A slow death for video stores

by Darryl Wilkinson Years ago I now recall a Rotary Club meeting when the guest speaker failed to materialize and yours truly was pushed into offering an impromptu program on some new fangled thing called the internet. I was smart enough to say little. But I did...

Children’s Mercy to ‘tower’ among the best

By Darryl Wilkinson If you are young and healthy, news about a $200 million project to erect a research tower at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City may seem so distant. After all, when you’re young and fortunate in matters concerning health, perhaps...

The waiting game

by Darryl Wilkinson You’d think I’d have the hang of it by now. The waiting game. Monday brought too much waiting. I awoke about 5:15 a.m. to a cell phone text informing me that we had no internet service at the office. That meant some publications...

Party hearty? …hardly!

by Darryl Wilkinson Do you plan to party hearty for New Year’s Eve? By the video of what usually happens on Times Square in New York, you get the impression that everybody’s out for a wild time this weekend. But, you guessed it, another survey — this time...

Merry Christmas: Is there really peace, goodwill to men?

by Darryl Wilkinson That’s a fair question, one much tougher than the 8-year-old Virginia posed to her father about Santa Claus 120 years ago. Times were much different then. From her home on 115 W. 95th Street in New York, little Virginia wrote to the editor of...