Layoff ax takes another swing through The Kansas City Star

Kansas City Star publisher Mark Zieman is becoming adept at writing memos in which he states his hope for better days ahead as he announces the involuntary departure of people who work at the paper.

Zieman announced today that the Star was “eliminating about two dozen jobs and cutting a smaller number of unfilled positions,” the fifth round of cuts in two years. Tony’s Kansas City says film critic Robert Butler is one of the casualties.