A New Hotel For Downtown Kansas City?
One option in this proposal is a 35-story hotel. Several sites are proposed, including an option to build it over the freeway, which is stupid for reasons I’ll explain shortly.
New media site for Kansas City
Kansas City now has a new, serious alternative to the Kansas City Star and The Pitch.
Animal Control Officers Seizing Pets
The City of Kansas City, Missouri has a knack for doing stupid things to inconvenience people. Now word comes from the Kansas City Dog Advocates that KCMO is implementing new policies that will reward animal control officers for meeting quotas. This is an attack on pet owners and will lead to the deaths of many pets. On a more positive [...]
Light rail post-mortem
The latest chapter in Kansas City’s controversy over light rail closed last week, as the latest light rail proposal failed at the polls. Kansas City, Missouri voters had approved a light rail referendum a couple of years ago, but then Kansas City got some enlightened, liberal regime change which proceeded to fuck up that plan. The movers and shakers didn’t [...]
Another Mott-ly Tribute
Gina Kaufmann has put together a tribute and remembrance of Mott-ly over at The Pitch’s group blog. It includes some older photos of Mott-ly, including a pic of him as lead singer for his old band, Mudhead. In a few weeks I will be posting some pages from Mott-ly’s old zines. I had been planning to do this several months [...]
