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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