Nov
23
Floyd coming to meet with UMKC community
November 23, 2004 | 1 Comment
University of Missouri System President Elson Floyd will be in town on Tuesday to meet with students, faculty, and staff at UMKC and hear their opinions on Chancellor Martha Gillaland. Her efforts to drag the campus into the future have met with stiff resistance from a faculty that has already run one chancellor out [...]
Nov
20
MU arena namesake in cheating scandal
November 20, 2004 | 2 Comments
More scandal for the MU basketball program. Paige Laurie, the millionaire heiress who is the namesoke for Mizzou’s new basketball palace, is the subject of a recent 20/20 expose on academic dishonesty. She’s accused of paying her roommate $20,000 to wright dozens of papers for her at USC.
Clementa Floyd’s remark that [...]
Nov
19
Blunt Watch
November 19, 2004 | 1 Comment
A new blog with the aim of keeping tabs on Missouri’s new Governor has been added to our political sources… www.bluntwatch.info
Nov
19
Downtown ballpark gaining momentum
November 19, 2004 | Leave a Comment
The Star’s Kevin Collison reports that with the Bistate 2 failure now in the past, the Downtown Council is finally taking a public position in favor of a new downtown baseball stadium.
Nov
18
UMKC in turmoil
November 18, 2004 | 1 Comment
Today UMKC faculty handed Chancellor Martha Gillaland her second and third votes of no confidence as faculty-administration relations continue to spiral downward. As soon as Gillaland arrived on campus she set out to change the school’s reputation from a glorified community collage to a major urban research university. However, that effort has been [...]
Nov
18
More Jackson County shenanigans
November 18, 2004 | Leave a Comment
The web of patronage and scandal continues to unravel over at 12th and Oak. The Star is reporting that former County Executive and current county lobbyist Bill Waris is facing criminal indictment and 15 years in jail for lying and obstructing investigations in various service contracts with current County Exec. Katheryn Shields. Some [...]
Nov
16
Help Wanted: Missouri Dem leader
November 16, 2004 | 1 Comment
The Dems’ three remaining statewide officeholders huddled last week to begin mapping out a party rebuilding strategy, including finding a challenger for Senator Jim Talent in 2006.
AP: State Democrats without clear leader.
Columbia Daily Tribune: Trio points to silver lining of election’s perfect storm.

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