Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy: As a novel alternative to just cold vetoin' the new city budget, Mayor Mark Funkhouser will let it become law without his signature, a level of political subtlety we haven't experienced, ever, from the Funkhouser administration. So I'm attributing that whole thing to professional political consultant Mark Seittman, as opposed to Funkhouser's previous advisor, Gloria Squitiro, whom we provincial Kansas City hayseeds were unprepared to accept as half of an active
