Feb

14

Old stadium ideas

February 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The Royals Authority blog has some cool renderings from the 1960s when the city was throwing around ideas for sports stadiums. One of those was a multi-purpose, Astrodome type of arena at 14th and Broadway, now the site of the proposed Performing Arts Center.

Feb

14

Local artists frustrated with city’s public art program

February 14, 2006 | 6 Comments

Discontent is rising in the local arts community over the city’s public art program. The program earmaks 1% of public construction projects’ budget for public art. While the local art scene has been getting lots of national attention for its quality and vitality, many of the city’s big public art commissions have gone [...]

Feb

13

More minor league baseball

February 13, 2006 | 4 Comments

The T-Bones have some new competition in town.  The St. Joseph Blacksnakes will be begin playing in May at the city’s historic Phil Welch Stadium.  Meanwhile, Lee’s Summit continues its quest for baseball in the southeast suburbs.
www.stjoebaseball.com

Feb

13

KC from the sky

February 13, 2006 | 2 Comments

In 2002 the Kansas City Design Center commissioned Alex McClean to do aerial photograhpy of the KC region, resulting in over 3,000 photos of our built and natural environments. Several of those photos are now available online and show very cool view of the city that most people never get to see.
Aerial photos

Feb

10

Joco poaches another company

February 10, 2006 | 8 Comments

Last week the region’s business leaders and economic development folks met for a big summit with Sprint CEO Gary Forsee and both governors, pledging to work on bringing in new companies from outside the area instead of stealing companies back and forth across the state line.  This week we learn that Johnson County has once [...]

Feb

10

New budget focuses on basic services

February 10, 2006 | 8 Comments

After the budget cuts and layoffs of the last few years, the city might finally be back to fiscal health. City Manager Wayne Cauthen has submitted a budget to the City Council that might also appease the folks clamoring for attention to the neighborhoods after several years of much-needed focus on Downtown.
The new budget [...]

Feb

8

COMBAT director gets DUI

February 8, 2006 | 6 Comments

Just when you think Jackson County government can’t get anymore ridiculous, it does.  It’s been over a year since our last post on COMBAT, Jackson County’s unique anti-drug program that uses a special sales tax to fund both law enforcement and drub abuse prevention. But this one is a doozy.  The director of the COMBAT [...]

« go back — keep looking »