In his masterful biography The Power Broker, Robert Caro describes how New York City’s “master builder” Robert Moses, became a master destroyer of communities because of a fundamental misunderstanding.
The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed a bill to reform how Congress certifies electors after a presidential election. That bill (or a similar but slightly weaker Senate one) needs to pass the Senate now.
succession of bands. I was proud of him.
January 20, 1949 was a memorable day for Independence, as the city’s most famous resident, Harry S. Truman, was sworn in as president of the United States. Unfortunately, early that same morning, just hours before the inaugural ceremonies began in Washington, a fire destroyed several buildings in downtown Independence.
The U.S. record on protecting our children is abysmal.
The imprudent decision this week to lower the voter-approved levy of the Mid-Continent Public Library system and force budget cuts is disturbing. The voters approved a higher levy six years ago so each branch in the system would be upgraded or replaced.
Tomorrow, Lord willing (as my grandad would say) and if the creek don’t rise (as my grandmother would add) I will fly all day to go spend a week hugging necks in the Carolinas. In the 12 years my husband and I lived in Las Vegas, I flew once or twice a month to speak at events or visit our children.
Just two days after taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama ordered the shutdown of Guantanamo. The detention compound at the U.S. naval base on the southern coast of Cuba was built to hold militants captured in the course of the post-9/11 war on terror. But by the time of Obama’s ascent to the White House, Guantanamo had become synonymous with hypocrisy.
Despite widespread outcry, the governors of Florida and Texas say they will continue to bus or fly more migrants to unexpected locations across the nation to raise awareness about the crisis at the border. Using vulnerable humans as pawns in a political game is morally wrong and further destabilizes an already dysfunctional immigration system.
A desperate Vladimir Putin is a dangerous Vladimir Putin, and there are signs Putin’s situation in Ukraine may be becoming desperate. The Russian army in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine has been driven out of some 2,200 square miles of territory, according to the Ukrainians, whose soldiers are two miles from the Russian border.