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Holiday cab WILL operate on New Year’s Eve

December 29, 2008 | 3 Comments

We had previously reported that the annual Holiday Cab program that offers free rides home for drunk folk had to be canceled this year when Coors dropped its sponsorship.  However, KCTV reports that Holiday Cab will make a brief reprise for New Year’s Eve only.  Yellow Cab, the Central State’s Beverage beer distributor, and Downtown [...]

Dec

28

New Year’s Eve

December 28, 2008 | Comments Off

When making your party plans, don’t forget that the Holiday Cab is kapoot this year.  The recession has taken its toll on the traditional free cab rides home, so plan ahead and put some cab company numbers in your phone before you party!
Westport – Midtown has been a lot more laid back since the P&L [...]

Dec

27

News roundup

December 27, 2008 | 1 Comment

KCPT-TV 19 layoffs – Six months after abruptly firing the CEO, KC’s PBS affiliate is still leaderless and hurting in the recession.  The station just layed off 10% of its workforce amid falling donations and a dragging CEO search. More at TV Barn.
Absentee landlords paying up – A new Missouri law allows KCMO to place [...]

Dec

24

Merry Christmas from your sanitation workers

December 24, 2008 | Comments Off

While they won’t come and wrap your presents or bake your Christmas ham, they will pick up unlimited trash through the end of the year. December 26-31 is a “no trash tag” period in KCMO.  The two-bag rule is suspended and you can set out as many bags of non-recyclable trash as you want without [...]

Dec

23

City budget forum review

December 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

Gone Mild has a recap of yesterday’s city budget summit where attendees discusses ways to close a $85 million gap in the city’s budget.  Financial consultants hired by the city are recommending increasing fees on things like trash collection, reeling in tax breaks, etc.  Gone Mild says most of the talk focused raising fees and [...]

Dec

21

Cuts at suburban papers

December 21, 2008 | Comments Off

The Star isn’t the only local newspaper hurting these days.  KMBC-TV 9 reports that the Independence Examiner will stop publishing on Mondays, leaving the eastern suburbs with Tuesday-Saturday service.
The Sun group of suburban newspapers has also made some cutbacks recently.  First, the Raytown Tribune was closed down and is no longer being published.  More recently [...]

Dec

19

KCK bans smoking, kindof

December 19, 2008 | 2 Comments

Last night the KCK/Wyandotte County Board of Commissioners finally got around to passing a smoking ban of sorts. The ban wouldn’t really take full effect for three years, but because businesses can apply for licenses to keep allowing smoking for three more years.  Other exceptions include the city’s many private clubs and any future casinos.
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