Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do

Streetcars need priority. In 1929 the Kansas City Public Service Company operated 743 streetcars along 318 miles of track. It also operated 76 buses serving 57 miles of bus routes.

My niece is turning 10 this year and is learning guitar, so my wife and I got her a discman and made her mix-CD’s. How’d I do?

1/4 The @kclibrary.bsky.social's new archive of @kansascity.com Star photos is fantastic. Here are two of my favorites that touch on current events in KCMO... (links and photographers in 4/4)

I'm quoted on NPR's marketplace on rental market stability during FIFA in #KCMO www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

Early Xmas present from the KCATA board! www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

Drivers do not care about you. They will murder you or maim you in a crosswalk, and the public will defend their right to do so. The cops will take the driver’s side, you’ll never see justice, and the road will never be redesigned to prevent this.

My cousin met the Pope. WTF is 2025 even?

one thing we need to do as a society is treat all fraud or theft over $100 million or so as a potential capital crime, with the possibility of execution for offenders.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

KC firefighter drove SUV drunk on Missouri 152. He’s still on the job. A story via @judylt.bsky.social www.kansascity.com/news/local/c...

Standing for "God Bless America"

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The game was incredible by the way, Royals with a come-back win scoring 4 runs in the bottom of the 8th. I had a fantastic time and it reminded me why I love this sport. And that's what's so frustraiting about Sherman having his hand out... 1/3

At the Royals’ game, John Sherman is about 15 rows in front of me. Should I tell that billionaire leech to pay for his own damn stadium?

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

200 years of homes in Kansas City

@dennisgoris.bsky.social By Dennis Goris.

Lori Thomas is being paid to tell you that you shouldn't be. Don't volunteer for FIFA. If they want labor they could very easily pay for it. www.kcur.org/podcast/up-t...

The Royals have one good outing against an elite closer and two days later MLB opens a sports-betting investigation. 😂

Smart enough to be a surgeon but too dumb to understand the sunk cost fallacy. Someone needs to tell Dr. Paramjeet Sabharwal that he sucks at real estate investment. O.P. Citizens shouldn't have to put up with his recklessness. (See also: 101 Linwood in KCMO.) www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

So much about this article is infuriating. Bought in 2019 by an out-of-state slumlord for $425,000 and left to rot and now the brilliant idea from the City is to give the slumlord a $525,000 windfall by buying the property for $1 million. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

Rather than maintain the historic property he stewards, noted slumlord Del Hedgepath is seeking to decapitate the Loretto's bell tower, a midtown landmark since 1904. His destructive request goes before KCMO's Historic Preservation Commission this Friday... drive.google.com/file/d/10n9B...

Coverage of last week's meetings of the KCMO City Planning Commission and Parks Board in This Week at City Hall from the UMKC - Center for Neighborhoods... cfn.umkc.edu/this-week-at...

This Week at City Hall is back after a brief hiatus. Check out the Center for Neighborhood's reporting on development meetings at City Hall with the link below. cfn.umkc.edu/this-week-at...

I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙 Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬

Reminder, it hurts no one to throw rocks at autonomous vehicles.

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

Today is the *last day* to apply for the Community Transportation Academy organized by @bikewalkkc.bsky.social ! This is a great chance to learn more about the KC region's transportation system and how to change it. Apply today and please share: bikewalkkc.org/advocacy/aca...

As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

Greater Kansas City friends: If you haven't already, please consider applying for the Community Transportation Academy organized by @bikewalkkc.bsky.social ! It's a great chance to learn more about our region's transportation system. Please share! bikewalkkc.org/advocacy/aca...

we have now swung around from police militarization (cops looking identical to soldiers) to police chuddification (cops looking like half-drunk proud boys in downtown Portland circa 2019)

Investors now own 30% of metro Atlanta’s single-family rental homes, per AJC.

DO NOT VOLUNTEER for this BS. For the amount of money FIFA will make from this they can afford to pay folks. www.kansascity.com/sports/fifa-...

Basic rules? All law enforcement officers should wear identification No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams All law enforcement officers should understand, respect and follow the law

KC firefighter kept his job after rape charge. Why others were protected too www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

Today the Finance passed items that explores a temporary jail & enforces loitering. Both items take aim at our unhoused & neither will provide housing for these folks. Funding housing for our people & support services for their healing is the only way forward. Anything less is a shameful waste.

On this day May 13th, 1985 the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on the Move Home at 6221 Osage Avenue killing 11 people including 5 children. collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu/stories/move...

This creep, Biscari, recklessly killed 3 people while a firefirghter and is mad that the city tried to hold him accountable for that fact. Unbelievable. The public safety unions in this town have no shame.

The City just spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on ProspectUS, a process that began with the notion that TOD could save a moribund corridor. Now, at one of the most transit-rich intersections in the city, a developer wants to build this garbage. Will the City push back at all? 1/5

as long as the material conditions of people’s lives are tied to patterns of racial inequality — as long as racism marks them as racialized people exposed to some of the worst forms of social domination and class inequality — then there is no disregarding race as a social reality

Happy Hitler Shoots Himself In The Head day to all who celebrate. The 80th anniversary. May his ignominious end, with his body doused in petrol and burned by his last remaining loyalists, be a model for all tyrants.

Applications are now open for BikeWalkKC's second Community Transportation Academy (deadline June 6). Learn how you can influence a transportation system that supports safety, health, equity, climate, business, and more! bikewalkkc.org/advocacy/aca...

It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you

MODOT to small town main streets: DROP DEAD thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025... 1/6