Sep

27

6th District profile

September 27, 2004 | Leave a Comment

The Star has a profile of the candidates in Missouri’s 6th Congressional District, Republican incumbent Sam Graves and Democratic challenger and former Clay County Commissioner Charlie Broomfield. Missing from this story are the allegations of dirty politics that dog Graves’ career.
The candidates will hold their only metro-area debate on October 21st at Liberty High [...]

Sep

24

Huge Lenexa meth lab

September 24, 2004 | 1 Comment

Police in posh Lenexa have busted what Channel 9 is calling the biggest meth lab ever found in the metro area. KCTV 5 has the story and video. Sounds like haughty Jocos might have to put away the Independence red neck jokes for a while.

Sep

23

Do Over

September 23, 2004 | 1 Comment

The promised do-over for the fizzled 4th of July fireworks on the riverfront will take place Friday night during the Oktoberfest on the Wasserfront at Berkley Riverfront Park. Admission is $5 or three cans of food, but the fireworks will be visible outside of the park.

Sep

23

Eastern Jack update

September 23, 2004 | Leave a Comment

This week’s neighborhood edition of The Star features a huge roundup of stories on development in eastern Jackson County, where they’re doing their best to carve some Johnson County-style sprawl out of the beautiful hills and woodlands of western Missouri.

Rural areas give way to development
Suburban, say hello to new urban

Remaining development sites lack allure
Developers [...]

Sep

23

Bistate II afraid of the tough questions?

September 23, 2004 | 2 Comments

Shortly after launching the Bistate II campaign last week, the votebig.org forum began getting pointed questions about the proposal, and the decision to renovate Kauffman Stadium in favor of a new Downtown baseball stadium. Instead of replying to the posters and explaining their position, Bistate boosters just pulled the forum off of the web [...]

Sep

22

Twinkies and Ho-Hos go belly up

September 22, 2004 | 2 Comments

You haven’t heard of Intersate Bakeries Corp., but you have heard of Hostess, Twinkies, Wonder Bread, and other products from this local company. Today IBC filed bankruptcy, a victim of the low carb trend and bad management. It’s one of the region’s few remaining Fortune 500 companies, with headquarters in Midtown Kansas City [...]

Sep

21

Local events added to BlogKC

September 21, 2004 | 1 Comment

Local events have been added to the left side via the Upcoming.org service, a free service that allows anyone to post concerts, festivals, lectures, etc. Go over and add your stuff to the KC calendar.

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