Subject: University of Missouri System

• The Mayor Wants Volunteers? We've Got One

  April 20, 2007

• UMKC May Fire Labor Supporter

  June 19, 2007

• Sometimes one must eat at the bar – so pull up a stool

  November 20, 2008

• McBama and OCain: It's not what you think

  October 8, 2008

• Stealing Time: Tevis, Flanny, Herm

  By JUSTIN KENDALL Sean Tevis didn't win a seat in the Kansas Legislature, but the guy was still a campaign phenom. The latest from his campaign site is the story of taking his blog down after 10 years because his opponent would most surely use any and all silly photos against him in attack ads. "I felt like I was removing a part of myself," Tevis writes. "At least I know why politicians always seem so bland — they’ve done a good job sanitizing their life. Or, at least, they don’t live in

  November 14, 2008

• Will Chase Daniel be a "quarterback problem" victim?

  Predicting which college quarterbacks will make great NFL quarterbacks is nearly impossible. For every Peyton Manning there are more Ryan Leafs. The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell wrote about "the quarterback problem" in his December 15 piece, "Most Likely to Succeed" and used University of Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel as his case study question mark.

  December 23, 2008

• Off the Couch

  February 1, 2001

• Putting local back into food

  I attended the 2009 Healthy Food Policy Forum yesterday not knowing what to expect. The event, at the American Royal, covered many subjects but the main one was changing laws in both Kansas and Missouri to take advantage of local food. As keynote speaker Marion Nestle (yes, that Marion Nestle) explained, "The Midwest, Kansas, is where the farmers are. There's opportunities to put these principles in practice more than people on the East Coast because of the land."The 200 or so attendees were fir

  February 13, 2009

• Best Star Avoidance of a Curse Word

  October 9, 2003

• Justice for jerks: Shields' brother in town with doc

  Photo by Angela C. BondDonald ShieldsAt the Oscars, Bill Maher encouraged film fans to watch more documentaries. Project Save Justice, showing here Sunday, is not the best place to start, however.Retired professor Donald C. Shields will be in town with a short documentary about the politically motivated prosecutions conducted by the Bush Justice Department. A professor emeritus at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, Shields and a co-author studied federal investigations of local officials a

  February 27, 2009

• Fun with UMKC's police blotter: The Drunkorexic Edition!

  It was almost exactly a year ago that alarmist, news-magazine types were farting out articles about the newest health problem facing today's young people: drunkorexia! Even The New York Times got in on the deliciously dangerous issue, which now seems totally overblown. Since it was being discussed on the coasts a year ago, it makes sense that drunkorexia should take this long to stumble inland and collapse, exhausted, on the stoop of the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Behold, the proof, in

  March 3, 2009

• Night & Day Events

  January 27, 2005

• Claire McCaskill makes Time magazine's list of celeb Tweeters

  On this Follow Friday, Time magazine released a list of the top 10 celeb Twitter feeds, and Missouri Sen. Claire "Bear" McCaskill made the list, which includes Britney Spears, Shaquille O'Neal, the Dalai Lama, Snoop Dogg and, of course, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Why?Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill is one of the most followed politicans [sic] on Twitter, largely because she actually reveals herself in her posts. She talks about her diet, her family, her frustration about bank CEO pay and e

  June 5, 2009

• UMKC confronts homelessness

  Students at the University of Missouri- Kansas City may be going hungry today. As part of its Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, the campus chapter of the NAACP is asking class-goers to skip a meal and drop what they would have spent into a collection bucket for Harvesters food pantry. It's not the group's only effort this week to get the urban campus involved in aiding the city's homeless population. Last night, residents from the City Union Mission shared their stories during a tearful

  March 17, 2009

• The next big thing: booze-flavored popcorn

  Remember the name Cary Silverman. The 22-year-old senior at the University of Missouri may not be the next Bill Gates, but he's definitely going to be somebody. This business management major from Kansas City  watched a couple of friends sneak booze into a movie screening so they could sip liquor with their popcorn and had an epiphany: alcohol-flavored popcorn! It may not be the greatest marketing idea, but it was an idea and Silverman went straight to work on making it a reality.

  March 24, 2009

• Hate-watch group tried to bump Kris Kobach from congressional testimony

  Kris KobachLast year, officials from the Missouri State Highway Patrol received training from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that gave them the authority to conduct immigration investigations and detain undocumented migrants. Where do local cops get off executing immigration law? Well, in 1996 Congress passed a law with a provision called 287(g) that opened the door for county and state officials to take a class, sign an agreement and essentially become a local arm of ICE. That progra

  April 7, 2009

• Sold-Out Showdown

  November 27, 2008

• Missouri biologist Frederick vom Saal and his team exposed the dangers of bisphenol A — and earned the wrath of the plastic industry.

  April 24, 2008

• Letters for the week of April 3

  April 3, 2008

• A college drop-out abandons a lucrative tech career for a life of inner-city poverty – and hopes to save an urban school district from oblivion

  February 21, 2008

• Border War at the Bar

  November 22, 2007

• Night & Day Events

  Week of September 30, 2004

  September 30, 2004

• Cheese Nuts

  When you leave Kansas City and marry a former child star 16 years your junior, there’s only one thing that can save you.

  April 26, 2007

• Lost in Translation

  Ask a Mexican

  August 17, 2006

• Made in Missouri

  August 10, 2006

• The Last Laugh

  The Improv's open-mike comedy night stands up but not necessarily out.

  October 20, 2005

• Swimming With Sharky

  Grades behind in your studies? The Kansas City, Missouri, School District recommends a little Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul.

  March 3, 2005

• Cat Power

  MU hosts a flippin' big gym party.

  February 24, 2005

• Night & Day Events

  Week of May 13, 2004

  May 13, 2004

• Children Left Behind

  Once again, adults try to end Kansas City's desegregation case.

  May 22, 2003

• Nasty Girls

  The Lyric's One False Move sounds frighteningly true.

  February 27, 2003

• Hey, Big Spencer

  His last name's Laurie, but don't let that fool you.

  January 16, 2003

• The SOFA Awards!

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

  January 2, 2003

• Best in the West

  The champions at Blue Springs get ready to Rock.

  November 14, 2002

• Game On

  Division II football stars say to hell with the Big 12.

  November 7, 2002

• Return Of The Prophets

  October 10, 2002

• Fun Versus Funds

  High-school football teams pad athletic budgets.

  August 29, 2002

• The Long Walk Home

  Twenty-five years ago this week, the Kansas City school district started making a $2 billion mistake-and blacks are still paying.

  May 23, 2002

• Go West, Young Man

  Mizzou lures a black trailblazer from St. Louis.

  March 28, 2002

• Gutted or Glutted

  The draft could ditch KU's dynasty dreams.

  February 28, 2002

• Tiger Lilies

  A gilded Mizzou lacks precious mettle.

  February 7, 2002

• Swish List

  Sports fans seek a gift from the tall guys.

  December 20, 2001

• Lessons in Finance

  To understand the school district's latest controversy, you have to follow the money.

  November 8, 2001

• Bacon Beacon

  Jellyfish take a shine to the other white meat.

  October 25, 2001

• Brain Wash

  Chancellor Martha Gilliland takes UMKC on a long, strange trip.

  September 20, 2001

• Bad Impressions

  Visitors who studied the Kansas City Art Institute came away with a negative image.

  June 28, 2001

• Ashes to Ashcroft

  The attorney general appoints himself editor-in-chief.

  May 10, 2001

• A Market Economy

  The Troost Community Market offers an alternative to convenience stores.

  May 3, 2001

• One of the Ethics Professors is -- shockingly -- not boring at all!

  Clancy Martin is a professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He's also one-half of the Ethics Professors, a regular feature on Walt Bodine's morning radio show. And according to an interesting piece in this week's Newsweek, the prof just published a novel stuffed with true-crime called How to Sell, the meat of which is somewhat autobiographical.

  May 8, 2009

• MU professor Abdullahi Ibrahim is ready to bring democracy to Sudan

  July 16, 2009