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31

Porn Tax

January 31, 2005 | 3 Comments

State Senator Matt Bartle (Republican from Lee’s Summit) is on a morality roll this year. Forget about our crumbling roadsd, bankrupt schools, and uninsured – his own religious agenda is far more important to Senator Bartle. First there is his annual attempt to ban stem cell research and destroy the state’s promising biotechnology [...]

Jan

25

KC Indymedia back online

January 25, 2005 | Comments Off

The Kansas City Independent Media Center is back online after an extended hardware-induced absence. The site keeps up with the local activist community and news that isn’t covered by the mainstream news media.
kcindymedia.org

Jan

25

Nutter Vision

January 25, 2005 | Comments Off

Jim Nutter, Jr. of the James B. Nutter & Co. mortgage firm is getting into showbiz. He’s starting a real estate show on KSHB-TV 41 that will show homes for sale and explore local neighborhoods. The first episode will even include local historian Jane Flynn. It will air Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

Jan

22

City sues UMB Bank over arena site

January 22, 2005 | 8 Comments

Negotiations for the city acquire the UMB Bank branch at 14th and Grand for the new arena have broken down and the city has filed a condemnation lawsuit to force the issue. UMB CEO Mariner Kemper has said several times that the bank wants to cooperate on the arena project, as long as it [...]

Jan

22

Stupid idea of the week

January 22, 2005 | 4 Comments

Convention center officials and Councilman Chuck Eddy are pushing the stupid idea of pushing food carts further away from Bartle Hall and possibly creating no-vendor zones in other areas of Downtown. This is counter to all of the work being done to increase street life Downtown. If anything, we need more vendors to [...]

Jan

18

Carnage at 12th & Oak

January 18, 2005 | 3 Comments

City Manager Wayne Cauthen shook up City Hall again today with a proposal to consolidate several departments and cut almost 100 positions, saving $6 million in a city budget that often runs tens of millions out of balance.
While certainly painful for city workers, it’s a needed dose of bitter medicine. The city [...]

Jan

18

School funding debate

January 18, 2005 | 2 Comments

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an excellent article about the issues behind the school funding debate. This is a great background piece for some info on the current crisis, how we got here, and how we might fix it.

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