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April 28, 2006 |
- Rollerderby season begins Satuday night.
- Johnson County is under consideration for the second US Legoland amusement park, but it’s unknown how visitors will react to biege and mauve legos.
- Tensions between Mayor Barnes and City Auditor Mark Funkhouser boil over as Funkhouser criticizes Credit Card Kay’s mounting city debt while inadvertently appearing in Stan Glazer photo opp.
- Meanwhile, Funkhouser releases an audit detailing the sad state of our sidwalks.
- The River Market neighborhood is losing another of its pioneers when River Market Fittness closes at the end of the month. Appareantly they couldn’t keep up with Scott Fitness across the street.
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You couldn’t resist. It isn’t so much JoCo that has at times objected to outlandish color schemes. Some cities within the county have stricter guidelines than others. Same is true in Jackson County. Wasn’t the Plaza somewhat recently in the news regarding the mounting of KC Art Institute Students’ artwork from the parapet of his Plaza building? You seem to have missed the logo and focus of this blog, that being KCMO. At least that is what you like to tell me when I point out your anti-JoCo bias.
*shrugs*
william, you never fail to crack me up.
Yeah, you tell him…
How DARE he write about whatever he wants on his OWN blog? The nerve of some people…
Strange how his focus changes under scrutiny. But I like people with nerve. I don’t particularly care for snide and cliche humor that perpetuates, for no reason, the unwarranted animosity between two halves of what should be a more unified community.
LegoLand looks to be a good fit for JoCo. Given the size of the project (440 acres?) I think they can meld adequately into JoCo’s image. It will seemingly be modeled after the STAR initiatives that figured into Wyandotte County’s success with the Legends project near the racetrack. But with admission projected at $45 for adults and $35 for children I doubt I’ll be visiting unless I’m put under some sort of familial blackmail.
On Sidewalks: At least you have sidewalks. Many streets in my area offer little more than a ditch to dive into to avoid all those JoCo SUV’s and their cell-phoned drivers (not to mention those punks on their skateboards.)
Like skateboarding, most people grow out of any real interest in RollerDerby. But there’s no accounting for taste. Talk about an industry profit. Look at the WWF. The Boarder industry can only dream about those kinda bucks.
>Like skateboarding, most people grow out of any real interest in RollerDerby.
Thank gawd I haven’t yet. And hopefully never will…
William, the burning question is why you make this blog part of your daily read if it infuriates you so much. The attacks on JoCo in this blog are nothing compared to your defend-JoCo-at-all-costs replies. I grew up there and guess what? In the 70s it was actually a nice place, with trees, low taxes, light traffic, etc. Over the years, the county “leaders” have gone after every scheme and business attraction they could find, whored themselves to developers, and expanded wildly all over the south. For all this development, the taxes are HIGHER. Wasn’t the selling point originally that attracting business would buffer the tax rate? You need to look inwardly more and stop worrying about what people outside the county are saying.
Sid-
“infuriates”? The blog itself does not infuriate me. Just the anti-JoCo bias. I’ve grown up here, left, and returned. I don’t so much defend JoCo as I try to balance the tired cliches that continue to exist despite our converging realities. Still plenty of trees in my neighborhood. I have one aproaching 100 feet tall in my backyard and my property taxes are not a burdan. You need to look outward more and start worrying more about what people outside your county are saying.
William seems to be incapable of understanding sarcasm. We use lots of sarcasm here for all kinds of stories and have been critical of many Jackson County issues. But William only notices one narrow slice of perceived slights.
This is not a newspaper, TV station, or other “journalism” enterprise. Blogs are individual opinion. There should be no expectation of objectivity or fairness.
You have no idea of what I am capable or incapable of understanding. Personal opinions posted in a public forum are subject to criticism.
I do not expect fairness. I endeavor to expose unfairness. You are correct. You are not a newspaper, a TV station. But blogging is a form of “journalistic” enterprise. Individual opinions are worth nothing without objectivity or fairness.
As for focusing on JoCo issues… That is what I know. I’ll let those with more direct contact with Jackson County defend the reality of those things that affect me less directly.
If you cannot take the criticism, perhaps you shouldn’t dish out the cliche insults.
RollerDerby? Is this the kind of *culture* we can continue to expect from KCMO? I’d rather listen to a good Kansas “spoons” player over at the Over The Rainbow PAC.
Spoons! That sounds just about right!
Probably has an affinity for “jug band” music too!
Now THAT’S culture…
My “jug” is a tuba. Takes a lot of “culture” to fill one of those. ;-p
Oh…. and Sid….
The burning question is why you should care what I make part of my daily reading habits. Such a dertirmination would require more time than has benn yet allowed.