Dec

14

New River Market web site

December 14, 2004 | Leave a Comment

The River Market Business Association debuts a new web site with lots of info on shopping, loft living, dining, history, architecture, etc.
www.kansascityrivermarket.com

Dec

12

Sunday political roundup

December 12, 2004 | 1 Comment

From today’s Star…
Steve Kraske on Mayor Kay Barnes political future - a possible charter amendment for a third term, or challenge to US Representative Sam Graves in the 6th District. The Congressional bid looks most likely, but it’s unknown how the suburban and rural district would embrace a relative newcomer from the Ward Parkway [...]

Dec

11

The grinch that hacked Christmas

December 11, 2004 | 1 Comment

Pitch Weekly’s Tony Ortega profiles a Blue Springs boy that made it big in computer crime and ended up the state penn. Along the way Ortega recounts his own experience with eBay fraud.
Pitch Weekly: Oh Come, All Ye Gullible.

Dec

10

KCTV-5 Sleaze: Exhibit A

December 10, 2004 | 3 Comments

Shortly after winning the 10:00 pm news race for the first time in more than a decade, KCTV-5 shows again that if they don’t have any news to report they will just make shit up.
The usually respectable Dave Helling contacted a rural Kansas man under the ruse of doing a human interest story on his [...]

Dec

9

Lamar Hunt to KC: Don’t cross me again, bitch

December 9, 2004 | 4 Comments

Lamar Hunt just announced that the Wizards are for sale, citing the league’s desire for a soccer-only stadium. He would prefer to find a local owner willing to pay for the team and a new stadium, but will only wait a month for someone to step forward.
Reading between the lines, this is Lamar’s “Fuck [...]

Dec

9

Blue Springs prude patrol back in action

December 9, 2004 | 1 Comment

First it was goths, then it was cleavage on a radio station billboard, now it’s a middle school book that dares to mention teen suicide. Lois Lowry’s The Giver won the Newberry Medal for children’s literature in 1994.
KMBC-TV 9: Some parents protest book

Dec

9

Patronage at the DMV

December 9, 2004 | Leave a Comment

The political patronage is system is alive and well at the Missouri License Bureau. Most local offices are actually run by private contractors, rather than state employees. Most of those contracts go to political supporters of the Governor’s party. And it’s not a shabby business. The North Kansas City office nets [...]

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