KC Bike InfoKC Bike Info wants you to fight head-in angle parking in Columbus Park. A proposed mixed-use development in Columbus Park would use angle parking on 5th Street -- a BikeKC route. Why fight it? KC Bike info says it's dangerous and offers this handy guide. But the gist, head-in angle parking is dangerous because cars are blindly backing into traffic and possibly striking a bicyclists. They say back-in angle parking is a better option (see the photo above).Sounds like they have an uphil
Eight members of the Kansas City City Council unanimously decided to waste spend $500,000 to study whether building a 1,000 room convention hotel is a good idea. The man with the shiniest head, Terry Riley, tried to delay the hotel study vote, and councilwoman Sharon Sanders Brooks seconded. But only Riley, SSB and Deb Hermann voted in favor of waiting. Voting to spend the money on the study: Ed Ford, Melba Curls, Beth Gottstein, Jan Marcason and John Sharp. Absent were oversized novelty Mayor M
For the Citadel Plaza development, it appears the Wednesday night curveball is now par for the course.
Last week, the day before the Kansas City City Council was set to hand over $20.5 million in taxpayer dollars to the developers of a proposed $90-million shopping center at 63rd Street and Prospect Avenue, city finance director Jeffrey Yates recommended the city raid the capital improvements pot to find the cash.
That didn't go over well.
This week, another idea surfaced from the finance d
We made it! Self-proclaimed "Chicken-Shit with an Attitude" Gloria Squitiro included The Pitch in her 35 page manuscript that's sure to grab the attention of book publishers looking for an unstable megalomaniac (she's tentatively title the "book" It All Started When I was Born and C'mon Funk, Move Your Ass -- Gloria Squitiro and the New Politics because it's all about Glo-Squit). Thanks to the intrepid reporters of KSHB Channel 41, the whole diary/manuscript/whatever you call it came out M
The publishing event of the season in Kansas City has never seen official publication. We refer, of course, to It All Started When I Was Born, the fiery, ribald journal maintained by Funkhouser-keeper Gloria Squitiro from July of 2008 to January of 2009. While the 35-page diary has been debated and giggled over ever since it first turned up on KSHB's Web site last week, Squitiro's musings, apparently intended for a book, are not yet what any publisher might consider reader-friendly. In fact
$550,000 to Ruth Bates later, oversized Vulcan Mayor Mark Funkhouser vetoes the City Council's second attempt at a volunteer ordinance, the Council fails to override Funk's veto and his "Chicken-Shit with an Attitude" volunteer/wife is free to roam City Hall. Deb Hermann, Bill Skaggs, Russ Johnson and Beth Gottstein voted against overriding Funk's veto. Group hug!
