Oct

21

Star Blogs

October 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment

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 Barn - from TV reporter Aaron Barnhart.
Faith Matters - from religion report Bill Tammeus.

Oct

20

Sprawl builds new high schools

October 20, 2005 | 12 Comments

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 third school, LS West, and is already making plans for their fourth in 2009! [...]

Oct

18

Committee for County Progress goes online

October 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment

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

Oct

16

Stephenson’s for sale

October 16, 2005 | 8 Comments

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 people from miles around, it now has to compete in a brutal new [...]

Oct

14

Westport goes online

October 14, 2005 | 1 Comment

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

Oct

12

Pro-Science forces go on the offensive

October 12, 2005 | 1 Comment

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 a constitutional amendment to definitively legalize stem cell research, as well as outlaw human [...]

Oct

11

Downtown baseball proposal launched

October 11, 2005 | 10 Comments

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 Truman Sports Complex and it’s surrounding trailer courts and junk yards don’t have. [...]

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