This week: Get cinematically inspired to stop buying tap water in pointless and polluting plastic bottles, help the cash-strapped city deal with its bank-breaking storm water problem by learning to contain with your own dirty run-off and strike fear into the hearts of politicians who hate to see a crowd of protesters on their lawn by enrolling in a free class on how to become an effective rabble-rouser.
Southmoreland.orgKansas City, Missouri's tax-increment financing (TIF) program gets criticized for enriching developers. TIF's defenders point to projects like the "Glover plan," which, in addition to delivering a Costco and a Home Depot, provided money for midtown homeowners to fix up their property.Housing programs have become a popular add-on to various TIF plans. The TIF plan featured in this week's Martin column has made grants to residents in the Southmoreland neighborhood.Eighty-nine h
