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Syndicated Columnist/Tribune KCStar and KansasCityPBS alum Mentor @Report4America [email protected]

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Así arrancó el Desfile de Día de Muertos en la Ciudad de México, con un recorrido que celebra las tradiciones mexicanas y rinde homenaje a los fallecidos. 📹 Marian Velázquez
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Wyandotte County has an unusual number of 'abandoned' cemeteries. Neighbors pitch in to maintain them thebeaconnews.org/stories/20…
These 18 abandoned cemeteries in Wyandotte County hold two centuries of local history

These 18 abandoned cemeteries in Wyandotte County hold two centuries of local history

“We don’t even have enough funds to have dignity for those who we’ve lost,” Unified Government Mayor Christal Watson said at a commission meeting in August, “and that’s a tragedy to me.”

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Wait till @JDVance hears about the electoral college
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JD Vance on ranked choice voting: "I don't understand it. It seems to me that you have an election, the person who wins the most votes should win. That seems to be not what happens with ranked choice voting. The fact that it's so confusing to a person who pays pretty close attention to politics I think suggests we should do our elections in, like, the normal way."
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Breaking news: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, whose attempts to win Mexico’s presidency helped break the ruling party’s grip on power, has died at 92. nyti.ms/4BxKyB6
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Who Helped End One-Party Rule in Mexico, Dies at 92

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Who Helped End One-Party Rule in Mexico, Dies at 92

Mr. Cárdenas, the only son of a Mexican president, never won the office but became a leading figure in the country’s democratic transformation.

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Potentially big news from Kansas. #ksleg
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BREAKING: President Trump's rally in Salina on Saturday is cancelled. Link in bio for the latest. #KAKEnews
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Missouri passed a law to compensate the wrongfully convicted. Now it's refusing to pay | By @katie_reports @MarshallProj kcur.org/news/2026-10-29/mis…
Missouri passed a law to compensate the wrongfully convicted. Now it's refusing to pay

Missouri passed a law to compensate the wrongfully convicted. Now it's refusing to pay

Based on a new law, two men are seeking $2.4 million for their combined 38 years in prison. But Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is fighting efforts to pay them for their lost time.

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So the racist "joke" is that Mexicans are scary? This is what your tax dollars are funding.
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Spooky szn is here.
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"Congressional Democrats have again demanded urgent reforms to the country’s immigration court system after The Washington Post revealed a veteran judge’s allegations that she was ordered to reverse rulings and urged to conduct sham bond hearings." wapo.st/4yNdjXZ
Democrats demand reform after judge says DOJ ordered her to reverse rulings

Democrats demand reform after judge says DOJ ordered her to reverse rulings

In the wake of a Post investigation, Democrats in Congress have renewed calls to ensure the independence of the nation's immigration judges.

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Breaking News: Alvin Hellerstein, a senior federal judge in Manhattan overseeing the prosecution of the captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, has died at 92. nyti.ms/4eDfyWx
Alvin K. Hellerstein, Federal Judge Who Oversaw Maduro Case, Dies

Alvin K. Hellerstein, Federal Judge Who Oversaw Maduro Case, Dies

Judge Hellerstein died on Wednesday morning, according to a court spokesman. He was appointed in 1998 and was overseeing the trial of Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela.

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Guy whose mother-in-law is named Lakshmi Chilikuri pretending that Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan are too tough to pronounce. Vance's "I'm just a good old boy"'s act grows more tiresome and less believable by the day.
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JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"
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Dolores Huerta, a pioneering labor organizer and civil rights icon who cofounded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez in the 1960s, has died at 96, her family said in a statement. cnn.it/4iMPEBd
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Children's Mercy ACA spat shows how patients get caught in crossfire of business deals, federal policies thebeaconnews.org/stories/20…
Children's Mercy ACA spat shows how patients get caught in crossfire of business deals, federal...

Children's Mercy ACA spat shows how patients get caught in crossfire of business deals, federal...

In January, about 400 Kansas City kids are set to lose access to Children’s Mercy Hospital and its affiliated pediatric practices.

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"Bridges are vital infrastructures, designed to connect us, not to endanger our lives."_ from the petition. Monica Rivera, 24, likely fell to her death. #KC #KS Request the city to fill dangerous gap on 7th street bridge - Sign the Petition! c.org/hkLJ6jXpC2 via @Change
Sign the Petition

Sign the Petition

Request the city to fill dangerous gap on 7th street bridge

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Someone tell this man where the word algebra comes from
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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Novel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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BREAKING: A hacker is attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems and that agency has had to 'temporarily shut down' its web-facing services as a result, according to an email seen by Reuters reut.rs/4imQyUu
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McPherson Public Schools will be closed today so staff members and classmates can join friends and family in saying goodbye to 6-year-old Cole Adrian. Link in bio. #KAKEnews
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In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web. motherjones.com/environment/…
The EPA is quietly killing its web archive

The EPA is quietly killing its web archive

Tens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump's climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear.

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Congratulations to the Washington Wildcats! They are the 2026 Meadowlark Conference Football Champions! A well-deserved accomplishment for the team and coaching staff. @WashHouseFB #HistoryMade
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David J. Bier
@David_J_BierOct 26
There's only one way to make illegal immigrants seem fiscally negative to the federal government: lie about them. That's the approach of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers cato.org/blog/white-house-co…
The White House Council of Economic Advisers' Imaginary Cost of Illegal Immigrants

The White House Council of Economic Advisers' Imaginary Cost of Illegal Immigrants

Once we account for the cost of mass deportation—which CEA conservatively estimates at $148 billion or nearly $13,000 per illegal immigrant over 5 years—the only thing the CEA proves is that it would...

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To keep #rural #healthcare workers, #Missouri is helping cover their childcare costs #childcareworks thebeaconnews.org/stories/20…
To keep rural healthcare workers, Missouri is helping cover their childcare costs

To keep rural healthcare workers, Missouri is helping cover their childcare costs

New funding will expand a program that shares childcare costs among employers, families and the state. But finding available care still presents a challenge for many families.

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