Melinda Henneberger

1 week ago | kansascity.com | Melinda Henneberger

There are a couple of explosive new allegations - and right now, they are only that - in the most recent filings from defendants in the federal sex trafficking conspiracy case that would have also prosecuted former KCKPD detective Roger Golubski had he not killed himself on what was to have been the first day of his first federal trial in December.

2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Melinda Henneberger

A few things to keep in mind, in case you've been too stressed to keep up lately: Our most steadfast allies, like our friends in Canada, are suddenly the bad guys, don't ask why, and tanking the global economy will somehow lead to a boom. "The operation is over! The patient lived, and is healing," Donald Trump wrote in defending his market-crashing tariffs, as if surgery for cancer you never had in the first place were widely recommended.

2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Melinda Henneberger

Last week, I wrote a column about a Kansas City Catholic, Jimbo Gillcrist, who returned to the parish he'd grown up in, Holy Spirit in Overland Park, and five minutes before Mass started, walked to the pulpit and began what he'd hoped would be a conscience-stirring prayer against mass deportations. He didn't get that far, though, before being removed and handcuffed by police. On that much, everyone agrees. But here's the other side of the story, thanks to Jennie Punswick.

3 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Melinda Henneberger

A man who walked up to the pulpit at the church he’d grown up in, Holy Spirit Catholic Church in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, a few minutes before last Sunday’s 11 a.m. Mass was soon wrestled to the ground by four parishioners, including a deacon. Jimbo Gillcrist had just started to recite his own version of the “Our Father,” and to say how we’re all God’s children.

4 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Melinda Henneberger

"That's an outright falsehood," Quinton Lucas says of the allegation from Brian Platt, our probably soon-to-be former city manager. Instagram/briandavidplatt; USA Today Network file photo On the evening of June 3, 2022, City Manager Brian Platt fired off an angry email to Mayor Quinton Lucas. It accused him of changing direction so often on plans for a new city jail that he wanted nothing more to do with the issue. "Please refrain from disrespecting me and my staff," wrote Platt.