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Corbin H. Crable chcrable@gardnernews.com I hate the fact that I even have to write this column. Kansas City, like much of the rest of the nation, is squirming in the grip of a stifling heat wave, and there are far too many of the sick, elderly and economically disadvantaged who are suffering in silence. When [...]
Corbin H. Crable chcrable@gardnernews.com Thirty years is too long to wait for a permanent memorial to those who died in the Hyatt Hotel skywalk collapse. But this weekend’s planned activities to mark the disaster certainly are a start in the long, arduous healing process. Kansas Citians – and engineering students as well – are familiar [...]
Corbin H. Crable chcrable@gardnernews.com I’ve always been a sucker for history. I love hearing other people’s stories about where they grew up, how they grew up, how the world around them changed as they came of age, and how, possessing the knowledge they’ve amassed over the years, they view their world now. It just so [...]
Corbin H. Crable chcrable@gardnernews.com And you thought I-35 during rush hour was bad. Chinese media – with the government’s unnecessary blessing, of course – released images of a massive traffic jam on a highway in Beijing earlier this week. Motorists’ cars were at a standstill as road construction crews held up the flow of traffic. [...]
Around this same time last year, I was writing a column about how, as a self-proclaimed “city boy,” I knew very little about what goes into the work of 4-H’ers and their experiences in raising and showing livestock and other animals at the Johnson County Fair. Although I learned a lot from last year’s fair [...]
Corbin H. Crable chcrable@gardnernews.com A story on CNN’s website this week updated its readers on those countries that have made good on their promise to deliver relief funds to earthquake-ravaged Haiti – and the news isn’t good for the U.S. According to the article, America pledged a whopping $1.15 billion of the total $5.3 billion [...]
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