May

9

Missouri Amtrak improvements on the horizon

May 9, 2008 | 4 Comments

Two bits of the new Missouri budget provide hope for Missouri’s beleagured Amtrak service between KC and St. Louis.  First, the state’s $8 million rail budget survived an attempted cut, so the trains will keep running.  Second, the General Assembly approved $5 million to improve capacity of the KC-STL line and hopefully reduce the delays [...]

May

7

Take the Car-Free Challenge

May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

For one week, how many solo car trips can you replace with walking, bicycling, carpooling, or riding the bus?
That is the Car-Free Challenge that Bike Week organizers are putting to the entire metro area May 10-16.  Individuals and teams of co-workers and friends compete to see how many miles and how many trips they can [...]

May

6

Black Archives on the way back

May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment

After long struggling with financial and leadership problems, the Black Archives of Mid-America may finally be poised to re-open in its new building.  The KCMO Public Library has agreed to provide much-needed operational support. If you aren’t familiar with the Black Archives, it is a wonderful yet little known resource with an impressive collection of [...]

May

5

Problems with Missouri tax structure

May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment

Show Me Progress has an interested post on the sad state of Missouri’s tax structure, where the wealthiest citizens have a lower tax rate than the everyone else and the poorest have the highest tax rate. But it’s not all income tax, a big chunk of the imbalance is in propety tax and sales tax.
Even [...]

May

2

Blogosphere does not equal Internet

May 2, 2008 | 9 Comments

There is an interesting mini-controversy over whether or not a KSHB-41 reporter got a story idea from the KCTalk.com discussion board and failed to credit the source. Regardless of the controversy itself, it is interesting how the legacy media like John Landsberg are using the terms blog and blogosphere. At best it is an example [...]

May

1

Weekend

May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Some hightlights of this weekend’s entertainment…
The stroller brigade and dog folks will battle for space in the always over-crowded Brookside Art Fair.
Yuppies will be fighting blue hairs for the best condo deals at the Urban Tour of lofts, condos, and apartments Downtown.
A wide assortment of geeks and nerds will be battling it out in Midtown [...]

May

1

KCMO wants to hide its blight abuses

May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment

Prime Buzz has an interesting bit about how the City Council has killed the City Auditors plan to produce a map of the city showing TIF districts in relation to blighted neighborhoods. That is because they already know that the map will look pretty damning. An August 2007 series by the KC Star already tells [...]

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