Subject: Ed Ford

• Tax Foes Stay Silent as Election Nears

  April 4, 2008

• Bottled Water Program Gets Scrapped

  September 15, 2008

• Daily Briefs: The Power & Light District is worth every penny

  November 11, 2008

• Cathy Sukaromya and Lisa Minardi in front of the Brick

  By JEN CHEN I was at lunch with some co-workers at the Brick when I saw Cathy (left) and Lisa. Actually, “saw” is a little inaccurate – I only got a brief glimpse of them when they walked out the door. Something about their coats intrigued me, though, so I abandoned my hot toddy and ran outside to catch up with them.

  November 19, 2008

• Stealing Time: Jack Cashill waiting for apology from the Star

  Conspiracy theorist Author Jack Cashill is demanding a public apology from The Kansas City Star's Derek Donovan, who called Cashill a liar. I have my own demand, Jack. Apologize to Barack Obama and William Ayers for your crackpot Ayers-wrote-Obama's-book yarn. While you're apologizing, throw in one for the Crap Archivist for writing 2006: The Chautauqua Rising.

  December 4, 2008

• Stealing Time: I'll buy Chiefs tix, when Herm and King Carl get the ax

  There's a long waiting list for tickets for the Kansas City Chiefs' 2009 season. Except, the line starts as soon as Herm Edwards and Carl Peterson get the boot from One Arrowhead Drive. Beavis, a poster on the Chiefs Planet message board, shared his e-mail exchange with a Chiefs season ticket salesman. "I tell you what. Write my name down. As soon as Herm is fired and Carl resigns, I'll be the first in line to buy tickets," Beavis wrote.You won't be the first, the Chiefs sales guy wrote."I wil

  December 5, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Funkhouser; Econocalypse; Brownback

  Dumb-bunny civic embarrassment Mayor Mark Funkhouser's proposal to settle Ruth Bates' lawsuit against him was rejected by the City Council, 2-10. Funkhouser wants to settle because he can TOTALLY WIN THIS THING in court. He was asking for $135,000 to pay off the legal tab incurred by wife Gloria Squitiro's fat, stupid mouth, plus another $40,000 for his attorney. BUT! Councilman Ed Ford said that the council wouldn't approve a settlement unless Funkhouser dropped his crybaby lawsuit against the

  December 5, 2008

• Daily J. Briefs, Esq.

  For various reasons, I've become incredibly familiar with the principles of Pavlovian conditioning and their utility in training people, I mean dogs, to perform simple tasks. So the AMAZING REWARD at the end of today's Daily Briefs should not be construed as a "prize" for reading the whole thing, but rather as a conditioned reinforcer that will increase the likelihood of similar behavior in the future. Furthermore, telling you in advance that today's entry has an AMAZING REWARD at the end shoul

  December 15, 2008

• Power & Light fizzle

  April 20, 2000

• Best New Law

  October 17, 2002

• Best Network of Bike Paths

  October 17, 2002

• 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

• White T's, hairy armpits and delicious irony

  Photo by Peter RuggP&L cops cast out a white T wearerPoetic justice has emerged in the long, often tedious debate about the dress code at the Power & Light District in downtown Kansas City. Acting on complaints the ban on long white T's and chains discriminates against African-Americans, the City Council took a step this week to regulate how the Cordish Co. regulates its customers. Terry Riley's Planning and Zoning Committee passed an ordinance on Wednesday limiting the reach of dress co

  March 27, 2009

• All You Need Is Love

  January 1, 2009

• A college drop-out abandons a lucrative tech career for a life of inner-city poverty – and hopes to save an urban school district from oblivion

  February 21, 2008

• Haves, Have Nots

  Here's a little tale about two Kansas Cities.

  September 13, 2007

• Nickeled- and-Dimed

  That latté you're drinking includes a shot of taxation without representation.

  August 16, 2007

• The Last Dance

  No one wanted to take the blame for the lack of security that killed teen partygoer Kristi Carroll.

  April 1, 2004

• Troy Wonder

  City Councilman Troy Nash is too busy to worry about campaign spending questions.

  July 24, 2003

• That's the Breaks

  Far be it from the outgoing City Council to set a policy.

  April 10, 2003

• A Dollar Short

  City Hall's day-labor solution doesn't work.

  January 23, 2003

• Brew Hoo

  The city's new 3 a.m. liquor law isn't much to celebrate.

  January 2, 2003

• Barbarians Rule

  Barney Allis Plaza is immortalized in skateboarding videos.

  November 7, 2002

• Sprawl Brawl

  Chuck Weber tries to keep the hated Lowry Meadows from going out to pasture.

  November 14, 2002

• Blight Crawlers

  Bannister Mall developers feed on the bottom.

  February 14, 2002

• Kay O'Connors Secret Diaries

  The senator's never-before-published musings reveal that it's been a long, difficult year for all of us.

  December 27, 2001

• They're Gunning for Him Now

  Tony Ragusa's weapons don't work against city hall.

  March 8, 2001

• They Vote Green

  Citizens may try to influence elected officials with votes, but they're upagainst another kind of influence.

  September 14, 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

• Out of FOCUS

  When it comes to city council approval of the Northland Pine Grove development, the FOCUS plan wasn't much of a factor.

  June 29, 2000

• KC Council says yes to spending $500K on convention hotel study

  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

  June 19, 2009

• The cash-sucking Citadel Plaza won’t go away, and neither will expensive and stupid feasibility studies.

  June 25, 2009

• Diary of a Madwoman: Gloria Squitiro's tell-all diary indexed

  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

  July 21, 2009

• Mammygate over? Only in our dreams

  Best TV coverage of yesterday's settlement in Ruth Bates' discrimination lawsuit against Mayor Mark Funkhouser and the City of Kansas City goes to KSHB Channel 41, where reporter Chris Hernandez got an exclusive sit-down with Bates. Watching what ran on TV last night I couldn't tell if that was a nervous smile on Bates' face or whether she could barely contain her glee over the $550,000 settlement. But the full 9-minute version of Hernandez' interview on the station's Web site is more revealing.

  July 24, 2009

• City officials scout potential sites for financial black hole

  A new convention hotel could incorporate the Power & Light Building​Mayor Mark Funkhouser is skeptical that Kansas City can afford to subsidize a 1,000-room conventional hotel. But that didn't stop a group of city officials from sizing up prospective sites for such a behemoth. On Wednesday, Councilman Ed Ford and HNTB architect Todd Achelpohl led a tour of the blocks surrounding Bartle Hall. Eight potential sites, including Barney Allis Plaza, have been identified as potential sites for th

  September 16, 2009

• Councilwoman Jan Marcason likes minority-hiring quizzes, so here’s one for her

  October 1, 2009