Independence will have a couple of fresh perspectives on the City Council heading into some big decisions and some big issues that deserve more council attention. Voters elected a new mayor, Rory Rowland, re-elected Council Member Karen DeLuccie and elected a new council member, Jared Fears.
The races for Independence mayor and the City Council produced some good conversation about any number of community needs. One mayoral candidate pressed hard on his contention that there’s a significant problem with vehicles without license tags all over town.
In 2012, Vladimir Putin took his media corps out to an Arctic peninsula in Siberia to showcase his leadership prowess for all the world to see. Then he dressed up like a bird, donning a billowy white suit and white helmet, climbed into a motorized whitewinged hang glider along with a skilled pilot.
While the U.S. casts about for some way to bring more pressure on Russia without joining the war in Ukraine, Bing West, former U.S. assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan, has a plan. We think the Biden administration should listen.
In the nearly 15 months since the Capitol insurrection, some major corporations have backtracked significantly on their pledge to deny campaign funding to the 147 members of Congress who voted against certification of the 2020 presidential election result. Just to be clear: 147 members of Congress deliberately sought to undermine American democracy and subvert a legitimate presidential election to advance Donald Trump’s lie that the election was stolen.
Joanne Huff, Independence To my son Mike Huff: You have grown up to be a fine man. As your mother, I could not be prouder.
Corbin McConnell, Independence To the editor: The school system needs to add better food. Kids every year don’t like the food; some kids may not eat the food and starve.
To the editor: I read restaurant inspections in The Examiner. We have mostly sanitary conditions and a few that need better cleaning.
Gerald Wilson, Independence To the editor: Some observations on the Northpoint project and the Little Blue expressway need to be made. First, Northpoint is neither evil or good for that matter.
Ron Finke, Independence To the editor: Independence has waited for decades to receive an opportunity as important and valuable as the proposed Eastgate project. I often think of the tens of thousands in Eastern Jackson County driving every day to Kansas and wish we had jobs for them here.