Jul

15

Water/sewer bonds

July 15, 2005 | 2 Comments

Voters’ next big opportunity to alleviate the city’s massive backlog of infrastructure repairs is coming up on August 2nd when they will vote on half a billion dollars for water and sewer repairs. Questions 1 and 2 would allow the water department to issue bonds over the next 10 years for a big [...]

Jul

14

Strip club restrictions become law

July 14, 2005 | 12 Comments

Governor Blunt has signed into law the strip club restrictions passed by the General Assembly in May. Among the new rules: no more full nudity (pasties and g-strings for all), no more lap dances, and no customers within 10 feet of the dancers. Clubs are already preparing to sue the state, so the [...]

Jul

14

License Bureau mess continues

July 14, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The Downtown office of the Missouri License Bureau remains closed while Governor Blunt searches for a new politcal patron to take it over. It’s the last of the state-owned offices to be handed over to private contractors, most of which are also major Blunt campaign contributors.
However, this is not a Democratic or [...]

Jul

13

Hooters replacing the Flea Market?

July 13, 2005 | 20 Comments

This comes one comes from those crazy Internets, so reader beware… The rumor mill is buzzing about the possibility of Hooters replacing the beloved Westport Flea Market. Supposedly the Holiday Inn next door is being renovated and they want to buy the Flea Market’s property and put a Hooters there. Reps from [...]

Jul

13

Ironic, don’t ya think?

July 13, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Normally there wouldn’t be anything unusual about the ultra snooty Cass County, MO village of Loch Lloyd enacting a $15,000 license fee to discourage plebeian fireworks stands on it’s streets of gold. However, this “Mission Hills South” enclave was founded by former fireworks salesman Harry Lloyd. While BlogKC is certainly no linguist, we [...]

Jul

11

More MoDOT Improvements

July 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment

MoDOT has released a list of projects for the next five years, it’s biggest construction plan in history. Here are some of the local highlights, many made possible by Amendment 3.

Renovate and/or replace the Paseo Bridge (finally!)
Repaving I-70 east to Lafayette County.
Repairing/replacing Truman Road and other bridges over the south and west legs of [...]

Jul

11

Riverwalk, Interrupted.

July 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The Star delves into the failure of Brush Creek to attract many visitors in its first 10 years…
The Star: Seeking Brush Creek’s promise and
Actually, this water’s cleaner than Venice.

The millions spent on the flood control project didn’t do anything to address the city’s ancient combined sanitary/storm sewers that occiasionally divert raw sewage into the creek [...]

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