Oct

20

KCMO to test new parking technology

October 20, 2007 | 6 Comments

The city is soliciting bids for a demonstration project of multi-space parking stations in Downtown’s Library District. Such a system would eliminate individual parking meetings and replace them Pay and Display machines where you pay for parking and get a receipt that goes in the window of your car.  The advantage for motorists is that […]

Oct

19

39th Street is bringing sexy baaaack

October 19, 2007 | 10 Comments

West 39th Street is getting all sexed-up these days.  Recently an upscale sex toy store called Wink opened between Terrace and Wyoming Streets, next to Boomerang. Now they are joined by a reincarnation of Deborah’s, a leather and fetish boutique formerly located in the Northland.  It’s further east in the odd strip mall near Southwest […]

Oct

18

KMBC debiggens web site

October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

ABC affiliate KMBC-TV 9 has updated their web site with a little bit cleaner look, fewer graphics, and less non-news clutter.  They have also dropped the silly kansascitychannel.com branding that owners Hearst-Argyle has used at their TV stations for years, reverting back to kmbc.com.

Oct

16

How KC can start worrying and reject the bomb

October 16, 2007 | 6 Comments

Maybe we just missed the front page article The Star published — or more likely, there never was one? — but the Federal government plans to build nuclear weapons near Richards-Gebaur Airport in south Kansas City. According to this brief in today’s Star, “Most of the bomb parts that are non-nuclear are now made at […]

Oct

14

Arena debut is A-OK

October 14, 2007 | 15 Comments

So it looks like the Sprint Center opened to rave reviews, suburbanites found parking, and the world continued to revolve.  It’s interesting that after weeks of whipping up an “Oh My Fucking God Where Will People Park?” frenzy, the Star couldn’t find a single Northlander or Leawoodie to complain about the horrors of parking and […]

Oct

12

Two parking spaces per employee?

October 12, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Federal government wants to build a new office building Downtown and move about 1600 employees from other offices in the metro area.  There are two competing sites, one in the proposed East Village redevelopment in the east end of the Loop, and one along Berkley Park on the riverfront.  The Feds prefer the East […]

Oct

11

Stem Cell Smackdown, Round 2

October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment

MissouriNet reports that Secretary of State Robin Carnahan has approved for circulation an initiative petition limiting stem cell research in the state, basically to specifically ban human cloning. Heard of Cures Without Cloning? Get ready for a deluge of questionably-worded mailers with lots of sad, infant pictures in your mailbox if this thing takes off […]

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