May
30
Sam Graves going back to the future
May 30, 2008 | 2 Comments
Congressman Sam Graves is going back to the future in his first two TV ads in the race against challenger Kay Barnes. He is re-using the old homophobic themes from the last couple of elections, even as the issue is waning in the minds of voters. The first ad slams Barnes for a fund raiser [...]
May
29
The ghost of K-Shields
May 29, 2008 | Comments Off
Former Jackson County Executive Katheryn Shields might be gone, but her legacy lives on at Fort Osage, not just at the baseball stadium in the middle of a junk yard. One of her last acts in office was to push through a questionable project to build a conference center at historic Fort Osage, in the [...]
May
29
Mayor’s regional transit plan
May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment
Update: KC Light Rail is a very good analysis of the plan, and it’s more thorough and thoughtful than anything in the TV and print media.
Mayor Funkhouser has finally unveiled his regional transit plan, which looks like a rehash of several earlier plans. It features light rail and street car spines in the central [...]
May
27
Wanted: Copy Editor for Muralist
May 27, 2008 | 5 Comments
Call the grammar police, and snap your photos while it lasts. The Monarchs baseball team was definitely plural, not possessive.
This is a photo of a new mural going up along Truman Road between Grand and Walnut, in the Power & Light District. It matches an earlier mural a block west. Both murals serve as temporary [...]
May
27
Transit updates
May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
Let’s Go KC talks about KCK getting Sunday bus service for the first time. It’s amazing that such a transit-dependent community doesn’t already offer bus service seven days a week.
KC Light Rail discusses poll results that show a majority of metro area residents support the idea of a multi-county regional transportation tax on the Missouri [...]
May
26
Westport charging for parking
May 26, 2008 | Comments Off
KMBC-TV 9 reports an odd story about how Westport has started charging patrons for parking on Friday and Saturday nights. It’s odd because most parking lots already charge money on the weekends. The only change I noticed this weekend was the addition of parking attendents at the Mill Street Station strip mall, which includes the [...]
May
23
Local schools on Newsweek list
May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment
Several local schools have made a new list of the nation’s top public schools, as ranked by Newsweek magazine. The list is topped by two urban core schools far from the suburban districts that conventional wisdom would put higher up. Here is how the local schools rank on the list of 1300. The rankings are [...]

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