Monthly Archives: March 2005

Arena football on the way

The new downtown arena has scored its first professional sports team, arena football. A local sports marketing exec has an agreement with the city and the Arena Football League to start a KC franchise in 2006. The new team will … Continue reading

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Kansas mayoral candidates and same-sex marriage ban

This week KCUR’s Up-To-Date hosted the KCK/Wyandotte and Overland Park mayoral candidates, as well as the pro and con sides of the gay marriage amendment. Both links are Windows Media files. 03-28-05: Overland Park mayoral candidates and gay marriage amendment … Continue reading

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Danforth NYT editorial

Former US Senator from Missouri and United Nations Ambassador John C. Danforth has a bold editorial in the New York Times criticizing the Republican Party’s embrace of a religious agenda at the expense of core Republican values like small government, … Continue reading

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KCTV gets a wrist slap for the fertilizer story

Last year KCTV-5′s Dave Helling got caught making shit up when he tricked a small town fertilizer salesman into selling him fertilizer for a bomb, even though the stuff he bought wasn’t actually explosive. Now the journalism watchdog Columbia Journalism … Continue reading

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Cozad replaces Nadler on Ruckus

Conservative journalist and all-around gadly Rich Nadler has abruptly left KCPT’s Ruckus and been replaced by Missouri Republican activist and political consultant Woody Cozad. While he generally remains behinds the scenes, Cozad is a very powerful figure in local and … Continue reading

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Downtown Neighorhood Association

Downtown residents now have their own neighborhood association. Businesses and developers are already well represented at City Hall, so it’s about time that the people actually living Downtown had their own voice. This is is especially important in a city … Continue reading

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Bay Area coveting Stowers

Arch City Chronicle and Roy Temple’s Fired Up notice that Missouri’s life science industry is in jeopardy simply because of the threat of a stem cell research ban. The San Francisco Bay Area has their eyes on KC’s Stowers Institute, … Continue reading

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