November 18, 2024

Keeping Media and Government Accountable.

Tag: Kansas City

Opposition Mounts to One-Sided Nov. 7 KCI Single Terminal Ballot

The single terminal boosters on the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council have gotten their way. Last week the Council passed…

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Missouri Travel Advisory: KC Passes 100 Homicide Mark, Rate 10X Greater Than NYC

A month ago, to much fanfare, the NAACP issued a travel advisory for Missouri. The threat, NAACP members were told…

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Below Normal Temp Streak Ends at 26 Days, Outlook Dicey for Eclipse

In what may well be the most underreported weather story of recent years, Kansas City enjoyed a streak of 26…

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New Poll Shows Support for Single Terminal, But One Question Is Missing

After months of relentless propaganda from all corners in support of a new single terminal at KCI, the engineering firm…

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Clay Chastain Slams “Sick Relationship” Between Star and City Hall

Although the Sentinel did not endorse Clay Chastain’s tax proposal on the August Kansas City ballot–it has openly criticized the…

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19 Straight Days of Below Normal Temps in KC, At Least 14 More Projected

The below normal streak began on July 26 when Kansas City recorded a high temperature of 84 degrees, 6 degrees…

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KC Voters Stun Streetcar Boosters, Reject Streetcar Expansion

Without even a formal campaign to check the City of Kansas City’s relentless effort to extend its dubious streetcar system…

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KC Streetcar Boosters “Win” Round I, Round 2 Tuesday

Even the most diabolical Russian would have been hard pressed to out-rig the Kansas City streetcar boosters who arranged a…

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Global Warming Alert: Brace for Record Low on Friday, Gore Unworried

The Fox4kc headline spells out the global warming conundrum ahead, “Challenging a record low!” The temperature Friday morning is expected…

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City Jilts Hotel Partner Without Telling Them

The Kansas City Business Journal headline from July 21, “Convention hotel raises a different flag,” conceals almost as much mayhem…

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KC Taxpayers Bail Out Misbegotten Jazz Festival

Although no one asked them whether they wanted to, Kansas City taxpayers shelled out at least $117,000 to bail out…

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“Chimpanzee Dead,” “Dog Dies”–Two Top Stories on Google News KC Page

As a sign perhaps that readers have wearied of reading about the violent deaths of their fellow humans the two…

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St. Louis Nation’s 4th Worst City, Springfield 12th, KCK 49th, Wichita, KCMO, Topeka Unranked

A 24/7 Wall Street survey has fourth-place St. Louis being barely edged out by the likes of Detroit and Flint,…

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Man Robs KCK Bank to Flee Wife, Sentenced to House Arrest

As the British newspaper The Independent reported, Lawrence John Ripple, 70, told his wife he would “rather be in jail than…

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Northland Man on Scalise Shooter: “He Couldn’t Handle Trump”

A Northland man who grew up with James Hodgkinson, the shooter of Rep. Steve Scalise and four others, told Fox4kc that…

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First World News: KC Woman Without Hot Water for Two Weeks

Last week a Kansas City woman found a cricket in her Chinese take-out, and this week a woman has had…

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Bandage Rather Than Cure? Citizens Propose Trail Curfew

Kansas City, Mo., officials are brainstorming ways to increase safety on public trails following a series of murders along Indian…

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Breaking: Fifth South KC Walking Trail Homicide Victim Also White

Credit goes to the Hays Post for answering the obvious question that Kansas City media were reluctant to ask: what…

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Update: Police Identify the Fifth South KC Hiking Trail Victim

Kansas City police have identified the fifth man found on or near a South Kansas City hiking trail as 31-year-old…

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House Dems Help Nix New Kansas Tax

By a 68-53 vote the Kansas House rejected a plan to increase taxes, and the Democrats made it all possible. …

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Homicide Cop: Steer Clear of Indian Creek “Until Police Have Made an Arrest”

The murder of four middle-aged white men along Kansas City’s Indian Creek Trail System has gotten the attention of the…

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City Resists Homicide Trend, Second South KC Dog Walker Murdered

Police are investigating the death of popular sports bar owner Mike Darby as a homicide. Darby had been walking his dogs…

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Somali Immigrant Suspected of “Jihadist Activities” Charged in KC

Last week federal prosecutors in Kansas City charged Isse Aweis Mohamud, suspected of jihadist activities by his own family, with passport…

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The Group That Calls Itself ‘Citizens For Responsible Government’ Challenges Downtown Hotel

On Friday, the Sentinel exposed how the Kansas City Star prefaces all articles about the watchdog group, Citizens for Responsible…

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