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- The Boyhood of Abraham Lincoln Program
Monthly Archives: October 2005
Star Blogs
The Star has joined the blogosphere with four new blogs… Crime Scene KC – daily crime updates from the city and suburbs. Unfettered Letters – a place to comment on letters to the editor than run in the newspaper. TV … Continue reading
Posted in Media
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Sprawl builds new high schools
While schools close in the urban core and inner-ring suburban districts like Shawnee Mission and Hickman Mills struggle to gracefully manage declining enrollments, the outer suburbs continue building new schools to accomodate transient suburbanites. In 2004 Lee’s Summit opened their … Continue reading
Posted in Education
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Committee for County Progress goes online
The Committee for County Progress now has a web site. The CCP is a progressive Democratic club that focuses on good government and government reform in Jackson County, ideas that seem in short supply of late. www.committeeforcountyprogress.org
Posted in Jackson County, Politics
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Stephenson’s for sale
The Star reports that Eastern Jackson County landmark Stephenson’s Apple Farm Restaurant is for sale. The restaurant is in jeopardy from the advancing age of it’s founders and the advancing sprawl of Independence and Lee’s Summit. Long a destination for … Continue reading
Posted in Arts/Entertainment, Suburbs
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Westport goes online
The Westport Community Improvement District finally has a web site to go with the shiny new rent-a-cop cars that cruise their 4 block stretch of Penn. www.westportkcmo.com
Posted in Arts/Entertainment, Midtown/Plaza
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Pro-Science forces go on the offensive
After spending the last few years playing defense against State Senator Matt Bartle and other wingnuts hellbent on criminalizing scientific research, Missouri’s scientific community is finally going on the offensive. The Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures is now pushing for … Continue reading
Downtown baseball proposal launched
The Downtown Council has released the details of their latest proposal for a downtown baseball stadium. It focuses on the greater return on taxpayer investment that a downtown stadium would have through spin-off development and increases sales/property taxes, somthing the … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Sports
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