KCMO Morning Show Blog

Despite a national poll done just over a month ago by Gallup showing the unprecedented personal happiness of Americans, the New York Times came to Kansas City seeking out the downtrodden, disheartened, and depressed.

Stigall put out an all-call for the featured sad-sacks in the column, and one called in immediately. After talking with Raymond Dixon, Chris coaxed him out of his depression. Listen on our podcast page.

A fascinating interview today with former Iraqi Air Force General Georges Sada, author of "Saddam's Secrets." From what happened to the WMD's to plotting attacks on Israel, Sada's personal insight into the former dictator is eye-opening. Listen to the interview on our podcast page. Sada speaks at the Kansas Republican Assembly's annual dinner in Topeka, Kansas January 25th.

We were amused to FINALLY read the Falling Star's admission: Kansas City's citizen satisfaction is low. Really low. Of course the survey omission was explained away as were the dismal results - all designed to deflect and distract. This story came only after people began to wonder why KC was left out of a recently published 19 city profile of citizen satisfaction surveys across metro suburbs. Mind you this was only online. It was left out of their publication.

The results of this survey, combined with their own editorial today regarding the inflated, inside copy services contracts is more evidence of city manager Wayne Cauthen's failure in office. Yet coverage of Funkhouser's attempt to move on with a new manager was met by this same paper before Christmas with great disdain and charges of racism. One might also ask how responsible Kansas City's former mayor may be for the dismal findings?

A brand new smoking ban study from a leading Missouri economist at the Fed in St. Louis calls more attention to the financial devastation that befalls small business when government steps on them.

Our friends at the Show-Me Institute released a study on light rail in Kansas City. They're not fans. We talked with Crosby Kemper and the study's author yesterday. Listen to it on our podcast page.

Better late than never. Our friend John Landsberg recaps this saga perfectly. A full day after breathless coverage of Governor Matt Blunt and Frances Semler calling it quits, the Falling Star decided to fill you in on a critical story. The news came out Tuesday, but you didn't read about it until today. A second officer has now been cleared and ordered reinstated after being railroaded by the bureaucrat PC establishment and trashed in local media. It's another enormous blow to the folks that wanted to bash cops and race-bait.

Another judge sides with free speech. We'll be watching Missouri's Attorney General Jay Nixon now. Will he fight this judge or the judge that recently ruled language banning affirmative action was welcome to the ballot? Will he challenge any of these rulings for fear they'll draw conservatives to the polls this fall?