commuting long distances or sleeping in their cars to get an education — and that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon.
I’m all for Elon Musk kicking the numerous and annoying ads off Twitter, though how he makes the business continue to work without them is unclear. The bigger issue is running off the fake accounts and streams of disinformation.
Delta Air Lines, which has narrowly fought off several attempts to unionize its flights attendants, will begin paying cabin crews during boarding, a first for a major U.S. airline and a change that is expected to increase their wages by several thousand dollars a year.
Doris I. Murphy, 92 of Kansas City, MO passed away April 13, 2022.
Floyd L. “Buddy” Jessick, 71, of Buckner, MO passed away Monday, April 18, 2022, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Blue Springs. Cremation is planned with a memorial gathering at a later date. Floyd was born August 1, 1950, in Independence, MO to John and Wanda (Done) Jessick and has been a lifelong area resident. He served in the Marine Corp during Vietnam. He had worked as a truck driver for Barclay Asphalt and Metro Trucking for over 30 years. He was a simple man who enjoyed spending time with his family. He is survived by; his wife Rhonda Jessick of the home; a son, Clayton Jessick of Independence, MO; a granddaughter, Macy Jo Jessick of Independence, MO; 4 siblings, Gilbert Jessick, Melissa Gaitan and Sandy Heflin all of Buckner, MO and John Paul Jessick of California and a sister-in-law, Sandy Heflin of Buckner. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Karen Jessick in 2008. Online condolences may be expressed at www.speakschapel.com (Arrangements: Speaks Buckner Chapel (816) 650-5555)
Vaunda Rae May, 80, of Blue Springs, Mo passed away Thursday, April 21, 2022, at St. Luke’s East Hospital in Lee’s Summit, MO. Funeral services will be at 12:00 p.m., Saturday, April 30, 2022 at The life Church, 10400 View High Dr. #2282, Kansas City, MO 64134 with burial to follow in Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, MO. The family will greet friends from 11:00 a.m., until service time Saturday at the church.
Conservative Cassville Republican Emory Melton, a state senator from 1973 to 1997, didn’t like it when new programs with ongoing costs ended up in Missouri’s budget. “There’s nothing that approaches eternal life on this earth like a government program,” he told an oral history interviewer in 1996.
Long before the 12th annual Gary Parker Invitational track and field meet ended, coach Joe Cusack knew his Blue Springs High School boys were going to earn their 10th championship. But he had no idea what was going to happen before his favorite race, the 4x400-meter relay.
ST. LOUIS -- Walk down to the Gateway Arch on one of these beautiful spring days and it’s hard to miss the improvements made in the past few years: The park that now ferries visitors across the highway. The striking new glass and steel entrance to the new museum. The waterfront, elevated and broadened to be enlivened with food stands in the summertime.
When President Joe Biden took office last year, he had three top foreign policy priorities: to revive NATO and other alliances that President Donald Trump had savaged, to withdraw the last American troops from Afghanistan, and to compete more effectively with a newly assertive China.