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January 19, 2008In Case You Missed It
February 1, 2008Kris Kobach Tagged As a "New-Wave Nativist"
March 10, 2008Get Your Kick-Ass Eco T-Shirts Here
June 12, 2008Angry Parents Issue Their Own Report Cards
August 27, 2008Last Night's Protest: Coat hanger demon lurks at anti-Palin rally
October 3, 2008City officials rip now-jeopardized Citadel Plaza
Two months ago, the members of the Kansas City Finance and Audit committee unanimously and enthusiastically approved a plan to issue bonds for the long-awaited Citadel Plaza shopping center at 63rd Street and Prospect Avenue. Today, those same members angrily denied the developer's request for $20 million from city coffers and admonished everyone involved for incompetence. Now, a project 15 years in the making that's made a mess of a busy intersection is fa
December 3, 2008Gay softballers donate their namesake to kids in need
After just two years in the Heart of America Softball League, The Barbies went all the way to the Gay World Series this past summer. After raising $10,000 from fans and sponsors, the Barbies traveled to Seattle and went 5-2 at the national competition. It wasn't enough to make it to the winners' podium, but these players did bring home a trophy. Their Barbie inspired outfits -- in pastel blues and pink -- earned them the Best Uniforms award. Thanks to the generosity of their supporters they g
December 5, 2008Cyclocross Nationals: Snot, Sweat and Tears
The sound of screaming fans, jingling cowbells and the whine of Axl Rose belting "Welcome to the Jungle" rang out at Tiffany Springs Park yesterday as the Cyclocross National Championships kicked off four days of muddy mayhem. "He's riding that bike like he just stole it from the front of a 7-Eleven!" shouted one of the announcers as a grime-spattered cyclist shot past a patio of picnic tables where racers and spectators were enjoying beer and barbecue in the barely 40-degree weather
December 12, 2008IHOPers converge to discuss the end of the world
To city officials, the sight of packet-clutching, name-tag-wearing visitors shuffling between downtown hotels and Bartle Hall evokes the sweet sound of cash registers ringing. But to Kansas City residents, the flocks of out-of-towners often raises the question: "Who are you people?" Despite the plastic sunglasses and hipster fashions, this week's crowd wasn't in town for an American Apparel conference but OneThing08, hosted by the International House of Prayer. While countless Christians likely
December 31, 2008One less recycling center in 2009
The drop-off center at 80th and MetcalfThanks to the tanking economy, the growing stream of recycled materials snapped up by hungry manufacturers in early 2008 has turned into a mountain of worthless trash entering 2009. Waste haulers, like Deffenbaugh Industries, have seen the market for recovered materials plunge to unprecedented lows. So it's no surprise that, in the New
December 31, 2008KC FreeThinkers shed their clothes to "Keep Winter Cold"
The KC Free Thinkers -- a group of atheists, agnostics and humanists -- gained some notoriety when they erected a provocative billboard in Overland Park last October. Saturday, they're employing a different attention-grabbing tactic: taking off their clothes. But this frigid baptism has got nothing to do with God.
January 9, 2009Olathe couple to produce glitzy Latino inaugural event
When Latino pop stars or big-money actors get a phone call from Olathe, Kansas, they don't disregard the fly-over-country area code. David Chavez and Sarah Ruiz were born and raised in Topeka, but they've built a Midwest company that runs with the Los Angeles and New York City elite in booking top talent. This weekend, with a little help from Jennifer Lopez, they'll be in charge of welcoming a new president to Washington, D.C.
January 16, 2009Mental health program will continue at new regional jail
City Councilwoman Cathy Jolly just announced that the new regional jail will get to keep the Bridge Program. The city secured $900,000 in funding for the project, which provide diagnosis, counseling, and case management to inmates who'll be moved from the Municipal Correctional Institution to the regional jail later this summer. That's really good news because the Bridge Program employs a lot of mental health professionals. In March, Carolyn Szczepanski's feature story on MCI detailed that
June 3, 2009Daily Briefs: Does the red carpet match the velvet curtains?
Because, who cares? The Pitch's Carolyn Szczepanski writes a great blog feature called "The Give a Shit List." This was kind of adapted and evolved from my original idea, the "I Could Give A Shit List," demonstrating the power of one or two words to completely change the semantics of a phrase. My list included things like internet "bacon" jokes and the Academy Awards. One time, I enjoyed a sit-down pee inside a pink-colored porta-john at the Lillith Fair. But even that doesn't make me girly en
February 23, 2009Cob Smacked
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March 19, 2009Tweaking the dream
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December 11, 2008Dirty Old Town
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November 6, 2008Letters From the Week of September 25
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June 12, 2008Bike and Brains Needed
May 8, 2008Letters for the week of May 1
May 1, 2008Letters for the week of April 24
April 24, 2008Tax Guardians
Readers come out strong against the Citadel project.
January 17, 2008Road Rage
The war of words between bike riders and car drivers continues.
November 29, 2007Letters from the week of November 22
Bike riders — and the KC drivers who wish they'd get off the roads — make some noise.
November 22, 2007Ghost Patriots
August 2, 2007More support for a single-payer health-care system; distress over pukey PBS documentary
Joshua Freeman, MDAmong those who responded to last week's story on Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' health-care reform efforts was Joshua Freeman, MD, a professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine for the University of Kansas School of Medicine.We knew and admired Dr. Freeman for his work with the dedicated med students who run the JayDoc Free Clinic at Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care (Pitch staff writer Carolyn Szczepanski wrote about the JayDocs back in September 2006). Now
April 14, 2009Parkinson backs coal-fired power plant
That didn't take long. Not even a week after the U.S. Senate confirmed Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of Health and Human Services, and Mark Parkinsonnewly minted Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson has agreed to a deal that will allow Sunflower Electric to build a new coal-fired power plant in Holcomb. I checked in with The Pitch's Carolyn Szczepanski, who pays way more attention to power plants and coal than I do. She had a couple of quick, admittedly knee-jerk reactions:1) [Parkinson] was talking last
May 5, 2009Dead pigs, garbage in the river, mercenary hauling — it’s a wonder we’re still here
April 30, 2009Parkinson wasn't the only one who caved in to coal
Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson wasn't alone in in his big cave-in to coal last week. After all, Kansas lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to approve the new governor's hastily announced deal with Sunflower Electric Power Corporation to build just one instead of two new coal-fired power plants in western Kansas, thus ending two years of legislative scrapping.David WysongThe Kansas House signed off on the deal 103-18; the Senate vote was 37-2.One of those two senators was Mission Hills Republican David Wy
May 14, 2009Breakfast Buffet: Friday, 5/22
You can have a night (and a very full one at that) downtown on $20. Catch a movie, drink some beers and laugh your butt off. [KC Beer Blog]Massachusetts is close to passing a law requiring calories on chain's menus just like New York City. Only this time without all the opposition. [WSJ] When you head out for food there is no need to go to a market, store or restaurant. Foraging in the local forest is often just as good. [Forbes]Everything we buy is because of (drum-role please) sex! That is acc
May 22, 2009Nope, no evidence of murder-crazed psychos here
If you're interested in some bold political debate on the pros and cons of using massive government intelligence programs to run surveillance on people whose political candidates will Just because Bob Barr wants you to live in fear doesn't make him a terroristnever get more than 2 percent of the vote, you might want to pop over to the KY3's political notebook, specifically here and here. They've got some fantastic video and coverage of Wednesday's hearings on the Missouri Infor
June 11, 2009They love us! They really love us!
Plog's two sisters took the home the Gold and Silver awards in the Blog category at the Kansas City Press Club's Heart of America Awards banquet on Saturday night. Journalists in the Los Angeles Press Club, who judged our local contest, deemed Jason Harper's Wayward Blog the best in Kansas City, followed by Charles Ferruzza and Owen Morris' Fat City.Judges called Harper's blog "a funny, profane chronicle of the local music scene with an engaged and opinionated audience." They said Fat City was "
June 15, 2009The cash-sucking Citadel Plaza won’t go away, and neither will expensive and stupid feasibility studies.
June 25, 2009Letters from the week
of June 18June 18, 2009Have you seen me? The MJ memorial edition
Virtual moonwalk to whoever can name the location of this awesome, stopped-me-in-my-tracks-from-the-other-side-of-the-street Michael Jackson memorial.Carolyn Szczepanski
June 29, 2009Cafe Seed isn't gone, it re-opens Sunday
The all-vegan bistro at 2932 Cherry known as Cafe Seed -- reviewed in The Pitch in April -- had many fans and supporters, but also generated a lot of complaints. Not about the food, which was consistently tasty, but the infuriatingly languid pace of the kitchen (it could take a very long time to get food) and the erratic hours that owner Ericka Mingo was actually open for business. "I was one of those customers who complained about the slowness of the kitchen and the times the rest
August 20, 2009For those who comment, we salute you ...
This week made me want to reach for the jar of crazy lady pills, mostly due to the hyperbolic rhetoric of the drug-'em-don't-kill-'em protesters at the Johnson County parks board meeting this week (Carolyn Szczepanski's "Last night's protest: Deer defenders at JoCo parks meeting"). Take this comment from "warwak." Look what corpse-munchers do to loving cows, chickens, pigs, and other partners on this planet we all have the privilege of sharing. Corpse-munchers do not know how to conduct them
August 21, 2009Letters from the week
of September 17September 17, 2009Deer defenders cause traffic jam -- but no arrests -- at Shawnee Mission Park
On Saturday afternoon, when law enforcement officers informed Jason Miller that he couldn't use an amplification device on the grounds of Shawnee Mission Park, the animal rights activist politely crossed the street with his megaphone, continuing to protest in a legal manner. Carolyn SzczepanskiJason Miller (with megaphone) tried to close Shawnee Mission ParkBut between his calls to save the deer from the impending harvest in the 1,200-acre Johnson County green space, Miller confided that Sund
October 5, 2009Letters from the week
of October 29October 29, 2009This week's Pitch and 13 things we learned this week
There's a new push for glass-recycling in Kansas City thanks to Ripple Glass. Carolyn Szczepanski writes all about the new venture in this week's feature story, "The Ripple Effect." The goal is pretty lofty: Triple Kansas City's glass-recycling efforts in the next two years. Let's hope they do it. Also in this week's Pitch, Martin tries to make sense of Blue Summit's dysfunctional Inter City Fire Protection District.Ferruzza pulls double diner duty with reviews of Rob's Cafe and Roxanne's Caf
November 13, 2009
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