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Kansas City Mayoral Race

I chose not to get involved in this year’s critically important Kansas City Mayoral race due to the health of a good friend and former candidate Albert Reiderer.  As you may recall, Albert ran 4 years ago finishing 3rd and barely missing the runoff between Mark Funkhouser and Alvin Brooks.  If he had made that [...]

Obama and 2011

2011 will be the year that we learn if President Obama learned anything in the first two years of office.  He came in with little experience but was indoctrinated by fire inheriting the financial crisis and fiscal mess left by the Bush Administration and two wars.  All continue today. The mid terms said a lot [...]

A Report from the Heartland

Midterm elections are almost always difficult for the party in charge but…2010 is a whopper. President Obama deserves most of the responsibility too. I agree with Truman. The buck stops there. Given the financial crisis he inherited and near depression like recession, I am not sure you take on fundamental healthcare reform at all. The banking industry had to come first, followed by the economy. Within that framework he could have interjected both energy, housing and healthcare as they are all central and critical to our entire economy.