Midtown wisdom

So you ever wonder how racism builds in small town communities? This is a small, weekly newspaper in a community that is 93% white. There were 7 reported car crashes fatalities for the week - and one magically got covered three times

Salt Lake City Sunset

KCI is getting World Cup. Ready

Waiting to board a flight on Southwest and they are having boarding delays because of limits in overhead bin space and doing gate checks. The inevitable outcome of a bad policy decision #bagsshouldflyfree

Kinda nailed it

Decimating our environment doesn't (yet) look like a casino being built at Yellowstone. It is a series of protection rollbacks, pollution, logging, etc that eventually get us to where our rivers, streams and wild places are no longer themselves

They just played the Bare Naked Ladies on bar music trivia and the reactions of the trivia players makes me feel like I’m too old to be here

There isn’t enough talk about how Pittsburgh reclaimed its river fronts for people

Weekend nature break.

You are not going to be rich. Fight to tax the rich AND for universal public goods.

#nokings in Topeka, Kansas

CBS not spacing out the end of these first two games is annoying

My wife is making her regular calls to our elected senators and it’s crazy to think that a Josh Hawley is somehow our least bad senator

Man. I’m old enough to remember POTUS bragging about $2 gas’s prices and the stock market over 50,000 (dollars or something). That was 3 weeks ago during the state of the union.

Great story (and video) about Vienna removing parking and parking minimums in favor of walkability, bike lanes and green space. www.dw.com/en/how-one-c...

Ahhh. So the end game, again, is to help Russia

Mac and cheese vending machine. We’ve reached peak — something

The Kansas Flint Hills

Such bike lane disrespect

It’s amazing that given tariffs, Epstein, Iraq, corruption, violating court orders, etc that 1/2 of congress has looked at the dramatic blue wave and thought “yeah, I’m going down on this ship”

We're at war with Iran And Ecuador The DOJ is hiding information about POTUS's involvement with a sexual predator The DOJ has killed American protestors & consistently violated the constitution re: immigration POTUS has threatened to invade NATO allies For Congress, when is it enough to act?

Kansas City Lights

8 of our 12 gold medals this year were won by women - but they are cheering for the men at the SOTU. And that’s what you need to know about this presidency

If nothing else good comes from the Epstein saga and last 9 years of politics, we can at least lay to rest any notion that just because someone is rich or in a position of power doesn't make them smart or a good person.

Dogs are awesome

The top 5 dogs of the week is always a great way to end the week -- this week shows the best and the worst of us.

Starting to see signs pop up around the area

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

I'm saddened that the people of Minneapolis are having to endure our national struggles in their city (again), but also in awe of the people in Minneapolis are leading the fight against autocracy. I hope the rest of us are as ready when our time comes.

Yes. Shumer & Jeffries are not up for this moment

Shut it all down. Own the shutdown. Make sure once agent gets paid. Track who funds them anyway.

It’s not enough that we are protesting our government leadership stateside. Denmark is protesting us too

"Over time, American cities have made a quiet tradeoff: In the name of safety, efficiency, and liability management, they have narrowed the conditions under which play is allowed to happen." Great read from @strongtowns.org www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026...

Tonight’s sunset was fire

Important and informative article. And a frightening time this is a consideration we must take to protect ourselves from our own government.

Watching the news this week and dry January are inconguent

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

Wow Kansas City. Nothing like a 60 degree January day while everyone is still vowing to exercise more for the new year. Covid-era volume of walking going on out there. All the neighborhood dogs should sleep well tonight

Dogs really are the best.

I'm not sure struggling to remember my password is giving me confidence to start the work week.

I’ve lived in this neighborhood for 20 years, and so much has changed. But I’m still struggling to get used to hearing screams and it’s just children playing and not someone in distress

I could choose the exorcist or the Godfather and, well, yeah

This all feels like a corporate/state shell game where corporations keep getting incentives to jump back and forth across the state line while ordinary citizens pick up the tax bill for everything.

I get so frustrated when Kansas City refuses to save historic buildings because they are “unsalable”. Yet, other cities go to great lengths to save them. These two buildings were essentially razed, yet their historic facades remain. It’s possible if there is the will to do so

Free business idea: a candy wrapper that doesn’t make the annoying crinkling sound in public spaces. Please and thank you

This should be a complete no-brainer. Both parties accuse the other of insider trading and making laws to enrich themselves. Both have the power to fix it, but thus far have chosen not to.

Powerful

I sure am glad people are finally catering toward KC’s business elite www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n...

Solid