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30

KKFI pledge drive

January 30, 2004 | Comments Off

KKFI-FM 90.1 is currently conducting their winter pledge drive. If you aren’t familiar with KKFI, it’s an independent community radio station featuring a diverse array music and news/talk programs from volunteer DJs and hosts. The programming includes many things not heard elsewhere Kansas City, like jazz and blues, tejano, news and talk, gay [...]

Jan

30

New Missouri primary poll

January 30, 2004 | Comments Off

A new poll from SUSA shows John Kerry leading in Missouri’s Democractic presidential primary race with 41%, John Edwards 17%, Howarad Dean 17%, Wesley Clark 8%.
Clark & Edwards run strong in the Ozarks, Dean in KC, Kerry in central and eastern MO. Kerry support skews old, Dean’s support skew’s young, middle-aged voters [...]

Jan

29

New Holden/McCaskill poll

January 29, 2004 | Comments Off

KMBC-TV 9 and The Kansas City Star have released a new poll showing State Auditor Claire McCaskill with a slight lead over incumbent Governor Bob Holden in the race for the Democratic Party’s nomination. While 40% of Democrats and independents are still undecided, over half of them don’t approve of Holden’s performance so far. [...]

Jan

28

Democratic primary focus shifts to Missouri

January 28, 2004 | 1 Comment

With U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt out of the race, candidates are scrambling for position in the newly-competitive Missouri primary on February 3rd. John Edwards picked up endorsements from 5th District Councilman Terry Riley, former Kansas City Mayor the Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver, Jackson County Executive Katheryn Shields, U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton of west-central Missouri, and [...]

Jan

27

Shawnee Mission plans massive school bond

January 27, 2004 | 2 Comments

Faced with a double whammy of declining enrollment and declining finances, the beleagured Shawnee Mission School District makes an agressive to attempt to maintain the it’s high academic reputation with a $180 million bond proposal to replace and renovate dozens of buildings across the district. Shawnee Mission has traditionally been one of the metro [...]

Jan

26

Cunningham returns to KC

January 26, 2004 | 1 Comment

In a rather unusual coaching development, former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Gunther Cunningham is returning as an assistant to the man who replaced him.

Metro Sports: The return of the Gun.

Jan

23

Arena snagged

January 23, 2004 | Comments Off

Plans for a new Downtown arena are still stalled in the planning stage, despite the recent announcement of the adjacent entertainment district and H&R Block headquarters project. Thanks to our neighborhorly friends in St. Louis, some last minute provisions in the Missouri Downtown Economic Stimulus Act (MODESA) prevent that state program from being used [...]

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