Subject: National Economy

• FYI=WTF?

  January 16, 2008

• Hey Greenies! Move to another continent!

  June 10, 2008

• Claire vs. Carly

  July 14, 2008

• Breakfast Buffet: Thursday, 7/17

  July 17, 2008

• KC Gets Smoked for Smoker Business

  August 27, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Sexy Grandpa remembers the Great Depression

  September 23, 2008

• Daily Briefs: What rough beast has two thumbs and slouches toward Bethlehem?

  September 30, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Fancy prizes, terror, and more walking-softly racism than you can shake a big stick at.

  October 13, 2008

• Last weekend's protest: "End the Fed!" Rally

  By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKIIn these days of bankruptcy, foreclosure and general economic calamity, plenty of citizens are pissed off at how the government has handled their hard-earned dollars. Dozens of liberty-loving metro residents crowded a corner near Penn Valley Park on Saturday to express their disdain for our paper-based monetary system. Members of the local chapter of the Liberty Restoration Project and folks who just caught wind of the protest on the Internet joined forces with demonstrato

  November 23, 2008

• Secret Santas and the Nelson-Atkins on NBC Nightly News

  Finally! A couple of KC-related stories that don't involve the words "Funkhouser" or "Squitiro" made national news. On Saturday, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams aired this story (above) about how the economic downturn affects the arts. The Nelson, which cut back its hours, is mentioned around the 1:08 mark. Immediately following the arts story was this short one about our Secret Santas, with some touching pictures. Which just goes to show that all that Funk-and-Gloria lawsuit/settlement m

  December 8, 2008

• Best Economic Development Corporation

  October 18, 2001

• Math Whizzes

  August 22, 2002

• Best Bureaucrat

  October 17, 2002

• MoDOT stimulus funds = FAIL

  The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (otherwise known as "the bailout," "the stimulus plan" or "Porkulus," depending on whom you ask) is very clear in its requirements regarding the funding of road and bridge projects. The Missouri Department of Transportation will receive $577 million of this stimulus cashola to distribute to projects, if: (1) the projects can get under way in 90 days or less, (2) they will take no more than three years to complete, (3) they create jobs and (4) they are

  March 19, 2009

• Daily Briefs: Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail, a shanty town

  What's the favorite breakfast cereal of Czechs? The other day -- oh, sorry, I'll be more specific, as this is "journalism" -- ON WEDNESDAY, the head of the European Economic Union, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek of the Czech Republic, known to coprolite-pooping old Sen. John McCain as "Czechoslovakia," slammed Pres. Barack Obama's plan to spend $2 trillion in stimulus for the U.S. economy, calling it "the road to hell." Pretty strong words by the austere old-world standards of European politi

  March 26, 2009

• Hoodie-wearing man terrorizes Kansas City by reading in the park

  If you see a guy wearing a hoodie and reading in the park, you might want to call 911. The hoodie-wearing man might just be a terrorist, if you believe the "Seven Signs of Terrorism," a creepy six-minute video that gives the clues to a potential terrorist attack right here in Kansas City. If you go to PrepareMetroKC.org, you can see that the video was paid for by the Department of Homeland Security. I saw the video on TKC yesterday, and with its creepy woman host, music from The Exorcist and hoo

  April 14, 2009

• What was the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City doing as the housing market went insane?

  February 19, 2009

• Be My Valentine

  February 5, 2009

• Mexican Fare

  June 19, 2008

• Traders or Traitors?

  March 27, 2008

• Hospital Helper

  In his crusade against a TIF plan, a former councilman looks like a shill for a condo-building scoundrel.

  October 18, 2007

• Warren's World

  May 31, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Your spendjamins and you

  HEY HEY, HO HO, PROGRESSIVE TAX RATES REPRESENTING AN EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION EFFECT HAVE GOT TO GO! Look. I know that in an ideal realm consisting of nothing but perfect expressions of Pi, Roman statuary and isosceles triangles, there are no taxes. I wish I lived there. But I wanted to address the following circumstance: There's been a lot of toilet talk recently at the expense of decent, hardworking, tri-cornered-hat-wearing Americans about "tea-bagging." I don't want to seem like a snotty 13

  April 16, 2009

• You've been served, Ben Bernanke

  Ron Paul supporters, goldbugs and people wearing JFK T-shirts amassed on the lawn between Liberty Memorial and Union Station to protest the Federal Reserve Bank on Saturday.End the Fed rallies took place in Kansas City and other cities where the Fed operates banks. The Kansas City protesters brought signs blasting various aspects of the U.S. financial system, including the government's $54 trillion deficit.Working without the benefit of the media apparatus that promoted the tea-bag parties, the

  April 27, 2009

• Hispanic eco devo group expands its services to Johnson County

  A couple of weeks ago, I went to a presentation from Rob Paral, a researcher who suggests Mexican immigrants are coming to the Midwest is such large numbers that shunning or criminalizing workers from the other side of the southern border is both unrealistic and self-defeating. In his definition of "Midwest," Paral didn't include Kansas. But Johnson County is very much part of this picture. Bernardo Ramirez, executive director of Kansas City's Hispanic Economic Development Corporation,

  June 30, 2009

• THE BIGGEST BANG FOR NO BUCKS

  July 2, 2009

• City Come a-Walkin'

  August 27, 2009