Apr

24

Troost Festival Video

April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Patchchord.com has some great video of the recent Troost Avenue Festival.

Apr

22

Enron, the reprise

April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments

The gigantic Enron mess still lingers in Columbia, where the University of Missouri has been struggling with how to handle a $2 million endowed profressorship donated by the late Ken Lay.  Despite calls to return the money or donate to Enron victims, MU has hung onto the money and finally filled the job.

KC Star: MU [...]

Apr

21

Google Transit for the City of Fountains

April 21, 2008 | 11 Comments

Google Maps has a great feature that lets you map out directions from Point A to Point B using public transportation, and they have just added Metro bus routes for the KC Area Transportation Authority. The coverage includes all most of the metro area - KCMO, KCK, and the Missouri suburbs.  The only missing area [...]

Apr

20

Rep. Salva reverses course on ticket scalping

April 20, 2008 | 4 Comments

Those tweens distraught over Hannah Monana tickets sure are a powerful lobby in Jeff City.  KMBC-9 reports that Rep. Stan Salva is sponsoring legislation to outlaw ticket scalping.  KMBC failed to mention that less than a year ago Salva voted to legalize ticket scalping….

Apr

19

Big Shake-up on the City Council

April 19, 2008 | 2 Comments

Yesterday Mayor Funkhouser shook up the City Council and the city’s light rail planning by removing Councilmember Ed Ford from his chairmanship of the Transportation and Infrastructure Commitee. While the mayor denies it, this move sure looks like payback for Ford’s leadership in the effort to keep City Manager Wayne Cauthen. The new chair, Russ [...]

Apr

18

Go to Earth Day, but buy a carbon offset

April 18, 2008 | 11 Comments

Today is Earth Day, and there are celebrations all over the metro area. The big regional event is not in a central location, but out in the far western suburbs. They have no bus service and difficult bicycle/pedestrian access, so you might want to buy some carbon offsets to mitigate the impact of driving there.  [...]

Apr

17

Update on KC Climate Protection Plan

April 17, 2008 | 3 Comments

Show Me Progress has an update on the progress of KCMO’s climate protection plan.  They also have audio of Dennis Murphy, the city’s Chief Environmental Officer, explaining the program at recent conference in St. Louis.
The city is actually doing a pretty decent job with things like alternative fuels, green roofs, etc.  Unfortunately there is little [...]

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