RCP Video.

Video at RCP.

NY Times:

President Obama has made his own preferences clear. In a letter to Senators Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Max Baucus of Montana, the chairmen of two key Senate committees, he wrote: “I strongly believe that Americans should have the choice of a public health insurance option operating alongside private plans. This will give them a better range of choices, make the health care market more competitive, and keep insurance companies honest.”

Investor’s Business Daily:

Climate Change: A suppressed EPA study says old U.N. data ignore the decline in global temperatures and other inconvenient truths. Was the report kept under wraps to influence the vote on the cap-and-trade bill?

Video and text of Boehner attempt at filibustering Cap-and-tax, at the Republican leader’s site.

Video at HotAir:

Actually, they might be laughing more at Gibbs’s feeble way of ducking the question than The One’s looming broken promise, but in Gibbs’s defense, what’s he supposed to say? Obama pounded McCain for wanting to pay for health care by taxing benefits, rode into D.C. promising Change, and now he’s going to eat a crap sandwich by reversing himself because it turns out personal charisma doesn’t work on hard economic numbers. So Axelrod and company have to go out and face the firing squad and “explain” via stuttering half-answers why Barry O lied about this last year. It’s a political microcosm of Obama’s economic M.O.: They borrowed political capital by pledging “no new taxes” to win the election and now down the road the bill’s finally come due.

Independent:

U2 drummer Larry Mullen believes rich and successful people are being unnecessarily humiliated when coming in and out of Ireland, describing this as “part of a new resentment of rich people in this country”. (more…)

LA Times.

Liberty:

The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill passed the House of Representatives narrowly last Friday after being largely supported by Democrats. If passed by the Senate, the bill would set a cap on carbon emissions starting in 2012 and would decrease the amount of carbon emissions by 15 percent by the year 2020. (more…)

Eagle:

The Vatican found enough evidence of a miracle in the survival of Chase Kear of Colwich that it intends to keep studying his survival, with an eye toward declaring it an official miracle, church officials say. (more…)

Source:

The Chisholm Trail Center and Kansas Sports Hall of Fame announced Tuesday the creation of the Kansas Sports Museum. (more…)

CNN:

The June 26 survey, which tallied prices at thousands of gas stations nationwide, found the current lowest average in Wichita, Kansas, at $2.40 per gallon. The highest average was in San Francisco, California, at $3.02. (more…)

Source.

KSN:

City leaders hope the new law will cut back on the city’s pit bull population and also hold owners more responsible. It completely changes the rules regarding the controversial breed. (more…)

KSN:

TOPEKA, Kansas - Shawnee County now joins what is becoming a national trend when it comes to emergency medical services.

“Moving large patients is more difficult,” American Medical Response’s Ken Keller said.

That is why Shawnee County approved a new fee schedule for EMS provider American Medical Response. AMR says when they transport an obese patient weighing more than 350 pounds, the company has to use specialized cots and equipment, which are costly.

Star:

More than just coffee is brewing at popular shops around the city. For many businesspeople, the local coffee shop has become a second office.

“I have found that it’s pretty common for people to use Homer’s as an office away from their office,” said Glenn Winkler, manager of Homer’s Coffee House in Overland Park. “Several of them work at home and like to come in and see people, and others just like to get out of their cubicles.”

Technology has made many businesses portable, said Rebecca Wills, owner and manager of Hard Bean Cafe in Grandview.

KC Star.

Source:

In his high school career, Christian, who also placed third in 6A as a junior, had established himself as one of the top talents in the Midwest. He had a 75-11 record in singles at Olathe Northwest. (more…)

Journal:

The Gardner City Council rescinded agreements for Logistics Park Kansas City, anchored by a BNSF Railway Co. intermodal freight hub. (more…)

Journal:

Chrysler Financial will close an Overland Park customer service center on Aug. 31 and eliminate about 240 jobs.

The reduction is part of Chrysler Financial’s cut of about 350 jobs, or 9 percent of its roughly 3,900-employee work force, spokeswoman Amber Gowen said Tuesday. The company will transfer the Overland Park work to two centers in Philadelphia and Dallas, she said.

Source:

YRC Worldwide Inc. and its union have swapped plans for helping the trucking company generate sufficient short-term cash. (more…)

Pitch:

A couple of weeks ago, I went to a presentation from Rob Paral, a researcher who suggests Mexican immigrants are coming to the Midwest is such large numbers that shunning or criminalizing workers from the other side of the southern border is both unrealistic and self-defeating. (more…)

AP:

OVERLAND PARK | Two Kansas businesses from opposite ends of the state have claimed honors from Gov. Mark Parkinson and the Kansas Cavalry. (more…)

AP:

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The father of highly sought Kansas basketball recruits C.J. and Xavier Henry said Tuesday his sons may not play at Kansas, after all.

Xavier Henry, a 6-foot-6 guard, is considered one of the most talented players Kansas coach Bill Self has ever recruited. Adding him to a deep and experienced squad which returns almost everyone from the team that reached the NCAA round of 16 last year would likely make the Jayhawks preseason favorites for the national championship.

Xavier and his older brother, C.J., were headed to Memphis before switching to Kansas in the wake of John Calipari’s decision to coach at Kentucky.

Eagle:

More than 100 people descended on the small town of Whiting in northeastern Kansas this past weekend to renovate Rosa Thomas’ Whiting Cafe.

Many of the town’s 206 residents also chipped in to help prepare and serve meals to volunteers.