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30

Record house construction

July 30, 2004 | 2 Comments

Construction of new houses in the Kansas City area continues on a record pace set last year. In what may be a surprise to many, the city of Kansas City, MO is actually building more houses than any other in the metro area – due to residential booms Downtown and in the Northland. [...]

Jul

28

Weaver falls in line

July 28, 2004 | Comments Off

Just days after race-baiting the arena debate, Councilwoman Saundra McFadden-Weaver wore a very smug face as she explained that her concerns about minority participation arena construction had been answered. Since this is requried by city law anyway, perhaps it was Weaver’s own attention seeking that had been satisfied.
WDAF-TV 4: City councilwoman changes her mind [...]

Jul

27

Blogging the political conventions

July 27, 2004 | 1 Comment

This year bloggers are getting unprecedented access to the political conventions, and a legitimized role in the national political discourse. So what is the KC Star doing to include the perspective of the KC blogosphere? Their convention coverage provides a link to a blogger from Wichita, who talks about the Kansas delegation gathering [...]

Jul

27

Councilmember Weaver calls the arena racist

July 27, 2004 | 3 Comments

Councilmember Saundra McFadden-Weaver somehow managed to play the race card in announcing her opposition to the proposed Sprint Center arena. Weaver claimed that the rental car tax would fall disproportionately on African Americans and other minorities in the urban core, but had zero evidence to backup her attention-seeking claim. Fortunately saner heads are [...]

Jul

26

KC area concealed carry permits

July 26, 2004 | Comments Off

Today Clay County becomes the second metro-area county accepting applications for concealed gun permits. Platte County begain taking applications earlier this month. Jackson County is still waiting on a resolution to it’s argument that the concealed carry permits are an unfunded state mandate.

Jul

24

Primary endorsements

July 24, 2004 | 1 Comment

Claire McCaskill just scored the endorsement of the state’s biggest newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, adding to earlier nods from the Springfield News-Leader and Columbia Daily Tribune. Update, today The Star endorsed McCaskill, completing her sweep of the states largest newspapers. However, the paper reports that at least one poll has Claire trailing [...]

Jul

24

New alternative bookstore

July 24, 2004 | 2 Comments

A new alternative/radical bookstore is now open downtown in The Crossroads neighborhood. The Crossroads Infoshop is at 1830 Locust with books, shirts, novelties, speakers, meetings, etc.

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