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		<title>Northland suburbs looking to follow KC&#8217;s lead on smoking ban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like several Northland suburbs are starting to think about following Kansas City&#8217;s lead on enacting a smoking ban.  With several suburbs almost completey surrounded by KCMO, they don&#8217;t have much choice in at least considering it. Parkville and North Kansas City have started talking about it, and Liberty is starting to gauge public [...]

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		<title>Rents on the way up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Business Journal hints that the mortgage meltdown will lead to higher rents on apartments.  People who have been foreclosed on or who are unable to get mortgages are creating more demand for apartments.  At the same time, higher construction costs mean fewer apartments are being built.  So while the Biz Journal didn&#8217;t say, the [...]

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		<title>Rental inspections begin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WDAF-TV 4 reports that the city has started conducting inspections of rental housing, as part of its new rental registration and inspection program.  20 new inspectors have been hired to make sure that landlords in several target neighborhoods keep their rental units up to code.


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		<title>Deb Hermann proposes museum tax increase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[City Councilmember Deb Hermann (1st District) is proposing a plan to boost funding for city museums by asking voters to increase the city&#8217;s museum property tax. The city currently has a very small 2 cent museum tax that goes to the Kansas City Museum.  Hermann want to raise it to 8 cents and include more [...]

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		<title>Missouri Amtrak improvements on the horizon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two bits of the new Missouri budget provide hope for Missouri&#8217;s beleagured Amtrak service between KC and St. Louis.  First, the state&#8217;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 [...]

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		<title>Take the Car-Free Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]

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		<title>Black Archives on the way back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t familiar with the Black Archives, it is a wonderful yet little known resource with an impressive collection of [...]

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		<title>Problems with Missouri tax structure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Show Me Progress has an interested post on the sad state of Missouri&#8217;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&#8217;s not all income tax, a big chunk of the imbalance is in propety tax and sales tax.
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		<title>Blogosphere does not equal Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]

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		<title>Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some hightlights of this weekend&#8217;s entertainment&#8230;
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 [...]

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