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Consumer advocates say the public should be ready to express its opposition to Empire District Electric Co.'s proposed rate hike for Kansas customers.
Southeast Kansas customers of Empire District Electric Co. could be paying higher rates next year.
In 2001, Simon Cowell figured a singing contest snapped up by British TV would be an easy sell in America. Instead, network responses ranged from lukewarm to hostile.
The hulking, modern cargo port unveiled here over the weekend with song and dance honoring Djibouti's Somali and Afar heritage looks out of place in such a hardscrabble landscape.
The way British history was on the move in New York harbor on Thursday, one might think the empire itself was staging a comeback — if only for a day.
A dozen years ago, many believed that India's Tata Group — the country's oldest and largest conglomerate — was a bloated behemoth that would eventually go under.
When Theo Epstein took over as Boston Red Sox general manager five years ago, he didn't have to look very far for a model of success. The New York Yankees might be Boston's fiercest rival, but they know a thing or two about winning.
Changing the WorldAmericans have tended to watch with a remarkable (I think frightening) degree of passivity as crises of all sorts have gripped the country and sent millions of lives into tailspins.
9 Signs of America in DeclineThe sky isn't falling, exactly. America isn't on a fast track to irrelevance. Even in a state of total neglect, we could probably shamble along as a disheveled superpower for a few more decades.
New York City spending $24M Homeland Security windfall on wide-ranging security updateThe "Ring of Steel" security plan is coming to midtown Manhattan. The Empire State Bldg., Grand Central Terminal, and the United Nations will be surrounded with cameras, license plate readers, and chemical weapons detectors under the new plan to go into effect by 2011.
Is The U.S. Preparing To Bomb Iran?The Pentagon is always making plans, but based on a little-noticed funding request recently sent to Congress, the answer to that question appears to be yes.
Who Decides About War? What About the People? The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan has reached its "sell-by…" date. A majority of Americans now tell pollsters the mission was a mistake.
Can America Be Salvaged?I really don't know what to say anymore, about a country in which angry mobs of supposed anti-socialist demonstrators scream at their congressional representatives to "keep your government hands off my Medicare".
Is Murdoch's Plan to Charge for Online News Doomed?Rupert Murdoch announced plans to charge for all online content of his newspaper and TV empire, in what is possibly the boldest move of any media mogul to boost revenue from online news.
Ten steps to liquidate US bases However ambitious United States President Barack Obama's domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch.
Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our EmpireHowever ambitious President Barack Obama's domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch.
Rahm Promised Blue Dogs He Wouldn't Lobby Them When He Recruited Them and Funded Them (Video)The role of covert, cynical, Bi partisan manipulation, and its corrupting, deforming class perversions, distortions in ideology has largely been hidden from public view.
We all saw what happened to the former Soviet Union after their stunning defeat in Afghanistan. Is the US on a carbon copy course to collapse? The mountains of Afghanistan are no place to fight a war against an almost invisible enemy. Nor were the jungles of Viet Nam.
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