Mar

31

Arena football on the way

March 31, 2005 | 4 Comments

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 start out at Kemper Arena and move the Sprint Center when it is [...]

Mar

31

Kansas mayoral candidates and same-sex marriage ban

March 31, 2005 | Comments Off

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 opponents
3-30-05: KCK/Wyandotte mayoral candidates and gay marriage ban supporters

Update: KCPT-TV will hold televised debates [...]

Mar

30

Danforth NYT editorial

March 30, 2005 | 2 Comments

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, fiscal responsibility,etc.
…In recent times, we Republicans have allowed this shared agenda to become secondary to [...]

Mar

29

KCTV gets a wrist slap for the fertilizer story

March 29, 2005 | 1 Comment

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 Review has admonished Helling and KCTV for the incident. They also praise St. [...]

Mar

25

Cozad replaces Nadler on Ruckus

March 25, 2005 | 3 Comments

Conservative journalist and all-around gadly Rich Nadler has abruptly left KCPT’s Ruckus and been replaced by Missouri Republican activist and political consultant Woody Cozad.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 state politics. In his debut last night, Cozad was much more restrained and [...]

Mar

25

Downtown Neighorhood Association

March 25, 2005 | Comments Off

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 where neighborhood associations are incredibly influential at City Hall on matters like streets, [...]

Mar

24

Bay Area coveting Stowers

March 24, 2005 | 3 Comments

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, which has tabled it’s campus expansion until the stem cell debate is resolved.
Stowers [...]

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