Romney remains the GOP's best bet
One year from today, the 2012 Republican National Convention opens in Tampa, Fla. Today's question is: Whom will the GOP be nominating during its four-day extravaganza?
View ArticleSome trace AMC loss to a lapse in Jefferson City
You know by now that AMC Entertainment is leaving downtown Kansas City to move to Leawood. What you may not know is that it might not have needed to happen.
View ArticleObama visit presents McCaskill with a dilemma
For Andy Blunt, the moment was almost too perfect. "Unbelievable," he would say later.
View ArticleFor Nixon, an episode that's not so sweet
One thing you can say about Jay Nixon's tenure as Missouri governor is how relatively free it has been of scandals and big blunders. The Democrat has navigated the ship of state through some mighty...
View ArticleKansas Senate fight will define our future
If I wrote a column about the Kansas Senate, would you still read it? Let's find out.
View ArticleEnergizer Nixon looking past 2012
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon wasn't complaining about the lack of sleep, but he didn't have to. You just knew he was tired. In Kansas City on Tuesday morning following an eight-day trade mission to China...
View ArticleSteve Kraske | GOP an undisciplined party in disarray
You know how little kids always scribble outside the lines in their coloring books? In my mind, that was always the Democrats. Things were always a jumble, always a mess. Not this year.
View ArticleSteve Kraske | In Osawatomie, Obama found his campaign groove
Almost everyone agreed that President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday in Osawatomie, Kan., was -- at six minutes short of a full hour -- too long.
View ArticleSteve Kraske | The knives come out against Gingrich
We learned in Iowa that Newt Gingrich can't take a punch. It only makes sense that he can't take a flurry of them either.
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