Kansas City Stack
News and opinion from two veteran Heartland journalists. Dave Helling is a longtime TV and print guy pursuing transparency and accountability. Melinda Henneberger writes mostly about wrongs and won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2022.
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In case over whether KCKPD detectives withheld evidence, jury awards Pete Coones’s widow $18 million
By Melinda Henneberger
“Finally starting to relax!” Pete Coones captioned this photo, which he posted on Facebook about a month after his 2020 release from prison.
UPDATE: There aren’t very many days in which what actually happens in a co...
‘Predators’ are a top concern in Kansas. Except when Trump is accused for 28th time
By Melinda Henneberger
Democratic Kansas gubernatorial nominee Cindy Holscher with KCKPD Roger Golubksi rape survivor Ophelia Williams, after a pre-dawn vigil in December 2025
If you only had campaign ads and speeches to go on, you’d thin...
Craptastic: Yes, political ads are worse than ever
By Dave Helling
America’s political class has apparently spent more than $11.2 billion on advertising and commercials for this midterm, with about a week to go. That’s the most money ever, more than the 2024 presidential campaign.
And it’...
The top-down cram-down
By Dave Helling
This will be a critical week in the process of building a new multi-billion dollar Chiefs football stadium in western Wyandotte County.
Since 2025 the team and Kansas officials have negotiated something called the “Definit...
Two Catholic bishops suggest they were snookered into Trump photo op
By Melinda Henneberger
The unmistakable takeaway from the above photo of 12 Catholic bishops praying over, with and for President Trump on Oct. 22, just days before the midterms, is that this was a tacit endorsement.
Of someone who gets...
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News and opinion from two veteran Heartland journalists. Melinda Henneberger writes mostly about wrongs and won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2022. Dave Helling is a longtime TV and print guy pursuing transparency and accountability.
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