Category Archives: Rich Steele
Steele: How KC Can Spare Itself a St. Louis-Style Bloodbath.
No one tracks crime and punishment more analytically than local political scientist Dr. Ernest Evans… Evans predicted what would happen in St. Louis after the Michael Brown shooting on August 9, and his predictions have come sadly true. In the … Continue reading
Steele: KCTV Risks PC Blowback, Praises City Union Mission
In a recent piece on the City Union Mission, KCTV5 did a positive story about the excellent work the Mission has been doing for the last 90 years with the area’s homeless… Notably, KCTV5 did so without mentioning the Mission’s policy on … Continue reading
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Tagged City Union Mission, Dan Doty, Kansas City Star, KCTV5, Rich Steele
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Steele: Is The Star Getting the ‘Teen’ Message?
In a refreshing change, nowhere in the article on the abduction of a south Kansas City man does Kansas City Star reporter Matt Campbell refer to the accused, De’zahn James Carey, as a “teen.” He’s referred to only as a … Continue reading
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Tagged De’zahn James Carey, Matt Campbell, Rich Steele, Robert Caldwell
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Steele: More of Those Mischievous “Teens”
The Kansas City Star headlined its story on the recent water park death of a young black girl, “Three KC teens charged with murder in slaying of 14-year-old Alexis Kane.” The Star is hardly unique in its use of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis Kane, Ce-Antonyo, Kansas City Star, Michael Brown, Rich Steele
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Steele: Have Kansas Teachers Become The Rural Aristocracy?
Although rural Kansas school districts do not have anything like the seventy-four $100K-plus employees of the Blue Valley District or the sixty-two $100K-plus employees in Shawnee Mission, they don’t do half bad – especially compared to the people paying their … Continue reading
Steele: Guess How Many Blue Valley Employees Make 100K +
Employees of the Blue Valley School District have got to enjoy the chronic editorial handwringing about the alleged underfunding of public schools… In between calls to their stockbrokers and money managers, this has to be a subject of great amusement … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Valley School District, Blue Valley Schools, Rich Steele, Tom Trigg
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Steele: Steve Kraske, Please Tell Us The Sebelius Story Is A Joke
The featured Kansas City Star headline reads as follows, “Kathleen Sebelius criticizes Gov. Sam Brownback’s vision for Kansas.” This is one of two prominent Brownback-bashing articles in Wednesday’s newspaper – by freelance political writer Steve Kraske – a slow day … Continue reading
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Tagged George Tiller, Jon Stewart, Kathleen Sebelius, Rich Steele, Sam Brownback, Steve Kraske
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Steele: St. Louis PD Goes Silent on Crime Stats
“Just checked the STL Police Dept. website,” wrote a criminologist friend who monitors crime trends. “Not only do they not have the latest homicide stats, but they even took off the stats from the week ending Jan. 13–the current listing … Continue reading
Steele: Star Goes OCD on Brownback Budget
In the same week that the Kansas City Star will editorialize rhapsodically about Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech, one in which he will lay out the numerous new ways in which he plans to keep increasing the national … Continue reading
Steele: Do Black Lives Really Matter in Missouri?
The Kansas City Star reports rather matter-of-factly that for the fourth time in the last five years, Missouri led the nation in the percentage of its black citizens who were victims of homicide… Quick: name two black people in the … Continue reading
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Tagged al sharpton, Alexis Kane, George Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, Michael Brown, President obama, Rich Steele
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Steele: ‘She’s A Pistol’ Owner Did What He Had To Do
The best testimony we have to date on the actions of gun shop owner Jon Bieker comes from his wife Becky… “I have lost my husband in this senseless murder. Although tragic, he saved my life because he carried a … Continue reading
Steele: New Biz Opportunity–Renting Getaway Cars
This past Friday the Kansas City area experienced two major crimes… One was tragic, both were incredibly stupid. What the would-be robbers of Shawnee gun shop She’s a Pistol and the downtown Commerce Bank had in common was the absence of … Continue reading
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Tagged al sharpton, Rich Steele, She's a Pistol, Steven Marquain Davis, Turner Classic Movies
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Steele: Star, Why Bother to “talk about race”?
Why Bother to talk if the FYI section series– “After Ferguson, let’s talk about race, Kansas City“–is as skewed and dishonest as the last half century of such articles? The article opens, “In the months since Michael Brown was killed, some … Continue reading
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Tagged FYI section, Jesse Jackson, Kansas City, Kansas City Star, Let's Talk about race, Lisa Gutierrez, Micxhael Brown, Rich Steele
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Steele: First World Problem Alert!
While students at KC’s Central High are thrilled when they get through another day un-shot, students at Saint Teresa’s Academy are “outraged” because their new student IDs make them look BETTER than they do in real life… They are sufficiently … Continue reading
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Tagged Fox 4 News, Nan Tiehen Bone, Rich Steele, Saint Teresa's Academy
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Steele: Some kinds of families ARE better than others.
Hate to be on the wrong side of the barricades during the sexual revolution, but being on the “right” side can be lethal… Nothing funny about this story, moms. Beware of your “boyfriends.” As Fox 4 reports 23 year-old Mirsad … Continue reading
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Tagged American Academy of Pediatrics, Fox 4 News, Mirsad Hamidovic
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Steele: ‘I’m not running for Missouri Governor in 2016’
(AP) Rich Steele said Monday the he won’t run for Missouri governor in 2016… Like U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill who made the same announcement the same day, Steele said of his current KC Confidential gig, “The work is too important, … Continue reading
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Steele: Nicquan, Hakeem, Londro & De’Anthony Never Had a Chance
What’s in a name?” asked Romeo’s underaged honey, Juliet… Unfortunately for the four youthful murderers of Shawnee gun shop-owner, 44-year-old Jon Bieke, a whole lot. The four were all but doomed the moment their mother–or whomever–stuck these concocted, half-assed names … Continue reading
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Steele: Star Continues to Fret About Kansas Tax Cuts
Kansas City Star editors seem to think that if they run two-thousand or so articles about a possible budget deficit in Kansas they will be able to convince readers they actually care about the Kansas budget… Now, they warn us about … Continue reading
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Steele: Shawnee Mission, Just Say No to Drugs & Bonds
In Johnson County, school bonds are drugs for the power-Whigs who run the show… Specifically, the Shawnee Mission School District and its boosters at the Kansas City Star are planning to ask voters for a cool $223 million in capital … Continue reading
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Tagged France, Kansas City Star, pissoir, Rich Steele, Shawnee Mission School District
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