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3 days ago | 
charlotteobserver.com | David Mastio |Melinda Henneberger
Donald Trump ousted National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet because she is a "highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI, which is totally inappropriate for her position." Associated Press Editor's note: Welcome to Double Take, a regular conversation from opinion writers Melinda Henneberger and David Mastio tackling news with differing perspectives and respectful debate.
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1 week ago | 
kansascity.com | David Mastio |Melinda Henneberger
Editor's note: Welcome to Double Take, a regular conversation from opinion writers Melinda Henneberger and David Mastio tackling news with differing perspectives and respectful debate. Read what the writers have to say about launching this column. DAVID: So semi-former Trump minion Elon Musk said something true this week and it is making news. Musk said the Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill is going to raise the deficit, undoing the work of his Department of Government Efficiency.
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1 week ago | 
kansascity.com | Melinda Henneberger
Shawn McKnight held up the the apostolic mandate naming him as archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas at Leawood's Church of the Nativity on Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Melinda Henneberger
Cardinal Christophe Pierre, Rome’s envoy to the United States, jokingly explained at Shawn McKnight’s Tuesday installation as archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas that although the apostolic mandate he had come to read, the one officially naming McKnight, was due to circumstances not actually signed by a pope, it was still completely kosher, so to speak. McKnight was appointed by Pope Francis, so the document, Pierre said, was drafted “during the life of Francis, but Francis died. So what happens?
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1 week ago | 
kansascity.com | Melinda Henneberger
Defendants in the federal sex trafficking conspiracy case that would have included former KCKPD detective Roger Golubski, too, if he hadn't decided to shoot himself, should by all means feel free to call former prosecutor Terra Morehead to testify for them, the state suggested mockingly in a motion filed last Friday. This was in response to an April defense motion that said the case should be dismissed because it was not brought years earlier.
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2 weeks ago | 
kansascity.com | Melinda Henneberger
If you offered me half of Elon Musk's holdings to tell you what Josh Hawley truly believes, I would not be able to cash the check. But after watching our senior U.S. senator for eight years now, I can say with confidence that he likes to stand out in a crowd. By being first to object to the 2020 Electoral College results, then claiming he never tried to overturn the election that Joe Biden won, he did more harm than we'll ever be able to calculate.
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2 weeks ago | 
kansascity.com | Melinda Henneberger
Sarah Milgrim, the young woman murdered with her partner Yaron Lischinsky outside D.C.'s Capital Jewish Museum, "didn't want to step on a bug," her dad said. LinkedIn/Sarah Milgrim Sarah Milgrim, the 26-year-old Prairie Village native killed along with her partner as they left an event on getting aid into Gaza - yes, that's why she and Yaron Lischinsky were at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night - sounds like exactly the kind of young woman this world needs more of.
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2 weeks ago | 
share.google | Melinda Henneberger
Sarah Milgrim, the 26-year-old Prairie Village native killed along with her partner as they left an event on getting aid into Gaza — yes, that’s why she and Yaron Lischinsky were at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night — sounds like exactly the kind of young woman this world needs more of.
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2 weeks ago | 
kansascity.com | David Mastio |Melinda Henneberger
US President Joe Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / Pool / Sipa USA) Sipa USA file photo Editor's note: Welcome to Double Take, a regular conversation from opinion writers Melinda Henneberger and David Mastio tackling news with differing perspectives and respectful debate.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Melinda Henneberger
By Melinda Henneberger, The Kansas City Star Liudmyla Karnes is a Topeka IT specialist and Ukrainian-born naturalized U.S. citizen who loved this country long before she came here 17 years ago. When Russia first invaded Ukraine, Karnes naturally feared for the safety of her sister and three young nieces just a few miles from the fighting - and reports of systematic rapes by soldiers - in Dnipro.
