Subject: Karen McCarthy

• Kansas City Strip

  November 16, 2000

• Grease Spots

  January 24, 2002

• Magic Bus

  June 26, 2003

• Bottoms Up

  July 3, 2003

• Royals Flushed

  October 2, 2003

• Sick Feeling

  The deputy chief yells "Fire!"

  November 22, 2001

• Real Loft Living

  May 3, 2007

• It's Sandersman!

  November 10, 2005

• The Preach and the Prep

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

  July 1, 2004

• Good Riddance

  We bid farewell to Jeremy and Taunia.

  April 8, 2004

• Lush Life

  Finally, one local Democrat promises that next year's primary won't be straight-up Karen McCarthy.

  September 4, 2003

• Power drunk

  The Star teetotals around the Karen McCarthy story.

  August 28, 2003

• Troy Wonder

  City Councilman Troy Nash is too busy to worry about campaign spending questions.

  July 24, 2003

• Party Crasher

  Now that she's earned her chair in AA, challengers might have a shot at Karen McCarthy's seat in Congress.

  June 19, 2003

• Dick Joke

  Not everything's up to date for Kansas City Democrats.

  June 12, 2003

• She Rules

  Among Democrats, Katheryn Shields has earned enough love to make up for years of screwed up tax bills.

  October 24, 2002

• Iraq and a Hard Place

  Protesters bear witness while Sam Brownback hibernates.

  August 22, 2002

• Red, White and Blues

  Kansas City puts on its war face.

  September 27, 2001

• Head Games

  The patients aren't the only ones doing crazy things at Western Missouri Mental Health.

  August 23, 2001

• Kidney recipient in a 'pay or die' situation

  Kidney-transplant patient Harold Allen spends a lot of time searching for money to buy the antirejection drugs he needs to stay alive.

  April 27, 2000

• Environmental group releases congressional scorecard

  Republicans are anti-environment and Democrats are pro-environment. That is the rhetoric heard in political campaigns everywhere. And with the publication of the League of Conservation Voters environmental scorecard, released last week by the Sierra Club,

  February 17, 2000

• Star profile of troubled ex-lawmaker with Alzheimer's hits the right tone

  Karen McCarthy in 2003Kansas City Star political writer Steve Kraske did a damn fine job profiling former Congresswoman Karen McCarthy in Sunday's paper. The profile walked a delicate line -- McCarthy has Alzheimer's disease, but her past as a once shining star of the Missouri Democratic Party was marred by ethics violations (dipping into campaign money to pay for a trip to the Grammys) and high staff turnover (she was tough to work for and had admitted problems with alcohol). Kraske wrote a sen

  July 6, 2009