Welcome NAACP

The NAACP has decided to hold its convention in Kansas City in 2010, despite earlier concerns that it would move the convention elsewhere because of a controversial appointment to Kansas City's Parks Board.

It's great news for the city, and I'm sure that the credit belongs to dozens of great people working behind the scenes. I won't trumpet this as a grand victory for the Mayor, nor as a defeat for the people who stirred the pot of animosity and divisiveness so vigorously, because it really is neither. It is what it is - a welcome bit of good news and the culmination of years of good work by many, many people.