Subject: Emanuel Cleaver

• Cleaver vs. Obama, Day 2

  April 2, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Missouri Tourism, Smoking Ban, Infographics

  June 23, 2008

• KC featured on GMA again (this time, not embarrassing)

  Good Morning America returns to Kansas City tomorrow morning. This time, they're not here to broadcast our embarrassment -- codependent Mayor Mark Funkhouser and his sexual-innuendo spewing wife, Gloria Squitiro -- to the rest of the nation. Tomorrow's GMA unveils Kansas City's holiday window display at the morning show's Times Square studio. Kansas City's Convention & Visitors Association buddied up with Hallmark Cards to design the window, one of three (this year's lineup also includes Atl

  December 2, 2008

• GMA unveils KC window, Cleaver's plugs

  Earlier this morning, Good Morning America unveiled Kansas City's holiday window at its Times Square studio. KC got the center window treatment because we represent "middle America, the heart of our country." Missouri U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver pulled back the curtain, unveiling five giant Keepsake Ornaments (courtesy of Hallmark, which partnered with the Kansas City Convention & Visitors Association on the project), along with his own new 'do. A national audience went, Damn! That's what we c

  December 3, 2008

• Kansas City Strip

  August 23, 2001

• Scarlet Letters

  November 15, 2001

• Lights Out

  April 25, 2002

• Brownback: Forward to the 1940s! And the 1980s!

  Catching up on my reading over the weekend, I spent some time with The Kansas City Star's 14-page special section commemorating Barack Obama's inauguration. Headlined on the cover "For America, a New Day," it contained reports on the historic day in Washington, a transcript of Obama's speech, comments from random Kansas Citians, an Associated Press report on the first couple's fashion choices and lots of cool photos.I was most interested, though, in the thoughts of a handful of leaders that the

  January 26, 2009

• You Make The Call

  March 13, 2003

• The Give-a-Shit List

  This week: Make sure your tax dollars don't get swallowed in the endless abyss of discontent between the City Council and Mayor Mark Funkhouser, catch a ride with the ACLU to short-circuit the death penalty and get a personal performance from a local band to help out your friendly community radio station.

  February 16, 2009

• Water Pressure

  February 26, 2004

• Ballot Boxed

  July 15, 2004

• Render Unto Cleaver ...

  July 22, 2004

• Call and Response

  February 24, 2005

• Cuba: Are we there yet?

  I want to go to Cuba -- and not just because this Kansas City winter won't end. I've always wanted to go to Cuba. I want to see for myself what the big deal is about the place that's tormented our politicians all these years. I want to see the crumbling architecture that once looked so cool. I want to breathe the sultry air (it's 84 and sunny as I write this), drink cafe con leche and listen to some of the music I've come to love. I want to see communism up close, so I can make my own judgments

  April 2, 2009

• Daily Briefs: The only snotty news summary you will ever need.

  BULLETED WHATEVER IN BRIEF: Recreational drinkers at La Cygne Reservoir in La Cygne, Kansas will have to conceal their cans of malt liquor in paper sacks from now on, pending the enactment of some unfun new regulations. A Baptist minister in St. Joe learned the hard way that all preteen girls on the internet are actually police officers with an interest in Hannah Montana and Juicy brand couture. Pirates are not actually charming androgynous rogues, it turns out. The Midwest is studying a

  April 9, 2009

• In Defense of Hemp

  August 28, 2008

• Loss Leader

  February 7, 2008

• Killa City: Raytown police seeking tips in quadruple homicide

  Congressman Emanuel Cleaver and Alvin Brooks pleaded with the public today for tips that will help solve the Raytown quadruple homicide. The bodies of 21-year-old Precious Triplett, 33-year-old Andre D. Jones, 10-year-old Amir Clemons and 7-year-old Gerard Clemons were discovered in an apartment near 61st Street and Raytown Road in March. "Here we are with two children almost babies 7 and 10 in addition to two adults who were brutally murdered," Brooks said. "I know that none of us could imagine

  April 15, 2009

• Swim Free

  May 24, 2007

• Pick One!

  February 15, 2007

• Crazy Train

  October 26, 2006

• Done Deal

  September 14, 2006

• Six-Gun Stan

  He’s everybody’s buddy, and if he can watch what he says, he might have a shot at City Hall.

  April 20, 2006

• Bully Pulpit

  Letters from the week of

  February 9, 2006

• She's No Martin

  January 26, 2006

• Union Haul

  September 8, 2005

• Road Rage

  More people are fuming over traffic lights on Bruce R. Watkins Drive.

  May 26, 2005

• The Gza Strip

  Hip-hop strikes familiar chords in our Israeli sister city.

  January 6, 2005

• Calling All Sinners

  Down a Jesus wafer at these local churches.

  December 23, 2004

• Backwash

  We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.

  October 28, 2004

• The Preach and the Prep

  Cleaver and Metzl start to make this August’s primary look like a real fight.

  July 1, 2004

• Dude Where's the Party

  Local Democrats cross political lines to support their favorite pork producer — Senator Kit Bond.

  January 8, 2004

• An Inside Job

  Dianne Cleaver's connections didn't get her a job. That would be wrong.

  December 4, 2003

• Nace Baiting

  Wesley Fields has been anointed by lawyers and the black establishment, but if he wants Becky Nace's city council seat, he'll have to get past Mary Kelly.

  February 13, 2003

• Nothing For Dinner

  Al Fleming is in charge of bringing new business to 18th and Vine. But he's inspiring some sour notes.

  May 2, 2002

• Clever Cleaver

  The former KC mayor hopes to clean up in Grandview with urban loans.

  April 4, 2002

• The Redevelopment Blues

  Kansas City has made an investment in the 18th and Vine Historic District. Isn't it about time it starts paying off?

  June 1, 2000

• Leave it to Cleaver

  Former Kansas City mayor Emanuel Cleaver takes the stage at Union City every Friday morning to host Kansas City's live radio show.

  May 4, 2000

• Good for the soul

  Three Friends Restaurant is a cozy, friendly restaurant that serves the kind of lovingly cooked, rib-sticking fare we now call soul food.

  March 30, 2000

• Chastain's next big fight: libel suits against The Star

  February 10, 2000

• More help on the way for 18th & Vine?

  A faint but strong heart beats for 18th and Vine. That much was obvious last Tuesday night, when a crowd packed the lobby of the Gem Theater to take part in what might sound like one of the most boring activities of good citizenship: a city planning meeting. At least a hundred people showed up to hear what City Hall had in mind for the district -- and  listening to City Hall talk about 18th and Vine can be emotionally risky. After all, it's been a long time since Emanuel Cleaver's administr

  June 29, 2009

• Congressman Cleaver retires as pastor of KC church

  After 37 years in the ministry, the Rev. Emanuel Cleaver II hung up his pastor's robes over the weekend. For years, U.S. Rep. Cleaver had commuted from Washington, D.C., to conduct weekly service at St. James United Methodist Church. On Sunday, the congregation crowded the pews for his last sermon. "I struggled whether I would make it through the service," Cleaver told Fox 4 news. The church leadership will stay in the family. Cleaver passed the torch to his son, Emanuel III.

  June 29, 2009

• Ask a protester: Why not reform health care?

  Congressman Emanuel CleaverStanding with a group of protesters outside U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's office on Friday afternoon, Matt Ullman worried that his sign -- "Born free. Died waiting for health care" -- sent a mixed message."I picked that one, and now I'm kind of wondering if it reads right," he said.Ullman was troubled that motorists who passed Cleaver's office on W. 31st St. might think he wanted the federal government to take a more active role in the administration of the nation's heal

  July 20, 2009

• Cleaver's other healthcare town hall meeting -- the civil one

  ​You'd never know it from watching the news, but there has been some actual town-hall-style dialogue about the complicated medical, economic and policy issues surrounding healthcare reform. When Congressman Emanuel Cleaver tried to hold one of his regular meetings with constituents last week, protesters converged on the Lee's Summit coffeehouse with a vengeance, demanding that their voices be heard. Why do we think the loudmouth contingent might not be all that happy to know that actually, Cle

  August 17, 2009

• 17 things we learned this week

  ​1. Flavored cigs are going bye-bye.2. Congressman Emanuel Cleaver held a civil town hall meeting.3. Former Missouri Gov. Warren E. Hearnes died.4. David Cross is going to get fucked up in KC in September.5. Kit Bond: Joke thief.6. The most important video of our time -- of an alien peeking through a window -- was unveiled. 7. KU's J-school dean isn't sexist. 8. Alexander Austin wants his Michael Jackson mural to be perfect.9. Fox 4 is ready for a zombie apocalypse. Save us, Phil Witt.10. Wres

  August 21, 2009

• A sick, toxic summer of health care ends in a trip to the surgery center

  September 3, 2009

• Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's health-care campaign contributions

  ​Considering where this series began -- with Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts' $525,000 in campaign contributions from the health-care industry -- it ends on a number that's almost pathetic by contrast. When I started counting campaign contributions earlier this month, Roberts was the first; his amount struck me as outrageous (Roberts sits on the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, so I wasn't surprised that medical interests were heavily invested in his work). I didn't know what

  September 2, 2009

• One Missouri Republican votes to rebuke Joe Wilson's 'You lie' outburst

  Joe Wilson​Congress voted yesterday on a resolution denouncing South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie" outburst during President Obama's speech to Congress. The resolution passed 240-179, and locally the vote fell on party lines, except one Missouri Republican: Jo Ann Emerson. The New York Times reported how every representative voted, and here's the breakdown. Joining Emerson in condemining Wilson's attempt to turn the address into British Parliament were Kansas Rep. Dennis Moore and Misso

  September 16, 2009

• Slideshow: Ailey II performance at The Folly

  On Friday night, the Folly Theater was full of men and women in tuxedos and ball gowns, sipping wine and greeting each other with kisses on the cheek. The audience for Ailey II was a who's who of city elite: Congressman Emanuel Cleaver; Tom McDonnell, CEO of DST Systems; Kansas City City Manager Wayne Cauthen. Photo by Nicole Reinertson​But those weren't the VIPs at this performance. Up in the balcony, the back rows of the renovated venue were packed with kids in jeans and parkas, all

  October 26, 2009