Mar

31

Is Downtown a neighborhood?

March 31, 2009 | 7 Comments

If you aren’t reading Urban Times, you should be.  It often has some good stuff about helping Kansas Citians becoming reacquainted with the City part of our name. The March issue has a column criticizing an unnamed City Council member for saying that “Downtown is not a neighorhood.”
It’s a cheap political shot that is often [...]

Mar

30

Republican polling shows Democrat Robin Carnahan leading for US Senate

March 30, 2009 | Comments Off

MyDD reports that Republican polling shows Democrat Robin Carnahan leading potential Republican opponents Roy Blunt and Sarah Steelman in the 2010 race for Kit Bond’s Senate seat.

Mar

28

Senators McCaskill and Dodd wager on Mizzou-UConn game via Twitter

March 28, 2009 | 3 Comments

Last night Senators Claire McCaskill and Chris Dodd arranged a bet on the Missouri-Connecticut basketball game via Twitter. At stake is pizza from New Haven and barbeque from KC’s own Arthur Bryant’s.
Dodd: “@clairecmc How about a friendly wager on tomorrow’s Elite Eight game between my Huskies and your Tigers?”
Dodd: “@clairecmc I’ll put up some New [...]

Mar

27

Cindy Circo Blog

March 27, 2009 | 1 Comment

5th District At-Large Councilmember Cindy Circo has joined the blogosphere.  She starts off with a lengthy post on the city’s new budget.  Hopefully Councilmember Circo will stick with the blogging and use it as a tool communicate with constituents.
www.cindycirco.blogspot.com

Mar

26

KC scores electric vehicle assembly plant

March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment

KCMO has landed one of the first US plants for assembly of all-electric vehicles.  Smith Electric Vehicles US will retrofit part of the  American Airlines Overhaul base at KCI to manufacture plug-in electric delivery trucks.  In addition to the company’s own Smith Newton delivery van, they will also build the Transit Connect truck for Ford.
This [...]

Mar

26

Live-Tweeting the Willie Aames garage sale

March 26, 2009 | 3 Comments

In case you don’t know, Willie Aames of Eight is Enough, Charles in Charge, and Celebrity Fit Club lives in Olathe, KS in the southwest suburbs. Today he’s having a garage sale and attracting a huge crowd.  Someone is live-tweeting the sale, so we can all follow along voyeuristically.  It also looks like the whole [...]

Mar

26

Bus service cuts

March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment

Yesterday we learned the magnitude of cuts to Metro bus service.  The City Council is cutting funding to the KCATA as sales tax revenues decline and part of the transit tax is being to diverted to pay for traffic signals and TIF projects.
Let’s Go KC: Cuts to bus service announced.

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