Subject: Economic Issues

• Sugar Creek Hates Grandmas

  October 2, 2007

• New Coal Plant Gets Gassed

  October 18, 2007

• Sugar Creek Mayor: Stupid or Dishonest?

  June 16, 2008

• Requiem for a Liquor Store

  June 30, 2008

• Breakfast Buffet: Thursday, 7/17

  July 17, 2008

• An Annotated Version of a Note from the Star's Publisher

  August 25, 2008

• KC Gets Smoked for Smoker Business

  August 27, 2008

• Daily Briefs: David Foster Wallace Has a Posse

  September 15, 2008

• Starbucks as an economic indicator

  October 27, 2008

• Breakfast Buffet: Wednesday, 12/31 New Year's Eve!

  The iconic Times Square Coca-Cola billboard featuring the iconic glass of Coca-Cola is going green. The equivalent of taking 75 cars off the road for a year. [New York Post] Tips on throwing the best recession party ever! Hint: Don't let your guests know it's a recession. [AP News]You'll never look at ice cubes the same way after seeing what this artist does with them. (No, it's not naughty though that set-up makes it sound slightly so.) [Wired]What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But what if n

  December 31, 2008

• Sebelius gives State of State address

  Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius just delivered her seventh State of the State address. I don't blame you if you watched 24 instead. Lots of "we" talk. It wasn't a thriller, but if you want to read the whole thing, it's after the jump.

  January 12, 2009

• Best Economic Development Corporation

  October 18, 2001

• Clara Cannucciari: 93 and cooking

  I'm a little late on this one. I found Clara on Just Me and since it's right down Fat City's aisle I couldn't pass on the 93-year-old's sage advice and Great Depression recipes.Clara Cannucciari was a sprightly 91 years old when she started making videos with her great-grandson, Christopher Cannucciari, who posted them on YouTube. Each video follows the same format: Clara makes a depression-era dish like pasta and peas or egg-drop soup, and talks about what it was like living through the Great D

  January 23, 2009

• Best Bureaucrat

  October 17, 2002

• Bacon Explosion highlights slow news day at Star

  New York Times slideshowWe knew the New York Times' Bacon Explosion story was big -- that's why we blogged about it yesterday on Fat City.But two days after the Times' story, The Kansas City Star still thinks it's really, really, really big. In today's Star, the Bacon Explosion is an above-the-fold, A-1 story! Hey, I love bacon more than I love my arteries, but I still can't quite believe the sudden popularity of a couple of Kansas City barbecue bloggers is, I don't know, bigger news than the Ho

  January 29, 2009

• Diddy Says Hip-Hop Is In a Recession. Doy Hickey.

  Sean "Greenspan" Combs said in an interview with MTV this week that hip-hop is in a recession. No "fucking" shit. The master of the remix -- and the obvious -- blames DJs for the industry's current nosedive. "People have figured out the formula when they make records for the radio, and DJs ain't DJs no more," Diddy told the interviewer. "They don't expose you to the newness." Hmm. The producer who brought you the caricature known as Mase laments the current lack of musical originality? Diddy c

  February 5, 2009

• Post we love: "Growing up in a 'socialist' town in Kansas"

  Just read a beautiful piece of writing by Resistance is Fruitful, a new local blogger who is impressing us with his thoughtful (if not yet especially prolific) work.This February 6 post was an "Editor's Pick" on OpenSalon.com. In it, Resistance remembers his childhood in Colby, Kansas -- specifically, the parts of town built by the WPA during the Great Depression. His experience is a strong rebuke to the cranks who argue that a federal economic stimulus package is "socialist" and therefore bad.

  February 11, 2009

• Guess what? Kansas City has a housing department again

  Kansas City once again has a housing department, thanks to an ordinance passed by the city council January 29th that went into effect last Sunday. Can't you just feel the difference? Me neither, but bringing housing in Kansas City back to the level of a department, even as a piece of a larger department, is an improvement from conditions I wrote about last month titled "Housing for Dummies: Six ways the city has wrecked a vital agency. Two projects that work anyway."At yesterday's Housing Commi

  February 12, 2009

• Best Political Landslide

  October 9, 2003

• Broke? Don't be depressed ... eat something!

  There's that inspiring lyric from a Stephen Sondheim song that goes, "In the Depression, was I depressed? Nowhere near..." Eating is always a mood-elevator (for me anyway, so pass the tuna noodle casserole this way). During the most grim days of the Great Depression, my great-grandmother (who had once run a boarding house), put terrific meals on her family's table because she was a great cook and knew how to stretch a buck. There are still cooks around, like the legendary Clara on YouTube,

  March 17, 2009

• Support the LAC

  April 9, 2009

• Arguing about the stimulus, pork-producing hometown Republicans have made a ridiculous stand for austerity

  February 26, 2009

• For Kansas City restaurants, it was a tumultuous year

  January 1, 2009

• Political View

  August 21, 2008

• In Kansas City, tax breaks don't cure blight — they create sprawl

  May 15, 2008

• Zoned Out

  The city council second-guesses residents.

  January 31, 2002

• Fear of Flying

  Feds blame the weather for flight delays and cancellations. Real authorities — air traffic controllers — have another, scarier explanation.

  October 18, 2007

• Global Twelve

  September 27, 2007

• Her Dirty Secret

  Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius preaches green, but her heart seems as black as coal.

  August 9, 2007

• Warren's World

  May 31, 2007

• Real Loft Living

  May 3, 2007

• Breakfast With Champions

  Kay Barnes makes a plea for her moneymen to support Alvin Brooks.

  March 8, 2007

• Kansas Goes Hollywood

  September 7, 2006

• The Grapes of Mirth

  Jonathan Nossiter's wine documentary is subversive, funny and humane.

  June 30, 2005

• Head Trip

  The TIF Commission says Gigi’s Wigs has to leave its downtown location because ... well, just because.

  May 5, 2005

• Milk and Money

  The east side's only grocery store is the site of a political skirmish.

  January 13, 2005

• Bad Company

  Lawrence learns a hard lesson about corporate promises.

  March 20, 2003

• He's the Man!

  Developer Ray Braswell looks for love and tax breaks on the most disputed block in Kansas City.

  March 6, 2003

• Gloryholes

  Sunday, March 16, at El Torreon.

  March 13, 2003

• Home Groan

  Angry neighborhood residents are tired of living with Kansas City's Housing Department director.

  December 5, 2002

• The Fall of Paul

  Paul Danaher should have been a contender for mayor.

  November 28, 2002

• Overland Office Park

  Even though Terra Venture botched one development, Overland Park lets it build another.

  November 30, 2000

• Zone This!

  Councilman Jim Rowland earns the mayor's wrath.

  November 9, 2000

• A Developing Problem

  The North Star Neighborhood Association wanted to work with city hall, but city hall was already working with someone else.

  September 14, 2000

• Déjà Vu All Over Again

  Overland Park may soon hear a giant sucking sound: Sprint going the way of Hoechst Marion Roussel.

  July 13, 2000

• Project Censored's Top 25 Stories for 1999

  May 11, 2000

• Your Free (Discussion of) Lunch

  You'll find countless deals around town as people clamor for cheap eats in today's economy, but where's the nourishment for your soul? Get some free food for thought this Sunday, July 19, at the Central branch of the Kansas City Public Library (14 W. 10th Street) when Pitch restaurant critic Charles Ferruzza leads a discussion on "Dining in Kansas City: From the Depression to the Recession." His talk covers the development of Kansas City's restaurant scene during the Great Depression in the 193

  July 17, 2009

• No soup for you recession

   The conventional wisdom is that when times are tough, people turn to canned goods and generic brands in an effort to save money. But our recession diets appear to be changing according to Time magazine's "10 Big Recession Surprises." Soup feels like an indicator of hard times -- whether that's a brain ripple from classic photographs of Depression soup lines or the fact that the offerings never seem to change. And yet Campbell's Soup isn't experiencing the normal uptick in sales in connecti

  July 24, 2009

• City Come a-Walkin'

  August 27, 2009

• Kansas City’s urban parks: Where leadership fails

  September 10, 2009