They are boiling the frog slowly hoping we don't notice the ruining the beautiful game by turning it into American Football

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

You can actually hear the producers cranking up the audience volume to try to make the response to Trump's "Peace Prize" sound less tepid.

To kick off this celebration of football and its role in bringing us all together in our shared humanity, we welcome Donald Trump. And then we'll give him a peace prize, "on behalf of billions of football fans around the world." This is such a farce. And they can't even sort out their tech.

"Never chase reality" is the perfect US Mens' National Team tagline for the Trump era.

Important perspective. Left NIMBYs are also particularly culpable in this.

This is how we should accommodate transit when we want to close streets, instead of forcing reroutes like we do for events at T-Mobile Center in KC. Let the professional drivers pass through slowly and safely and give transit an advantage in times of congestion, not further delay.

My most-used words in 2025 were: 1. "city" (63×) 2. "downtown" (35×) 3. "building" (30×) 4. "without" (26×) 5. "parking" (23×) See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

Consider the absurdity of expressing the number of residential units as a max and the number of parking spots as a minimum in an age of spiraling housing inaccessibility, climate change, and the crippling cost of car dependence.

While we're at it, let's rank the KC metro suburban downtowns worth mentioning. 1. Lee's Summit 2. OP 3. Parkville 4. Liberty 5. NKC 6. Independence 7. Mission 8. Shawnee 9. Olathe

Fun game inspired by chat with @zavcurrent.bsky.social and @stbikeskc.bsky.social : rank order the fake downtown or supposedly walkabout suburban developments within KC metro. While I dislike them all, I dislike them less than strip malls and big boxes.

Snow days have a way of exposing a community's priorities

Sharing cars across households makes so much sense, but is difficult by design. Insurance, repairs, scheduling, etc, get complicated. I'd love to learn more about working models for this. Seems like a larger collective would be more managable, but have to design the right incentives to regulate use.

Oops. #kcbaby

Over 8000 of the applications to volunteer for the World Cup specifically in Kansas City came from international applicants. It's gonna be a different city!

This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving

Hey downtown KC: I'm in the market for a new office space effective January. Small office or coworking within a few blocks of the streetcar preferred. Recommendations appreciated!

Housing for people > housing for cars!

As a marketing agency owner, I loathe Black Friday. Not just dealing with ads on the client side, but determining if I need to optimize my spend toward every platform and subscription I use that goes on sale at this time — and feeling like a chump for paying full price.

Every part of the delivery economy makes life in the city worse. More traffic and illegal parking, fewer people walking, empty restaurants with a revolving door of drivers barging through, etc. I get that there is a time and place for delivery, but I implore you: go be among the people!

The River Market is losing its neighborhood bike shop at the end of the year. :/ Cycling is still too much of a drive-to-ride culture in this city, and the neighborhood is still car centric and Amazon-supplied. I had high hopes but this is a bummer.

15 of the top 20 highest paid Kansas City, MO city positions are in the fire department. #20 earns $215,212. Maybe they've overextended their goodwill just a little?

I need someone smarter than me about the NWSL to confirm or dispel my pessimism about @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social's future. While it could have been brilliant strategy or luck, I feel like this year's dominant team was all about timing and they can't keep it together.

This may be reductive, but if we've spent billions on modern fire code implementation, shouldn't that have resulted in savings in our investment in municipal fire departments?

What Kansas City is taking far too long to understand...

Blue Nitro. Feels like cheating when my brother and I named our dog after an American Gladiator.

Oopsie daisy, accidentally murdered a journalist! We'll try to tone down the future murdering! Anyway, thanks for having us over to the Home Depot gold palace, pal!

Very calm before the storm vibes right now. Markets teetering on the edge of an AI bubble burst, the GOP dam bursting on the Epstein files... it is going to be a painful but cleansing next few weeks.

My two bike ride inspirations for the winter that I invite anyone to join: 1. Ride every mile of streets and trails that once had streetcars on them (and document any evidence of them) 2. Weekly long night rides exploring closed streets, renegade trails, and forgotten industrial areas.

Two observations in this discussion: 1. The fact that there is robust debate over the answer is a great sign that American cities are broadly on the ride 2. Coastal folks really need to get out more

I just want Kansas City to be a city where the first conversation people have when meeting at a bar or coffee shop isn't about where they parked. Before I die, please. We've come so far, and yet...

I get that there is a visceral appeal to giving food items to drives, but if you want to be effective, just give money! Food banks have bulk purchasing power that goes way further, and that's before the insane waste of logistics hauling that food all over the place.

This is brilliant

I don't know which is worse: that they're willing to look this stupid and assume their audience is this stupid to try to land a rhetorical jab, or they really are this stupid.

@kansascitycurrent.bsky.social sax anthem every game please. 💯

Same. The policy ideas helped build an identity and a movement. Some may be unfeasible or even counterproductive, but they resonated on a grander level than the specifics. I love the energy and excitement, and for people to feel like NYC belongs to them too.

The way the blue robot immediately starts celebrating its win...

There are 10 US Senators who represent states with a smaller total population than Mamdani's vote haul tonight. What a weird system.

Zohran's vote count is roughly the entire population of Delaware

Who wore it better? San Diego Wave manager Jonas Eidevall, or Dr. Evil? #kcbaby

The story you've been clamoring for: the petty NIMBYs of New Amsterdam. That latest from Multistory youtube.com/shorts/b7j5k...

The word "gentrification" has become meaningless, and intentionally limiting amenities and investment is not a humane strategy to preserve affordability. We need better strategies to lift up our neighborhoods.

Living close to immigrant neighborhoods is a massive value add. You can experience a difference culture in your own city, and if you're not careful you might learn something. Lasting damage aside, continued appeals to the worst possible instincts are as dumb as they are terrifying.

Found out that the excellent traffic calming streetscaping on 31st St took out one of our last few old school trolley poles from the last generation of service. This one next to Operation Breakthrough is still there, but they are getting more and more rare! Where have you spotted them?

In the most tragic mashup of everything that urbanists are screaming about, for obvious reasons: today, an unnecessarily large pickup truck turned right on red and critically injured a pedestrian in the crosswalk, causing a suspension of streetcar service. There is no excuse for right on red.

Collect 'em all! @kcstreetcar.org

The good news: 158 new homes planned for Columbus Park. 76 are single family, which is all good. The bad news: all of the single-family homes will have two-car garages. If we're still planning for a car per person downtown, and dedicating that much space and expense to it, it doesn't bode well.

Tomorrow, the @kcstreetcar.org extension opens, just over 5000 days since a group of downtown advocates first petitioned for a Transportation Development District after years of advocacy before that. What a wild journey it has been, and holy cow, it actually worked.

Hey, if this cuts down on the people who are evidently only there for the selfies, I'm all for it!

The fact that a lawyer runs TV ads of him driving around KC in his oversized Dodge Ram to establish his "I'm a real KC one" bonafides is frustratingly predictable.