Best kicker in the KC Metro is at Lincoln College Prep! 37 yard field goal last night. #ForTheCity

The World Series is not on the radio in Kansas City??? What is MLB doing?

Umberto Boccioni, The City Rises, 1910 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135557

My favorite kicker set a personal best with a 43 yard kick last night. #RepThePrep #ForTheCity

Mens et manus, indeed. Relieved that my alma mater still thinks for itself. thetech.com/2025/10/10/m...

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Rainy Tuesday Night Lights

Hearing my from congressman, Rep Cleaver this morning about housing and opportunities for more housing development in our communities.

I'm in DC today to talk to our MO congressional delegation about housing & the importance of supporting the ROAD to Housing Act. #AmericanPlanningAssociation

I'm in DC today to talk to our MO congressional delegation about housing & the importance of supporting the ROAD to Housing Act. #AmericanPlanningAssociation

The right ignored the murder of the Minnesota House Speaker by a guy who had a hit list of Democrats he was targeting to flip control of the chamber to Republicans. Asked about that assassination today, the president said he didn't know who she was and a Fox host said he didn't care she was killed.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

An eighth grade girl told me my outfit was tea and that might have been my greatest accomplishment today.

My favorite kicker completed a pass for a first down conversion on a fake punt, made his field goal and PAT, AND has better politics, too. #RepThePrep

Friday night lights! And my baby's first field goal of the year. #RepThePrep

First football game of senior year & our guy hits the game winning extra point! #RepThePrep

Boon agrees that this is great porch weather.

Proud to see KC Public Schools at the top of these types of rankings, especially for the school my son will graduate from this year. Go Blue Tigers! #RepThePrep

Our fantastic local Romance Bookstore, Under the Cover, is sponsoring a raffle in support of a local librarian. 😭❤️ linktr.ee/PulmonaryPlo...

Just got our kids' bus info for the new school year. The high school starts at 7:20am. Our kid is assigned a bus route that picks him up at 5:35am. He is supposed to be at the bus stop at 5:25am. Driving to the school takes 15 minutes.

Happy National Book Lovers Day! 📚💗   The Library has thousands of stories for you to check out! What is your favorite title? 💭   #NationalBookLoversDay #KCLibrary #LibraryLover

Last night at the beach vibes.

Vacation vibes.

Vacation vibes

Part of the joy of vacation is finding different products in the grocery store. Mark would kind of like to bring the whole pig head home.

Vacation starts when we reach Pepe's in Harlingen. Botana platter FTW!

Random finds on the crime-ridden streets of Waldo.

He spends his days praying with Muslim families whose children are dying. That's our deportation priority?

When you return to your desk after a meeting and discover a coworker left you a piece of berry rhubarb pie... what a great Wednesday!

Alternatives to NY Times Games & Puzzles 🧵 If it bothers you that your passive games subscription and clicks to the NYT Games cartel is funding their awful OpEd army and "journalism," there are a wealth of puzzle/game options less iffy/yikes complicit, and many are direct clones to your NYT faves.

Finished book #36 last night, ahead of pace to read my age in books this year! (And it keeps me from doomscrolling.) Book #36 was After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman. First of hers that I've read & I really enjoyed it.

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

Trump has been in office for five months and we have masked men disappearing people in the streets, our social safety net has been dismantled, the federal government is anti-vax, and we’re bombing Iran. Tell me some more about how there was no difference between the two parties.

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

Just overheard the 6yo neighbor who is jumping in puddles say "today is the best day EVER!"

The Elmdale KS City Hall. Just a touch smaller than City Hall in KC.

Your American Planning Association board workshopped scenarios during this week's meetings to better understand how uncertainties surrounding federal policies may affect urban planning, communities, and our association with the goal to better assist our members in navigating the future.

Sweet home Chicago!

Just finished my 30th book of the year - on pace to exceed my goal! Book #30 was The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman. It felt like a King Arthur tale for the 21st century.

In light of today's weird AI book list debacle in Chicago, here’s a list of real, currently relevant books you can check out this summer from area bookstores and libraries, with local and regional connections. www.thepitchkc.com/generative-a...

Do you ever think about the great things America could do if we focused our energy on common good rather than corporate greed?

Today I learned that the Platte County school district extends into Clay County. 🤯 Boundaries are weird.

When planners take tours, we look at new buildings *and* at things that are no longer there, like this street vacation. Had a great day with KC's Development Management Division, seeing quite a lot of our 319 square miles.

IYKYK

Road trip!

Hey @theathletic.bsky.social - no copy editors tonight?

Kansas City view

An attack on women’s access to paid work.

Kansas City view.