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Muny Opens Season with A Musical Classic

2 years 3 months ago

The Muny’s Stunning Sets, Stellar Score makes for Sensational Season Opening For “Les Miserables”    by Pat Lindsey               The Muny has opened its 106th season with the granddaddy of all musicals, “Les Miserables.”This is the third time this beloved powerhouse of a play has    been presented on The […]

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Lunchtime Photo

2 years 3 months ago
Sea lions mesmerize me. This one was swimming loops in its pool, and it's hard to imagine anything more aerodynamic when they pull in their front flippers and glide underwater before surfacing. I could watch all day. NOTE: Yes, hydrodynamic is the proper term. But outside of a fluid dynamics class who's ever heard of ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
Kevin Drum

How close are we to a nuclear Middle East?

2 years 3 months ago
The Washington Post reports that Iran is expanding uranium enrichment at its Fordow nuclear facility: Fordow had ceased making enriched uranium entirely under the terms of the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear agreement. Iran resumed making the nuclear fuel there shortly after the Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from the accord in 2018. Is anyone ever going ...continue reading "How close are we to a nuclear Middle East?"
Kevin Drum

Kansas lawmakers approve tax incentive bill to lure Chiefs, Royals away from Missouri

2 years 3 months ago
The Kansas City Royals and Chiefs could receive hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to move from Missouri and build new stadiums across the state line under legislation passed Tuesday by Kansas lawmakers. The Kansas House voted 84-38 and the Senate voted 27-8 to approve legislation that would expand a state incentive program in an attempt to lure one or both teams from Kansas City. The bill now heads to Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, who said in a statement following the Senate…
Allison Kite

Home of Mark Twain's mentor for sale in Lafayette Square

2 years 3 months ago
Among the early homebuilders in Lafayette Square was steamboat pilot Horace Ezra Bixby. Born in Geneseo, New York, in 1826, Bixby went on to become a prodigious pilot, securing pilot licenses for the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers.
Kevin S. Held