• All

Most Recent Posts (As of: 12:04)

• KMBC Sports: Ex-Chief Won?t Face Criminal Charges In Wreck

  —The Kansas Progress

  KMBC: KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jackson County authorities said former Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Rich Baldinger will not face criminal charges in a fatal traffic accident. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said 61-year-old Marilyn Walters of Grain Valley was killed Saturday when the car she was in collided with a car [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 10:54am EDT by admin

• KC Star: Events and Entertainment Today in Kansas City | July 4

  —The Kansas Progress

  The Star:
  
  Click headline above for more.

  
  

  [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 10:33am EDT by admin

• KU Endowment Association hit by poor return on investments: Winfield Daily Courier

  —The Kansas Progress

  Source: This year’s poor returns on investments by the University of Kansas Endowment Association became a lunchtime topic Wednesday between an Arkansas City businessman and the endowment association’s president. Bill Docking, a trustee of the endowment association, discussed the economy and other matters with Dale Seuferling, association president, at a lunch at [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 10:33am EDT by admin

• The Star: Statue of Liberty replicas were a Kansas City man?s dream

  —The Kansas Progress

  The Star: Today, for the first time since the 2001 terrorist attacks, visitors to the Statue of Liberty are again free to view the world from a lofty perch: Lady Liberty’s crown. While many yearn to climb the 354 steps inside the giant icon, security concerns will keep the huddled masses allowed to [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 10:32am EDT by admin

• The Star: KU?s Self believes the Henry saga is over

  —The Kansas Progress

  The Star: A week from now, when the NCAA’s summer evaluation period is in full swing, big-time college basketball coaches will board their private jets and small-time coaches will wait in security lines for commercial airliners. Along each journey, there will be bumps in the road, misunderstandings between adult and teenager, [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 10:31am EDT by admin

• The Star: Northeast Kansas City restaurant is open after morning electrical fire

  —The Kansas Progress

  The Star: A northeast Kansas City restaurant is open for business tonight after an electrical fire damaged the exterior roof of its building. Fire officials estimated the blaze caused about $10,000 in damage to the Smuggler’s Inn on Universal Avenue near Interstate 435 and Front Street.
  
  Click headline above for more.

  [...]

  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 10:31am EDT by admin

• AP: Lab slated for Kansas still needs fed. permission

  —The Kansas Progress

  AP: WASHINGTON - Kansas state officials have agreed to give the Homeland Security Department land for a national lab to research deadly germs, but the Justice Department noted Thursday that the agency still needs permission and money from Congress to build the facility. The Homeland Security Department has said it hopes to [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 10:30am EDT by admin

• Tom Bart buys British Traditions: KC Biz Journal

  —The Kansas Progress

  KC Biz Journal: Tom Bart of Overland Park bought Grandview-based British Traditions Inc. on June 3, for an undisclosed amount. British Traditions manufactures and reproduces antique-style European furniture and cabinets. The business has a 100,000-square-foot showroom and manufacturing facility in Grandview, employing 40 to 60 people.
  
  Click headline above for more.

  [...]

  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 10:29am EDT by admin

• De Soto VFW blood drive: Explorer

  —The Kansas Progress

  Source: The Community Blood Center will have a blood drive at De Soto VFW Post 6654 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday, July 19 at De Soto VFW Post 6654’s Kansas Banquet Hall. The drive comes as the Community Blood Center’s summer blood supply in critically low
  
  Click headline above [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 10:28am EDT by admin

• The Star: De Soto sunflowers help fight polio

  —The Kansas Progress

  The Star: What started as a quest for sunflower patterns to paint on a barn has become a field of real sunflowers planted to raise money for a cause. Darrel Zimmerman, owner of Zimmerman’s Kill Creek Farm in De Soto, wanted to paint sunflowers on his historic barn to commemorate the Kansas [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 10:28am EDT by admin

• Eight Republicans Help Confirm a Hard-Core Gun Banner

  —The Patriots News from the citizen advocates..Police State...Doctors urged to ask..does daddy own a gun?

  Too much work [was] left undone. After a few sleepless nights, I wrote for myself a list of issues on which I needed to do more in the years ahead. One of those issues was global regulation of small arms." -- Harold Hongju Koh (2001) On Wednesday, Senate Republicans attempted [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 9:00am EDT by Midwest News

• Happy 4th of July!

  —The Kenig Konnection

  
  
  

  Amid the fireworks, food, and family fun, let's reflect and remember that what we are celebrating: that we are the most free, most democratic, most open society and country on earth. This country and system of government did not happen by accident--the vision and [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 3:49am EDT

• Independence Day

  —The KRA Blog

  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 3:32am EDT by KRA ED

• Of Kings and Queens and Freedom

  —Noblesse Oblige

  Of Kings and Queens and Freedom Driving across the plains a couple years back I was musing while returning home from visiting my son and soon-to-be daughter-in-law. Rolling through the countryside across gentle hills and through green valleys I marveled at this land and our people. There were a thousand vistas [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 2:04am EDT by Thanos

• July 3 was Sarah Palin's Independence Day

  —Kaw & Border

  In perhaps what will go down as the biggest political move in a decade, Sarah Palin has decided to resign from her position as Governor of Alaska, effective July 26.The conventional wisdom to this -- including among many well-meaning conservatives -- is that this move will sink Sarah Palin. Their [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 1:51am EDT by Kaw & Border

• Media Double Standard on Captured US Soldier Predictable: Weekly Standard

  —The Kansas Progress

  TWS: Remember how the media conspired to hide the capture of New York Times reported David Rohde by the Taliban? We were told the media did the right thing to deliberately not report on his capture in order to ensure the reporter’s safety and not allow the Taliban to use the media [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 12:03am EDT by admin

• CNET: Apple tops hardware sites in May traffic

  —The Kansas Progress

  CNET: iPhone fever was hot in May, at least based on the number of people who frequented Apple’s Web site. The Mac maker’s Apple.com last month hosted 55.7 million unique visitors, more than the site of any other computer hardware manufacturer, according to a report released on Monday by Nielsen Online. The [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 04, 2009, 12:00am EDT by admin

• Defending against chemical and biological weapons: CNET

  —The Kansas Progress

  CNET: DUGWAY, Utah–In a world where American soldiers in Afghanistan or Iraq might find themselves under attack from chemical or biological weapons, who’s looking out for their safety? The answer lies deep in the western Utah desert, at a U.S. Army facility called the Dugway Proving Ground where, among other things, groups of [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:56pm EDT by admin

• CNET Photos: Soaring ambition for solar aircraft

  —The Kansas Progress

  CNET: On June 26, a prototype of the world’s latest solar-powered airplane was unveiled at an airfield in Dubendorf, Switzerland, by company co-founders and future pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg. The Solar Impulse HB-SIA is designed to fly both day and night without the need for fuel and without producing any pollution. The [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:54pm EDT by admin

• Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID: CNET

  —The Kansas Progress

  CNET: Three patent applications by Apple were published Thursday, and they cover technologies including haptics, fingerprint recognition, and RFID. The haptic feedback patent, if approved, would bring theiPhone (and possibly other Apple devices) in line with rival handsets, which already provide localized tactile feedback in, for example, an onscreen soft keyboard. Haptic technology gives [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:53pm EDT by admin

• DOJ opens formal investigation into Google Books settlement: CNET

  —The Kansas Progress

  CNET: Such an investigation had been previously reported, and Google had confirmed that it had received requests from the government for information. But Judge Denny Chin, who is overseeing issues surrounding the settlement until it is implemented in October, received formal notice of an investigation Thursday from the DOJ and released the letter [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:52pm EDT by admin

• CNET: Defending against chemical and biological weapons

  —The Kansas Progress

  CNET: For now, purplera1n is Windows-only (but not Windows 7) and requires the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with the 3.0 firmware. In a Friday blog post titled “I make it ra1n,” Holtz says a Mac version is “coming shortly.” Holtz notes that he normally doesn’t make tools for the general public [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:52pm EDT by admin

• Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites: CNET

  —The Kansas Progress

  CNET: An electrical fire at downtown Seattle’s Fisher Plaza has interrupted service at a growing roster of Web sites, including Microsoft’s Bing Travel and Authorize.net. Fisher Communications said in statement Friday that the problems at the Fisher Plaza data center started in a garage-level electrical room at approximately 11:10 p.m. Thursday night. Fisher said the [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:50pm EDT by admin

• CNET: Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store

  —The Kansas Progress

  CNET: An employee at an Apple store near Washington D.C. was shot and wounded Friday morning, police have confirmed. The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is currently at an area hospital recovering from a wound to the right shoulder. She is said to be in serious but stable condition. Police say the shooting [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:49pm EDT by admin

• CNET FAQ: Making sense of Windows 7 upgrade options

  —The Kansas Progress

  CNET: Who qualifies for the pre-order program? All those who are running Windows XP or Windows Vista on their system, and whose PC is capable of running Windows 7, can upgrade that machine to Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Professional using the Windows pre-order program. However, the program is limited in both [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:48pm EDT by admin

• Freedom of Information Request to Congressman Dennis Moore about ?Cap and Trade?

  —Kansas Meadowlark

  

  Congressman Dennis Moore

  Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, Ohio may have been “bought off” for her “yes” vote for the recent Cap and Trade bill in the U.S. House.  A “Kaptur project”  was part of the 310-page amendment [...]

  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:16pm EDT by efg

• Tug of War

  —Noblesse Oblige

  Tug of War Kasey and Django fighting over a toy. Once Kasey gets it free the result is usually about five minutes of full tilt running around the backyard. Django tries to cut the circle most times because he has a hard time keeping up, but then Kasey just reverses field [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 8:39pm EDT by Thanos

• KCWIRED DROPS 2 REVIEWS FOR THE WEEKEND

  —JOCOSOB

  Wil Jenny's
  The perfect combination of Mexican and Barbecue.; who would have thunk it! Their baby back ribs are ecstasy and their enchilada's are rock and roll. What else would you want? Well, they have great chocolate cake too! Sit in the bar area for the most fun; It's all [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 8:01pm EDT

• What a Real 4X4 Grill Looks Like

  —Noblesse Oblige

  What a Real 4X4 Grill Looks Like When I first moved to the lower 48 from Alaska I was shocked to see four wheel drive vehicles… with no dents, and wax jobs. Shiny paint, white whitewalls. Sports utility vehicles — what the heck is that? In Alaska you drive a “rig” [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 7:46pm EDT by Thanos

• Comparative Health Care MA vs GA

  —Noblesse Oblige

  Comparative Health Care MA vs GA In this video 1000 pennies compares two major health care differences between Georgia and Massachusetts. [...]
  
  Share | Rate | BNN Archive

  Posted: July 03, 2009, 7:28pm EDT by Thanos