Workers who struck Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.'s St. Joseph box plant are not just out a job. They also won't receive severance, a union official said.
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Is America in the mood for class warfare?
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03/03/2009
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Source: Kansas City Star
Farewell irrational exuberance. Welcome to the age of pessimism. That was the rather stark message suggested by the Conference Board's latest survey of consumer confidence. Never in the history of the survey, established in 1967, have we felt so low.
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Candy store moves to Waldo, expands its offerings
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03/03/2009
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Blake Mathews spent 12 years as hospital nurse, but he could never make his patients as happy as he now makes his customers.
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For today’s installment of our monthlong Fits of February series, we’re wondering … how much movie can you fit in 28 seconds?
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Ink's 2008 bar guide
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09/22/2008
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Source: Kansas City Star
Here's the buzz on KC's best watering holes from packed pubs to underground dives: hundreds of bar listings, cool bartender profiles and dedicated regulars' tips.
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Sweet dreams or nightmare for Jimmy Fallon? Time will tell
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03/01/2009
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Source: Kansas City Star
Tonight begins a new era in late-night television. And like the eras that came before it, this one is defined by generational change at the National Broadcasting Co., which invented late-night TV nearly 60 years ago to keep Americans up past their bedtimes.
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‘Cartoon never should have seen the light of day,' NAACP president says
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03/03/2009
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It's the response you'd expect from the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization.
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Kansas candidates answer questions
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02/26/2009
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Source: Kansas City Star
<i>The Star</i> sent out questionnaires to candidates running for office in Kansas. Here are their answers. Voters in Johnson and Wyandotte counties go to the polls on Tuesday.
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After many warnings, huge salvage yard for trucks is scrapped
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03/02/2009
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Disgusting eyesore or one of the eight wonders of Kansas? If you know that ginormous truck graveyard along Interstate 35, you know it's both, columnist Mike Hendricks writes.
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Posters also has been used to draw people to church
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02/27/2009
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Source: Kansas City Star
In the beginning there was light. And soon after, it seems, there were movies. And with movies came movie posters — the “heralds” that drew people into movie theaters, particularly during the Golden Age of Hollywood: the 1920s through 1950s. This was a time “when fantasy architecture made its visitors feel as though they were entering into a sacred space,” says the Rev. Michael Morris, a Dominican priest, film scholar and avid movie poster collector...
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What do you do when your child doesn't believe in God?
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02/27/2009
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Is there any greater proof of the existence of a higher power than the experience of raising a child?
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Leader following, setting example
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02/23/2009
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Jon Willis is one of several young interfaith leaders emerging in Kansas City. He has no long scholarly résumé in the field of religion, but he has two children, ages 7 and 4, and wants a better world for them.
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Dominic James underwent successful surgery on his fractured left foot Friday at Aurora Sinai Medical Center, according to a Marquette University spokesman.
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On further review, Harris' shot was good
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02/28/2009
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Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
You can almost see it.
The race for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference - involving the New Jersey Nets and the Milwaukee Bucks, among others - goes down to the final games of the season. Maybe even the final day of the season, before the Nets edge out their competitors. Better yet, it goes to a tie-breaker before the Nets are awarded the final playoff spot.
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Figuring in: Czisny has utilized Pettit's ice
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02/27/2009
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It would be a stretch to say the Pettit National Ice Center produced the ladies champion at the 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
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