Subject: Belton

• Daily Briefs: Funkhouser's Budget; Wal-Mart; Someday, Overland Park Will Come For You

  February 15, 2008

• Now's Your Chance: Rock and Roll Dating Is Here!

  May 23, 2008

• An accidental journey to the unexpected world of tearooms and not-so-genteel ladies

  December 18, 2008

• Mail

  Letters from the week of March 16, 2000

  March 16, 2000

• Further Review

  November 15, 2001

• Further Review

  March 21, 2002

• One-man sewer remediation project

  On orders from the EPA, Kansas City must replace old sewer pipes and take other measures to keep rivers and streams from filling with unsafe levels of poop every time it rains. With a potential price tag of $3 billion, the city is looking for cheaper, greener solutions in an effort to reduce the amount of concrete needed to complete the project.The rain barrel, ready for action.Residents can do their part for clean water by installing rain barrels and planting rain gardens. Motivated initially b

  February 3, 2009

• Popeye Quiz

  April 13, 2006

• Missouri Libertarians: We're not terrorists!

  According to a Missouri fusion center, these kids might be terrorists.When Mike Ferguson got a late-night alert about a report linking the Libertarian Party to domestic terrorism he thought it was the work of an overzealous blogger with bad information and a penchant for conspiracy. An official publication distributed to Missouri law enforcement agencies associating his party's 2008 presidential candidate, Bob Barr, with violent extremists? Surely not. Well, the leaked memo from a fusion center

  March 24, 2009

• Talkin' Relief

  "The fact that we're sitting here on your birthday, having this conversation at all is a miracle." Billy Brimblecom's comment is directed at birthday girl Abigail Henderson, but it applies to everyone at the table: Henderson and her husband and band mate Chris Meck, California singer-songwriter Victoria Williams and, last but not least, a doctor (anesthesiologist, actually) from St. Luke's named Mark Matthews. Photo by Forester MichaelFrom left: Mark Matthews, Victoria Williams, Chris Meck, A

  April 9, 2009

• For the makers of Shatto Milk, success is cold and tasty

  September 18, 2008

• While the mayor and the ATA bicker over light rail plans, here’s one that makes sense

  May 29, 2008

• Pay 2 Play

  Hip-hop hustlers are making off with Kansas City rappers’ hard-earned cash.

  December 13, 2007

• Wing Overdose

  December 6, 2007

• The Sex Police

  An anti-porn crusader wants Kansas City juries to redefine what's obscene.

  October 25, 2007

• The Home of $5 Tabs

  January 18, 2007

• The Starboard Side

  September 14, 2006

• Their Casa es Su Casa

  Lisa and Bernardino Lara make a homey little Mexican restaurant and market in a JoCo strip mall.

  May 19, 2005

• Suspicious Minds

  When you’re desperate to find a missing person, you’ll take help from anyone.

  May 12, 2005

• It’s His World

  Five nights a week, Al Latta turns the Cigar Box into a hot spot

  February 24, 2005

• Field of Broken Dreams

  For a one-time major-league prodigy Jeff Stone, a return to the bootheel was only natural.

  July 15, 2004

• The Preach and the Prep

  Cleaver and Metzl start to make this August’s primary look like a real fight.

  July 1, 2004

• Dial M for the Mob

  A phone company chief operates dangerously close to a crime ring.

  June 10, 2004

• The Deepest Cut

  Obese patients trusted Dr. Timothy Sifers for the best weight-loss surgery available. It was too good to be true.

  February 26, 2004

• The Bellerive Tolls

  Already accused of fraud, Brent Barber sparks anger at the historic Bellerive.

  September 25, 2003

• Home Wrecker

  Brent Barber lives in a million-dollar mansion in Loch Lloyd, while people who invested in his real estate deals are trapped in financial hell.

  May 22, 2003

• War of Words

  Marcus Leach hasn't let school get in the way of his education, but Missouri bureaucrats are teaching him a thing or two about power.

  May 1, 2003

• Return Of The Prophets

  October 10, 2002

• Peña Prohibited

  Radio's talkers were kinder to Tony Muser the loser.

  June 6, 2002

• Spare Hearts

  Two lovers taught a giant automaker all about the junkyard business - but that took a back seat to Ford's feelings about romance.

  June 6, 2002

• Lover's Leap

  Skydiver Chris Jeffries fell for Tracy Richardson and, like her other lovers, landed hard.

  March 28, 2002

• Fly in the Soup

  A professional radioman lands in KKFI 90.1's melting pot of artists, Iranians, rockabilly goddesses and malcontents.

  May 31, 2001

• Cold Winner's Night

  KC soccer champs host an uninviting open house.

  February 15, 2001

• The Penile System

  The Kansas Department of Corrections' treatment program offends even sex offenders.

  October 5, 2000

• Flight Canceled

  Voting for runway options at Richards-Gebaur was an exercise in futility.

  July 27, 2000

• Truly public transportation

  Transit has become a front-burner issue for city planners, and even business leaders, as demand for a better system grows.

  January 13, 2000

• Woman dead, husband (reportedly in the midst of a sex change) injured in Belton

  Strange days in Belton. Fox 4 reports that a 36-year-old woman was found dead and her husband was found with a gunshot wound in the 400 block of Robie Drive on Tuesday night. And there's a twist: Neighbors told Fox 4 that the husband was going through a sex change and his wife wanted him out of the house. View Larger Map Neighbors claimed that the husband had already taken a woman's name, dressed in women's clothing, painted his fingernails, wore his hair in a ponytail,  took female horm

  July 15, 2009

• Goings-on this weekend

  If you don't subscribe to our dining newsletter Pitch Forks, then you are missing out. It is all that and a bag of chips. Below are just some of this weekend's activities (actually, just Saturday's) that Pitch Forks would have helped you plan for.Tomorrow is the German Somerfest at Turners Banquet Center in Belton (512 Bong, 816-322-4202), an event that promises German food, German beverages and polka bands. Somerfest is 1-11 p.m. and tickets are $10 per adult and $5 per child.Closer to the city

  July 17, 2009

• A Black Tail Affair

  August 20, 2009

• Still at war, the Army opens a new front: against soldier suicide

  August 27, 2009

• And we're back ...

  Mac Tonnies​After some technical difficulties this morning, we're finally up and running. Sad news. Mac Tonnies, author and local blogger of Posthuman Blues, has died.Coast-to-Coast AM had a nice write up about Tonnies, calling him an "acclaimed fortean writer and researcher." The prodigious blogger was a fixture of the online esoteric community with his site Posthuman Blues and was highly respected by many leading researchers who saw him as a bold and fresh new voice on the paranormal scene

  October 26, 2009

• TEAR DOWN THESE WALLS

  November 5, 2009