Subject: Joseph Smith

• A KC Councilman wants $30 million for Kemper Arena. What’s reality got to do with it?

  March 26, 2009

• High times foiled near Cameron

  A federal judge sentenced a Kansas City man today to 11 years and three months in federal prison for running a marijuana-growing operation in Daviess County, which is holy land but I don't think Joseph Smith was growing weed. In July, a federal jury found 30-year-old Jhanmay Molina-Perez guilty of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana between May 1 to October 31, 2006, on a 22-acre property that he was renting near Cameron. The operation went south after a neighbor heard gunshots and found a coupl

  March 12, 2009

• Mitt and Mexicans

  Did you know that the Book of Mormon requires amnesty for illegals?

  January 10, 2008

• letters from the week of September 20

  September 20, 2007

• The Search for the Garden of Eden

  Mitt Romney and his fellow mormons believe that Adam ate the forbidden fruit in Independence.

  September 6, 2007

• Whole Lotta Love

  March 16, 2006

• Ball Busters

  Filmmakers Kevin Willmott and Rick Cowan changed the course of history. Now they're telling Wilt Chamberlain's tall tale.

  September 8, 2005

• Dr. Hydrogen

  Roger Billings is obsessed with the simplest of atoms. And he knows we will be, too, eventually.

  January 20, 2005

• Christmas in Hell

  The Sheffield Family Life Center’s annual pageant is a heartwarming little tale starring machine guns and the Antichrist.

  December 16, 2004

• Crazy gibberish scrawled on van fails to spark religious conversion

  Following a tip about a van covered in apocalyptic prophecy, I traveled to Independence in search of some good crazy. I wasn't able to find the mind behind the mystic van of prophecy, but I was able to find the vehicle itself. And, as promised, it's pretty wacky. The van covered with dire warnings of God's wrath has been parked at the corner of Lexington and River in Independence for months now. To actually quote it would be to assault the reader, so let's just leave it at this: The world's

  September 1, 2009

• What is the Community of Christ?

  Burrell Mohler Sr.​The sickening allegations against Burrell Mohler Sr. and four of his sons have brought unwelcome attention to the Community of Christ, a church that's headquartered in Independence. Mohler and two of his sons, David Mohler and Jared Mohler, are lay ministers in the church. (Saying the allegations were being taken seriously, the church suspended the individuals' "priesthood licenses.")At times like these, it's perhaps helpful to remind ourselves what the Community of Christ i

  November 13, 2009