Did your public high school have a planetarium? Yeah, mine didn't either. But Southwest High School has a fully operational Spitz 512 Planetarium projector capable of displaying the positions in the sky of all the visible planets, the sun and the moon.
Or it did have that, anyway.
I don't know about you guys, but I am so glad that the federal government is here to look after the health and well-being of workers at the much-maligned (but not malignant!) Bannister Federal Complex. Although traces of depleted uranium and beryllium have been found on both sides of the complex -- not only where workers machine it for the Kansas City Plant but also in the area where General Service Administration desk jockeys do whatever it is they do -- the Centers for Disease Control say, Don't worry! Eat your fruits and vegetables, and you'll be just fine.
Last Friday, 115 teachers with the Kansas City, Missouri, School District received notice that their contracts would not be renewed for the 2011-12 school year, district representatives confirm.
One of the axed educators, English teacher Amy Smith (not her real name), was
interviewed as part of this week's feature story on Southwest High
School.
Last Friday, 115 teachers with the Kansas City, Missouri, School District received notice that their contracts would not be renewed for the 2011-12 school year, district representatives confirm.
One of the axed educators, English teacher Amy Smith (not her real name), was
interviewed as part of this week's feature story on Southwest High
School.
Don't dismiss Wayne Knox as an "activist." Though he is the president of an advocacy group called Cold War Soldiers, whose chief objective is to obtain fair medical treatment and compensation for nuclear workers and their families, he comes with some hefty scientific credentials.
That's why we called him to help make sense of reports obtained about the radioactive substances at the Kansas City Plant in the Bannister Federal Complex.
According to a 1994 Department of Energy report, 10 "packages" of plutonium totaling 1.2 grams of the highly radioactive element are stored at the Kansas City Plant.
The report contradicts longtime assurances from the plant's owner, Honeywell, and government agencies including the National Nuclear Security Administration, the General Services Administration and EPA Region 7 that the Kansas City Plant manufactures only non-nuclear parts for nuclear weapons.
The report, Plutonium Working Group Report on Environmental, Safety and Health Vulnerabilities Associated With the Department's Plutonium Storage, Volume 1, was obtained by the University of Missouri-Kansas City's Miller Nichols Library via inter-library loan.
If you don't follow every liquor-law development in Kansas with baited breath, here's a short recap: The state is considering new laws that would let grocery and convenience stores sell full-strength booze starting in 2017. Mom-and-pop liquor-store owners are campaigning against it because they think it'll put them out of business. Economics professors say this is bullshit and that the change would actually create jobs and pump millions in tax dollars into the state.
In the 2004 movie The Aviator, Howard Hughes (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) gets his first look at a model of an airplane that Lockheed was developing. "Jiminy Cricket!" Hughes exclaims, beholding the plane's sexy, triple-tail design.
A restored "Connie" is the main attraction at the Airline History Museum in Kansas City, the subject of a Pitch feature story in February. Under the direction of art director Sarah Norwood, The Pitch has made an animated short film about the "Connie," which ruled the skies in the age before jet travel. Fasten your seat belts after the jump.
In this week's Pitch, I take a wild stab at understanding and explaining Tony Botello, the 36-year-old blogger behind Tony's Kansas City. (Conclusion: He likes boobs more than he likes the women who have them and way more than he likes Funkhouser.)
To illustrate the story, The Pitch's art director, Sarah Norwood, took a stab at re-creating The World According to Tony, which involved finding a basement, hiring some models and asking those models to please lose the majority of their shirts. More photos and a video after the jump. Or, if you like words, you can read the story.
Ron Marts' career as a funeral director in Missouri is scheduled to come to an end on March 11. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge J. Dale Youngs lifted a stay this morning on an order from the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors that had revoked Marts' license. With the revocation back in place, Marts was ordered to cease operations in 10 days.
The board revoked Marts' license in December after families cross-checked dates and documents that Marts had given them with the supposed
remains of their family members, only to discover that crematorium
records proved the ashes didn't belong to their loved ones. (See The Pitch's feature
on Marts from last week.)
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