The Kansas City Star’s Owner Files Bankruptcy

The Kansas City Star recently announced plans to print newspapers in Des Moines, Iowa, instead of downtown Kansas City.

McClatchy Co., owner of the Kansas City Star, sought bankruptcy court protection from creditors early this morning, becoming the latest casualty in a financial crisis that has decimated the newspaper industry.

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A (Blue) River Runs Through Us

In 1975 voters in one of the country’s fastest-growing counties faced a fork in the asphalt. They pondered the construction of three large flood-control reservoirs as part of a $200 million flood-control plan for the Blue River basin presented by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  If the proposition had been approved, three lakes today…

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