Jun

17

Union Station Massacre anniversary and documentary

June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Today is the 75th anniversary of the Union Station Massacre, an infamous shootout between law enforcement and the Kansas City Mob in 1933. Tonight the station will show a new documentary about the massacre called Shooting Back in Time. It is produced by Terrance O’Malley, who created the excellent Nelly Don documentary that played at [...]

Jun

16

Blunt says F-You to KC air quality

June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment

Last week Governor Matt Blunt issued a big F-You to the air quality in Kansas City when he denied a request for our region to be exempted from Missouri’s law requiring gasoline to contain 10% ethanol. Ethanol produces more air pollution, which is big problem here in KC where we already struggle comply with federal [...]

Jun

12

Poo overflow postpones Flush Creek dragon boat races

June 12, 2008 | 6 Comments

Recent heavy rains have caused sewer overflows into Flush Brush Creek, forcing Saturday’s dragon boat races to be postponed until July 26. That’s too bad, because the floating turds would have added an obstacle course element to the boat races.

Jun

12

Redrawing the school district map

June 12, 2008 | 4 Comments

One consequence of the transfer of western Independence and Sugar Creek from KCMO School District to the Independence School District is the need to redraw the lines for subdistricts used to elect school board members.  Most of the alternatives are just variations on the current situation - two districts west of Troost for the predominately [...]

Jun

11

Finding a transit leader

June 11, 2008 | 4 Comments

Today The Kansas City Post raised a great topic for discussion - finding someone to lead the charge regional transit.  Mark’s suggestion is Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders, and it actually sounds pretty good.    Mayor Funkhouser has done a good job getting it on the agenda, but eventually we need a cheerleader to out and [...]

Jun

11

NKC bans smoking

June 11, 2008 | 3 Comments

The City Council in North Kansas City has banned smoking in that city, and like KCMO it includes a ban on casinos as soon as all other casinos are covered.  Riverside is now the only casino city without a smoking ban

Jun

10

Lee’s Summit looks to add more bus service

June 10, 2008 | 1 Comment

KC Light Rail and Let’s Go KC both point out an article about Lee’s Summit buses to Downtown KC are running and capacity and the city is scrambling to find money for more buses - and make the argument that this is exactly the kind of problem that would be solved by regional transit funding.
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