Subject: DeLaSalle Education Center

• Aim4Peace hitting its targets

  In November, I wrote this story ("117 Homicides and Counting," November 18, 2008) about how dumb bureaucracy and egotism was getting in the way of Aim4Peace, the city's new anti-violence program. Despite using a template that was successful across the nation and being run by dedicated people like Tracie Mclendon, the program just couldn't get the financial support it needed or hire the people it wanted to. But if today's numbers are true, the program's saving lives.

  March 11, 2009

• KC: Big Small Town

  Though it’s a city of nearly 2 million people, the metro can feel a lot like Mayberry.

  September 25, 2008

• Nice Bum

  It’s open season on the Snow Creek ski instructors.

  November 4, 2004

• Troost Colors

  It takes an unusual type of person to buy property on troost - a fact city codes inspectors don't thoroughly appreciate.

  April 17, 2003

• La Familia

  Neglected by the Kansas City School District, Latino students graduate from a home of their own.

  January 23, 2003

• COMBAT by the numbers

  U.S. Department of JusticeThis is what $207 million in drug money looks like​Given that the campaign to renew the COMBAT tax is in full swing, we figured it was time to look at the numbers. Ready? Here's the breakdown of how $10,487,768 of your tax dollars -- 2009's COMBAT anti-drug tax fund -- was doled out among local agencies.(The agencies are categorized by the COMBAT goal they serve: Prevention, Treatment, D.A.R.E. and Law Enforcement. There's a 2009 grant match for which some agencies al

  October 28, 2009