Emanuel Cleaver: “If we get public-private partnership we don't have to go out and issue bonds or otherwise go into municipal debt.”

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

This was supposed to be one of the great celebrations. We won the Super Bowl and probably had a million or so people at the parade. In a great tragedy that has befallen all of us over and over again, a shooter has ruined the lives of many…

So that's not right.

blind, and sometimes even mean-spirited, political decisions that those who perpetuate it could easily deny it.