Tag: Kansas City
Star Takes Big-Spending KC-Based Boilermakers Union to Woodshed
To give credit where it’s due, the Kansas City Star has revisited the account books of the Kansas City, Kansas-based…
Man With AK-47 Carjacks Grandma in Northeast KC
A thug bearing an AK-47 ambushed a Kansas City grandmother and her friend when they honored a stop sign at…
WW I Centennial on Thursday: Plan Around It
If you don’t have tickets already for the centennial commemoration of America’s entry into World War I on Thursday, you…
KC to Host White Privilege Conference
Kansas City, Missouri, will play host to a conference designed to organize, strategize and take action to deconstruct the culture…
Sessions: Missouri Murder Spike Not a “Blip,” Cites Heroin, Opioids
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session spoke Friday in St. Louis to state and community leaders and members of law enforcement.…
Johnson, Platte Top Healthy County List, Wyandotte Next-to-Last
According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s annual county health rankings, Johnson County clocks in as the healthiest in Kansas, and…
New Subsidized KC Grocery to Replace Old Subsidized Grocery
With much fanfare, the City of Kansas City, Missouri, has started demolition on an old grocery story on Linwood and…
FBI Analyst Slams Star Coverage of UMKC Rape
Frustrated by the failure of the local media to cover the rape of an unconscious co-ed in her UMKC dorm…
Family of Slain Vietnam Vet Ups Reward for Info
On February 27, Vietnam veteran David Lenox took his dog Snickers for a walk outside the Willow Creek Apartments…
The Northland News Publisher Andrew Palmer Answers The Sentinel’s 20 Question
A 2007 graduate of UMKC and a former school teacher, Andrew Palmer has shown that you do not need to…
Star Headline on Trump Budget Proposal Flirts with Parody
The joke goes that if an asteroid were hurtling towards earth, the New York Times would headline its account of…
Part II: Chris Stigall Answers the Sentinel’s 20 Questions
In Part II of this interview, former KCMO talk radio host Chris Stigall shares his regrets and ambitions. Who was…
Radio Legend Chris Stigall Answers the Sentinel’s 20 Questions: Part I
KCMO morning radio host Chris Stigall broke a lot of hearts when he left Kansas City for Philadelphia in 2010.…
Is City Using Trump to Sell KCI Single Terminal, Go Bonds?
A friend of the Sentinel received a call today from a sophisticated push pollster hoping to measure the respondent’s thoughts…
Anyone Want to Buy This Building? It’s For Sale!
According to Loopnet and with a hat tip to Tony, there is some significant commercial property for sale Downtown, specifically “a portfolio…
OP Rep Chides Peers For “Anti-University, Anti-Intellectualism” in Campus Carry Debate
Rep. Stephanie Clayton, an Overland Park Republican, does not like the idea of “campus carry” and does not exactly respect…
Solyndra East? KC Solar Company in Near Total Eclipse
The future looked spectacularly sunny less than two years ago when California-based solar energy company Sungevity opened its Downtown Kansas…
Show-Me: City Math Fuzzy on Go Bonds Costs
Patrick Touhey, Western Missouri field manager for the libertarian think tank the Show-Me Institute, has a real problem with the…
Must Watch: Shocking KC Drive-By Shooting Video Makes National News
ABC News was among the national and international networks that showed an extraordinary dash cam video of a rolling drive-by…
Illegal Alien Accused of Rape in UMKC Dorm
According to Fox4 KC, the federal immigration department has placed a hold on 22-year-old Juan Contreras for raping an incapacitated woman in UMKC’s…
KC Firefighter Earns 232K in 2016, 100 Make More Than 107K
According to the Kansas City Star, a Kansas City, Missouri, firefighter/paramedic made $232,105 last year, $80,000 more than the fire chief Fire…
$15 Minimum Wage Goes on KC August Ballot, Kansans Hoping It Passes
If local social justice warriors have their way, minimum wage workers in Kansas City, Missouri, could see their salaries nearly…
Tony Botello of “Tony’s Kansas City” Answers the Sentinel’s 20 Questions
What the major media most resent about the alternative media is the latter’s freedom to pursue the truth. By…
Show-Me Warns of $800 Million GO Bonds Blank Check
Patrick Touhey, the Western Missouri field manager of the libertarian Show-Me Institute, has his eye on the $800 million the City of…