If you’ve been listening to KCUR lately, you know from the plugs that the NPR show “Day to Day” will be broadcast live this week from Union Station. In preparation, the show’s host, Alex Chadwick, filed a couple of reports on our fair city this afternoon.
The first was this interview with hometown writer Calvin Trillin, who tells Chadwick that KC is “the center of the world, of course.” Trillin has always been a cheerleader for Kansas City, and Chadwick joined in. After visiting, Chadwick said he came to this conclusion: “It’s an American city that actually seems to be functioning.” Hey, nobody tell him about the Victorian-era sewer system or KC’s legendary potholes.
The Trillin interview is followed by this dispatch from KCUR’s own Sylvia Maria Gross, who explains to the national audience the differences between KCK and KCMO. “People take the distinction around here very seriously,” she explains. Some locals will surely hear plenty of hyperbole in the report, whereas others may not detect enough vitriol. Gross even says she heard a story about a girl whose father wouldn’t let her move to the Missouri side for fear she’d be raped. She ends by adding: “There’s one thing everyone in the two cities can agree on: They can’t stand people from the ritzy suburbs.” The ritzy neighborhoods in Kansas, Sylvia, or Missouri? – Eric Barton
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Haha, good one Pork Sausage. Way to stick it to ADM: Supermarket to the World, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and listeners like you.
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