Scott Parks One Half of Shanin & Parks

1. Today marks the 25th anniversary of a man I consider to be the greatest rock star in history. Phil Lynott, lead singer of the band Thin Lizzy, died on January 4, 1986.
2. Sometimes I get the feeling that no matter what I do…it isn’t right. Or at least, the result I desire never comes…

By swearing off all PAC money in this campaign, Mr. Turk is swearing off the only sliver of hope he has in beating Emanuel Cleaver.

 
1. To those of you who wrote comments on my last blog (“Thanks”), I can only say: THANKS TO YOU. It is hard sometimes to share such a personal story, to admit to failure, to show a side of you that isn’t pleasant. To all of you who wrote such nice things in response: you…

What I am about to say, I have never said publicly.
A year ago today I was in what most of us would refer to as a “funk”. I was divorced, missing my kids, living alone for the first time in well over a decade and feeling that I was now a failure in the eyes of…

If somehow this gusher in the Gulf is capped, Americans will quickly forget about this disaster.

Five months ago most of us had never even heard of Congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania. Now, I would challenge you to find a political junkie — or even a passive viewer of all things politik — who hasn’t.
Congressman Sestak now finds himself in the epicenter of a potential political hurricane, one that may claim…

Aggie Stackhouse, a former member of the Kansas City City Council and current member of the city’s Parks Board, may have just picked a fight she can’t win. Days after 55,000 people of all stripes poured into Penn Valley Park in Kansas City for the annual Rockfest extravaganza, which left behind acres of mud and…

April, 2010 may well go down in history as the month when Kansas City’s racial divide boiled to the surface.
Stories of nearly a thousand young mostly black men and women converging on the Country Club Plaza, some with the intent of wreaking havoc, has dominated the airwaves and the front page of the paper for…