The Kansas City Star is a newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded in 1880 by William Rockhill Nelson. City nickname: City of Fountains, Heart of the Nation Location in the state of Missouri Country State County United States Missouri Clay/Jackson/Platte Mayor Kay Barnes Area   â€“Land   â€“Water 318 sq. ...

A young Ernest Hemingway was a reporter for the Star from October 1916 to April 1917. Though his time on the paper was brief, Hemingway credited Star editor C.G. "Pete" Wellington with changing a wordy high-schooler's writing style into clear, provocative English. Throughout his lifetime he referred to this admonition from the Star's style guide: Ernest Hemingway, 1950 Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer. ... Style guides generally give guidance on language use. ...

"Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative."

Under editor Roy A. Roberts, the paper was an avowed Republican organ, particularly aimed at cavilling local Democratic politician Harry S. Truman. Truman returned the paper's hatred. The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party [1]), is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States. ... For the victim of Mt. ...

The Star was so strong for the Republicans that the news of its first Pulitzer Prize in 1947 was given only four paragraphs. The prize-winning stories revealed the Republican National Chairman as a crook. The paper won three more Pulitzer Prizes in the 1980s under Publisher James E. Hale. Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ...

The paper, now owned by Knight-Ridder, sponsors a contest for high school journalists to this day. In recent years the Star sports section has won various awards, including for commentaries by Joe Posonoski, Mechelle Voepel and Jason Whitlock. The Knight Ridder building in downtown San José. Knight Ridder (NYSE: KRI) is an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. ... The Kansas City Star is a newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri. ...

External links

• Kansas City Star Web site
• Hemingway's favorite Kansas City Star stories.

Country song

Country musician Roger Miller had a 1968 hit called "Kansas City Star" about a local television personality who would rather stay home than become a bigger star elsewhere: Country music, formerly called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues. ... Roger Dean Miller (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. ...

I’m the number one attraction every supermarket parkin’ lot

I’m the king of Kansas City, no thanks, Omaha, thanks a lot