Kansas City Star | Barbara Shelly

Barbara Shelly

It’s that time of year for taking stock. Who’s in and out, up or down, that sort of thing.

Please drop everything else as you read this
12/25/2008 09:22 PM
My left hand held the phone. My right hand pecked at the computer keyboard. On the phone, my mom was talking about her weekend, the elections, the family, the usual. On the computer, I was looking up MapQuest directions to get to an evening activity.
Communities will feel loss as newspapers fade
12/18/2008 10:07 PM
A long time ago, I helped save a fish shop. It was on a grimy corner of Syracuse, N.Y. City zoning policies had led to rampant vagrancy in the neighborhood.
Flashes of the old Funk are all that’s left
12/11/2008 08:40 PM
Say this for Mark Funkhouser: He’s not one to duck questions. The Wall Street Journal wants an interview, he grants one. “Good Morning America” comes calling, he’s wide awake. Lawyers want to depose the mayor as part of the discrimination and harassment suit filed against him by an ex-employee, he’ll spill his life’s story.