Hello and welcome to the 99th edition of the Weekly Vine. First, a word of apology to the non-football readers who opened this newsletter hoping for politics, pop culture, history, capitalism, ...

I am an admirer of grand old houses. I live downtown, just blocks away from some of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, where lumber barons and early merchants built their houses when the city was ...

Adobe is no longer inevitable.

A blog about Kansas City politics and culture.

As far as I know, most of my people were farmers. On both my parents' sides, my Scandinavian ancestors came across the ocean looking for better topsoil. I know immigrants came for many reasons-- to ...

Ideology is ironically trumping science in the heat wave cooking Europe. America’s progressives should take note.

I am an admirer of grand old houses. I live downtown, just blocks away from some of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, ...