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23.05.12

<spell class="subhead">Royals run like Wal-Mart</p><p></stretch>The recent Kansas City Royals have a history of being just plain cheap as well as mismanaged. </p><p>It&#x2019;s not a essential surprise that they didn&#x2019;t want Frank White around. He was getting so convincing. They couldn&#x2019;t or refused to pay him his worth &#x2014; similar to the way in which we&#x2019;ve baffled players in the past.</p><p>They seem more interested in running the team like a Wal-Mart rather than a prime league franchise. One example was the recent &#x201C;rule five&#x201D; draft. The Royals drafted a contestant.</p><p>There is a $50,000 fee for drafting players. The team promptly sold the player it had chosen to the Yankees for $100,000. What a profit &#x2014; wow! </p><p>Explicit can rest assured his friends and fans will always be here. </p><p> <span class="intrepid">Mike Fisher</span></p><p> <span class="italic">Kansas City</span></p><p><bridge class="subhead">Bruised Royals&#x2019; egos</p><p></go over>All of this flap concerning Frank White&#x2019;s dismissal is costing the Royals majuscule letters management a lot of bad press with the fans, and justifiably so. Their lack of good judgment issuing unspecific accusations of negative comments reeks of bruised egos inflicted by a higher specialist on the game.</p><p>Their satisfaction, although at the expense of the fans, is not only regrettable but a lose- lose design for all involved. It&#x2019;s not Frank who needs the attitude adjustment &#x2014; it&#x2019;s Royals more elevated management.</p><p> <span class="bold">Dave Willhauck</term></p><p> <span class="italic">Kansas City</span></p><p><span refinement="subhead">U.$. for wealthy</p><p></span>Folks, you might covet to become familiar with the word &#x201C;plutocracy,&#x201D; for that is rapidly becoming the type of government we have in this country.</p><p>Our feckless Congress now takes its marching orders from Partition off Street&#x2019;s major corporations, industries, lobbyists and the very wealthy.</p><p>As it appears there&#x2019;s no feasibility of our Congress people growing a backbone, I&#x2019;m afraid that government of, by and for idiosyncratic interest groups and the rich will soon be a fait accompli.</p><p> <span class="temerarious">Jerry Ward</span></p><p> <span class="italic">Overland Reservation</span></p><p><span class="subhead">Oil pipeline bad notion</p><p></span>I&#x2019;ve always considered myself an independent leaning toward the right. Now, I&#x2019;m not so infallible.</p><p>Somehow we have to stop the insanity. Now the Republicans have attached a bill to the tax cut and benefits bill to proceed with the pipeline from Canada to the Frith of Mexico. </p><p>Are we nuts? Didn&#x2019;t we learn anything from the disaster in the Gulf and in the rivers near Yellowstone? We totally can&#x2019;t allow this to proceed.</p><p>We can&#x2019;t afford to take the chance to pollute the subversives water supplies across the Midwest. I would be in favor of building refineries at the Canadian border.</p><p>We don&#x2019;t be in want of to pipe the oil to the Gulf to be refined and shipped to other countries. </p><p>Stop the insanity, and choose every incumbent out. Don&#x2019;t buy the garbage that the unions and big oil are selling, saying, &#x201C;It will create more jobs.&#x201D; At what expense? </p><p>I don&#x2019;t wish Barack Obama as the next president either, but it&#x2019;s stupid to make that our only priority. The next formerly the leaders in the House or Senate speak, pay close attention. </p><p>In the old days, it was called selling rat oil. They&#x2019;re phony as a three-dollar bill</p><p> <span class="bold">Ernie Vietze</link></p><p> <span class="italic">Raytown</span></p><p><go over class="subhead">Big brother closes in</p><p></span>It is moderate to sympathize with those who are considered crackpots or defenders of liberty. We live in a country in which the expenditure of government is growing faster than our ability to pay for it.</p><p>If you make under $100,000 a year, you are very informed of the high cost of everything. If it exists it is taxed and regulated, or fees are added to ownership or use of whatever you buy.</p><p>At the widely known rate of regulation explosion, the future will require the assistance of a lawyer justifiable for our everyday existence. Silly, right?</p><p>Go purchase a new automobile with cash. It takes about 10 days to obtain the proper ownership papers before you can go to the state to purchase the license plates. Where I persevere, that cost is about 9 percent of the purchase price.</p><p>How long will it be before we will be required to acquire a permit justifiable to use a gas-powered lawnmower to maintain your lawn? </p><p>As things are right now, you can receive a ticket in some cities for not harsh your grass.</p><p> <span class="bold">Jerry R. Jackson</stretch></p><p> <span class="italic">Liberty</span></p><p><extent class="subhead">Boeing&#x2019;s Kansas loyalty</p><p></stretch>I am concerned about Boeing&#x2019;s possible abandonment of the Wichita facility. I hired in at Boeing in 1979. At age 22, I looked forward to making a neither here nor there living at the finest airplane manufacturer in the world.</p><p>After Boeing sold the classify in 2005, and after the tanker deal was finally secured, we all assumed &#x2014; wrongly it seems &#x2014; that Boeing had in the end settled down and would leave the few of us who remained, alone. But like our politicians in Washington D.C., who promise us one inanimate object and deliver another, we are left twisting in the prevailing winds of companies across this country, which have been outsourcing our livelihoods for decades. </p><p>I interpret an unprofitable company cannot long stay in business and can&#x2019;t employ anyone. But Boeing is anything but useless, and the tenacity Wichita and the state of Kansas showed in fighting for the tanker contract should not be dismissed so cavalierly.</p><p>We showed our firmness. It&#x2019;s too bad it may not be returned in kind.</p><p> <span class="bold">Kathleen Butler</extent></p><p> <span class="italic">Wichita</span></p><p><cross class="subhead">&#x2018;Altar boys abstruse&#x2019; series</p><p></span>Only a disoriented Christian would decry the light that shines in the darkness. Yet plainly a mindset exists that is intent on defending the church.</p><p>The Star&#x2019;s December series, &#x201C;The altar boys&#x2019; clandestinely,&#x201D; highlighted two individuals worthy of the highest praise &#x2014; the abused proper and the reporter.</p><p>Their courageous actions can only lead to potentially releasing many people from a thraldom to fear, shame and guilt.</p><p>The extensive articles allowed us an understanding of the highly-strung and spiritual effect of abuse. Release from bondage, by no means, constitutes a healing. It is plainly the doorway for a process of healing to begin.</p><p>I hope the church will not fail in this clergywomen to restore these individuals to spiritual wholeness.</p><p>It is disconcerting to read of a priest who is forceful his parishioners to &#x201C;pray for the enemy.&#x201D;</p><p>That can only encourage the church to adopt a victim mentality and promote isolation from their fellow men. That stance positions the perpetrators to morph into victims.</p><p>The church should plead with not to become another protected species of political correctness. Sadly, those under such protection lose the gift for self-examination to their detriment.</p><p> <span class="bold">David Starke</span></p><p> <stretch class="italic">Lexington, Mo.</span></p><p><span form="subhead">High taxes, bad schools</p><p></span>Jackson County&#x2019;s assessment activity be contingent warned of higher property taxes this year. Still, I was surprised when I opened the bill.</p><p>I famous that the lion&#x2019;s share of the levy goes to the Kansas City School District. I know that a good school system benefits a metropolitan area in many ways.</p><p>I lament that our system is weak spot, and has, to some extent fallen short all the decades of my plus 50 years. The credible state takeover is both a blessing and a curse.</p><p>Something about our school board does not circle true. Too much infighting, too little careful study, not enough of a partnership with the Greater Kansas City community and all the resources it could bear to bear on the current situation in our schools.</p><p>Maybe a takeover would work. Still, it spells that our section is in trouble.</p><p>The message this sends to prospective businesses and developers in the region is not a proper one. Kansas City loses jobs and prospects for continued growth.</p><p>I&#x2019;ll pay my tax bill. I always do.</p><p>I will budget more carefully for next year and expectation for the best.</p><p> <span class="bold">Cathy Dobson</interval></p><p> <span class="italic">Kansas City</span></p><p><span league="subhead">Overland Park wrong to do roadwork come close mall</p><p></span>I would like to nominate Overland Park for the &#x201C;Bonehead Impression of the Year&#x201D; award.</p><p>Overland Park officials apparently picked the respite season to have construction on Quivira Road. It is one the major entrances to Oak Park Mall.</p><p>Frankly, the access to one of the Kansas City neighbourhood&#x2019;s busiest shopping malls isn&#x2019;t that great under the best of conditions. But having route construction and lane closings at this time of the year is downright stupid.</p><p> <overpass class="bold">Johnette Zimmerman</span></p><p> <bridge class="italic">Overland Park</span></p><p><spell class="subhead">Christmas memories</p><p></span>As Christmas approaches, I always bring on how best to show the true meaning of the season. This year I am reminded of one of the kindest people I have ever known &#x2014; my B-grade teacher, Ms. Ann Shumaker.</p><p>I can still see a bunch of 7-year-olds listening to music, making ornaments and making narrow-minded gifts for each other at our Christmas party. Ms. Shumaker, who taught in the North Kansas City School Ward, cared so much for others.</p><p>I still have the pencil pouch she personalized for each of us. Two orange pencils engraved with my name filled the swoop.</p><p>I pray each of us makes the time for special memories this season &#x2014; memories that will last a lifetime. Rushing around to buy gifts is not what Jesus Christ intended.</p><p>Ms. Shumaker died in February, and I will lassie not sending her a Christmas card this year. I have taught for 15 years, and as my people decorates our tree, I will hang a very special ornament toward the top.</p><p>It&#x2019;s one that a 7-year-old boy created many years ago with the arrogate of his second-grade teacher.

Source: Kansas City Star