Kennedy on Columbia
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Mike Matthes began his sixth State of the City address Wednesday by telling a packed City Council chamber that he was bringing “mostly wonderful news.”…
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When UM System President MunChoi revealed Friday afternoon his plan for cutting the system budget by $90 million and reconfiguring the institution for the…
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When I told my long-suffering wife I intended to write about Wednesday’s announcement of our university’s new chancellor, she replied with some asperity…
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Top to bottom, the 2016 election was a disaster for Missouri Democrats.Republicans came out of that campaign holding six of our eight seats in the U.S.…
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Let’s take a couple of minutes to celebrate the accomplishments of the 99th Missouri General Assembly, which finished its 2017 session a week ago.We won’t…
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Editor's Note: George Kennedy is a retired professor and writes an unpaid column for the Missourian. His views are his own and not necessarily those of…
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I make it a practice never to turn down free food and drink, so when Jeff Chinn invited me to a program this week at the new Barred Owl restaurant, I…
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It’s probably just as well that our university’s new president isn’t an historian.If he were, Mun Choi might take a discouraging lesson from the past of…
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Like most of you, I suspect, I’ve been reading with interest the Missourian’s extensive coverage of the campaigns leading up to Tuesday’s local…
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Two big meetings at our university this week made the news.One was celebratory, the other cautionary. They could hardly have been more different in…