Feb

20

Coastal Cupcake Craze Comes to Cowtown

February 20, 2006 | 12 Comments

Starbucks didn’t do it. Neither did World Market, Whole Foods, ice bars, Nordstrom’s, tea houses, or martini bars. Nor will the impending arrival of Crate & Barrell or the rumored IKEA. Kansas Citians’ inferiority complex is very vulnerable to comparison with other cities’ retail options and cultural fads. But now that we [...]

Feb

20

Mayor boycotts the mayors’ prayer breakfast

February 20, 2006 | 20 Comments

Mayor Barnes is skipping this year’s Mayors Prayer Breakfast.  Last year the normally inclusive event took a suprisingly hateful turn when construction poobah and keynote speaker Bill Dunn Sr. launched into a tirade on declining moralty, “activist” judges, gays, and the ACLU.  Barnes lobbied the organizers to amend the rules to prevent the interfaith event [...]

Feb

18

George Woods starting online talk radio

February 18, 2006 | 3 Comments

The former host at KMBZ-AM 980 is launching his own Internet-based radio station on March 6. RadioGeorge will start off with a two hour local talk show, as well as the usual news and weather bulletins.
RadioGeorge - www.radiogeorge.com
George Woods’s info - www.georgewoods.com

Feb

17

Lance is watching you

February 17, 2006 | 7 Comments

Local blogs Me, My Life, and Infrastructure and Worst Weather Ever start some Photoshop fun with the 8 story Lance Armstrong banner on the side of American Century’s headquarters at 45th & Main.

Feb

16

Good journalism

February 16, 2006 | 2 Comments

Even with all of the sensationalism on the local airwaves these days, actual journalism sometimes does get through. Kudos to Jim Flink at KMBC-TV 9 for an excellent piece on Tracy Pierce, who died after his insurance company refused all requests to treat the man’s cancer and wouldn’t even pay morphine in his final [...]

Feb

15

Stadium F.U.D.

February 15, 2006 | 20 Comments

Signs are going up for the stadium tax campaign, and it looks like they may be taking the FUD route, spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt with a campaign slogan of Save Our Stadiums. The www.saveourstadiums.com web site isn’t active yet, so we don’t know exactly what the campaign will be just yet. One thing [...]

Feb

15

Our long national county nightmare is over

February 15, 2006 | 2 Comments

Katheryn Shields announces she won’t seek a fourth term as Jackson County Executive and endorses State Senator Charles Wheeler’s campaign for the job. A race for mayor of KCMO appears to still be an option for Shields in 2007.

KC Star story and video
KMBC-TV 9 report
Independence Examiner story

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