Subject: Public Improvements Advisory Committee

• Want the fun of a public meeting without having to be there? Twitter is the only way to fly.

  March 12, 2009

• Lifestyles of the Rich and Subsidized

  Kansas City has an expensive habit of paying for every developer’s champagne wishes and caviar dreams.

  May 26, 2005

• The Dumb Defense

  Saundra McFadden-Weaver has a simple strategy to survive controversy. She claims ignorance. Can Saundra McFadden-Weaver beat the feds by claiming — again — that she's been duped?

  January 25, 2007

• The Grudge Report

  Saundra McFadden-Weaver says the recall effort is about old political wounds.

  January 6, 2005

• Law of Demand

  The Law Building survives a money grab.

  August 14, 2003

• Chagall In The Family

  This Road leads somewhere even more intriguing than Paris.

  July 24, 2003

• Smell of Success

  Sometimes it takes an act of God before City Hall gets its priorities right.

  March 6, 2003

• The Fall of Paul

  Paul Danaher should have been a contender for mayor.

  November 28, 2002

• The Eternal Question No. 1

  Neighborhood leaders to City Hall: Can you hear me now?

  October 24, 2002

• Money Changes Everything

  Along comes a measly $35 million, and city leaders forget how to behave.

  July 25, 2002

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

  June 25, 2009