Subject: Mike Fannin

• Whitlock vs. Playboy: The Star Columnist Comes Out Swinging, and the Magazine Responds

  May 2, 2008

• M. Night Shyamalan's Daily Briefs: The Suckening

  May 19, 2008

• Off the Couch

  June 28, 2001

• Donovan: Lokeman DUI arrest is news to us

  Photo from PBS.Rhonda Chriss LokemanKansas City Star reader representative Derek Donovan says no one in the newsroom at 18th and Grand knew that former columnist Rhonda Chriss Lokeman had been arrested for drunken driving. "It was news to me," Donovan wrote. "And as I discovered when I asked editors in the newsroom, nobody there knew about it there either, from the police/justice assistant city editor on up to editor and vice president Mike Fannin."Donovan explained that Star reporters don't fis

  February 3, 2009

• Big Sexy

  Jason Whitlock's pen gained him local fame (and a favorite nickname) -- then he took to the air.

  January 29, 2004

• The SOFA Awards!

  Here's a sports fan's agony and ecstacy, as experienced on the couch in 2002.

  January 2, 2003

• Star editor: 'We are not dying'

  Mike FanninYesterday -- as far as I can tell -- was the first time that Kansas City Star editor Mike Fannin spoke to readers since becoming editor in May 2008. Fannin weighed in on his shrinking newspaper. In these situations, we usually get publisher Mark Zieman spouting some less-than-reassuring gibberish about Ernest Hemingway and penetration. Instead, Fannin pulled on his big-boy pants, whipped out his pen and gave readers a pep talk about the smaller Star.Fannin called the contraction "belt

  April 7, 2009