…or having a republican state representative who continually trips himself.

In yesterday’s Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal:

6/7/2010 1:38:00 PM

Star-Journal Newspaper of the Year

Kansas City – The Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal received the Newspaper of the Year Award from the Kansas City Press Club….

….Individual winners and their awards for The Star-Journal…

….Gold, Beat Reporting. This award for coverage of state government drew these comments from judges, “Great story on state rep owing taxes. Other stories also solid coverage of government.”

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[emphasis added]

Oh, that story:

Denny Hoskins: Noun, Verb…CPA? (November 12, 2009)

I think I was way too nice to Denny Hoskins when I gave him the benefit of the doubt (November 13, 2009)

Denny Hoskins (r) in the 121st District: who is to to blame for all this misfortune? (November 16, 2009)

Denny Hoskins (r) in the 121st District: “You must have been misinformed.” (November 17, 2009)

Denny Hoskins (r) in the 121st District: unhappy constituents write letters to the editor (November 24, 2009)

Sincerely, congratulations to the folks at the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal. Even though we give them grief at times, we greatly appreciate their efforts and the vast improvement of their content and reporting since their previous management.