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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
After writing the February cover story for Urban Times about Kansas City Manager Wayne Cauthen, I expected to see some backlash from local political pundits, either in print, in blogs or perhaps hear something inadvertently on talk radio. Mr. Cauthern apparently is quite the polarzing figure I learned in researching his story. Of course, all public officials are subject to criticism and I knew the long road he’d gone down with the mayor in seeing his contract renewed, but some of the comments I read were still rather vicious. Nothing I read was comparable to the man I interviewed and wrote about.
This week, I searched under some key terms to see what, if any, negative remarks would show up. I found only one reference to the Urban Times Person of the Year Article. I do not know Yael Abouhalkah at The Kansas City Star or Tom Ryan, a Crossroads resident who commented on Yale’s blog, but Mr. Ryan’s comments were somewhat flattering to the piece. I’ve provided a link in this post so I can have a record of the occurence. Scroll a bit and you’ll see.
