Tony's Kansas City

• TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! HOOKERS AT INK ARE STEALING MOST OF THEIR IDEAS FROM MY BLOG!!!

  
  
  They say that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
  
  They also say that privileged, young-ish, white ladies are the most ruthless people on the planet . . . Okay I'm the only one who says that . . . But still.
  
  Let's [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:56pm EST
  

• Kansas City Fails To Lure Figure Skating

  KCUR news guy Dan Verbeck notes that after a serious bid this cowtown flubbed an effort to lure the national figure skating championships.
  
  Sure, this some of the skaters had connections to the town that eventually won the bid (San Jose) but then again Kansas City has a [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  

• New Blog: Fake Kansas City Sports!!!

  A rather funny new effort that I'm adding to my blogroll.' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:41pm EST
  

• Kansas City Against Larry Johnson

  
  
  I was thinking that the online petition against LJ is probably the only hope for Democracy in this cowtown.
  
  Still, I think the wording seems a little bitter but maybe that's the point of expressing an opinion online: "Stop Larry Johnson from being the" [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:31pm EST
  

• Another Ruskin Heights Homicide

  The murder capital of South KC keeps it's rep as of late. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:29pm EST
  

• TKC Confirmed!!!! Kim Carlos & Kansas City's Hotel Hot Mess Move Forward!!!

  The Biz Journal has the horrible details of how Kansas City is wasting money trying to get into the hotel business. TKC readers were talking about it last night. Especially this passage: Among the contracts approved by the steering committee on Tuesday was a $40,000 contract with Kim [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:26pm EST
  

• Tasty Kansas City Wednesday Night Links

  
  
  Some delicious local news stories I'm reading:
  
  Your Midweek South Kansas City Murder: KCMO Police Investigate Fatal Shooting
  
  JoCo Comeuppance: Overland Park police arrested a 19-year-old woman who police said ran over a woman gardening in her front yard' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:57pm EST
  

• Kansas City Jazz Notes

  Plastic Sax puts on a great show for this week in Kansas City Jazz links. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:53pm EST
  

• Let's Vote On Red Light Cameras!!!

  The only decent idea out of The Star today. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:52pm EST
  

• TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! ALLEGATIONS OF LOCAL 42 RETALIATION AGAINST SAVE MAST LEADER!!!

  
  
  Like it or not, Kansas City politics is often a zero-sum game. Even worse, this cowtown isn't known for any real compassion but rather a smiling phoniness that's content to happily watch the demise of political enemies. These two facts of life should inform the subject' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:13am EST
  

• TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! MAYOR FUNKY MAKES MAMMYGATE DISAPPEAR FROM CASENET!!!

  
  
  Here's a bit of disgusting special privilege or maybe just a convenient lapse of memory that works to the advantage of the Mayor who once touted the cause "regular folks."
  
  A VERY AWESOME TKC TIPSTER notes the following: "Missouri keeps record of all court actions" [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:47am EST
  

• Chasing Goat For Stolen Treasure Isn't as Dirty As It Sounds

  NBC Action News: A dog chasing a goat led deputies to what one of them called, "the Home Depot of stolen property" Tuesday [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:35am EST
  

• COMBAT was all timing

  Mahoney blog makes a good point. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:34am EST
  

• TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! WILL GREGORY NOW RUNS MAYOR FUNKY'S X-MAS TREE!!!

  
  
  I like Will Gregory and that's saying something because I usually have the instinct to punch most PR dudes in the face repeatedly as if they were an old man waiting to be robbed in a Shawnee Mission Grocery Store parking lot.
  
  Anyhoo [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:22am EST
  

• Boss Tom Would've Loved Something As Sleazy As The COMBAT Tax

  
  
  Jackson County will now dedicate more than 20 years to fighting a losing drug war.
  
  Here are just a few things to remember:
  
  Not one coward politico in Kansas City came out against this tax despite so many claims from elected officials that they're' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:08am EST
  

• Are The Wizards Suffering from Kansas City "Big Fish in a Small Pond" Syndrome?!?!?

  
  
  Here's the answer to my constant argument that Kansas City Soccer is overrated and undeserving of any tax breaks or media attention mainly due to their under-performing attendance:"The last two years The Wizards finished bottom in attendance due to playing at CommunityAmerica Ballpark, where our" [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:30am EST
  

• JoCo Justice On Special

  KCTV5: An assistant district attorney in Johnson County was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting from an Overland Park grocery store Sunday. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:17am EST
  

• Local Po'Folk Get More Time

  KCP&L is launching a program called Connections that, among other things, will give customers who can't pay a monthly bill an extra 30 days.' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:15am EST
  

• Relief for Non-Factor Funkhouser

  
  
  NBC Action News reports on a big nothing of a story: "On Wednesday, Kansas City's internal auditor will release the results of his investigation of the mayor's office.
  
  NBC Action News was allowed, by a source, to see the report in its entirety Tuesday" [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:59am EST
  

• Buffett Big Bet Involves Kansas City

  So, it's obvious he's going to lose. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:56am EST
  

• Independence makes it rain for schools

  The Star: Independence School District voters approved an $85 million bond issue on Tuesday. The measure was one of the biggest school bond issues on a Missouri ballot Tuesday. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:53am EST
  

• The Star Late to the K2 Story

  The Star finally gets a whiff of the Kansas K2 story . . . Saw it on KSHB 41 last week. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:47am EST
  

• KCMSD Stadium

  KMBC's Karen Kornacki reported that the district will gut Southeast high School stadium, which is about 50 years old, and build a new multi-sports complex. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:43am EST
  

• The Consequences of MWWS!!!

  
  
  Last week an Amber Alert turned out to be a fake . . . Today there are consequences for publicly embarrassing police, media and the SUPREMACY that runs the airwaves. Police say two relatives of a missing girl's boyfriend face charges for telling officers they didn't' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:36am EST
  

• Kansas City Star Reports Superintendent Covington Hype Hook, Line And Sinker

  The Star is now nothing more than The Kansas City Missouri School District's PR Machine and that just might be because they don't have any resources to do otherwise.
  
  In one of the lamest stories I've ever read that obviously relies on nothing more than PR from the [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:24am EST
  

• Local Po'Folk Now Take Plastic

  The Star: New to the Kansas City area will be at least 10 Salvation Army kettles with machines to take donations through credit or debit cards. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:21am EST
  

• Show Me KC Sewer Nasty

  NBC Action News: State Investigating KC Sewer Spill . . . About 900 gallons of sewage were spilled Monday into a tributary of the Blue River in south Kansas City, Mo. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:19am EST
  

• KCK Hip-Hop Success Story (kinda)

  
  
  Work hard and study TKC readers . . . If not, you'll probably end up on the Internets trying to put together a rap career in middle-age.
  
  Here's the bio that accompanies the vid featured in this post:
  
  "Originally from Kansas City, Kansas, Ric-Hard G'" [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:15am EST
  

• KC Star Columnist Mike "Human Stain" Hendricks Makes His Living by Reading TKC

  Today Hendricks notes a lack of progress on Cleaver's Green Zone . . . It's a simple column that doesn't require much research.
  
  Nevertheless, two weeks ago AWESOME TIPSTERS provided TKC readers with a document featuring independent verification of a controversial fact . . . Meanwhile, that' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:07am EST
  

• A few hundred say no to Edwardsville tax

  Nobody votes . . . Even The Star is making fun: "After a grand total of 350 votes were counted in Edwardsville, no sales tax increase will be implemented in the city." Just 12.5 percent of Edwardsviile's 2,806 registered voters cast ballots. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:03am EST
  

• The TKC Wednesday Morning Link Look

  
  
  Just a few things I'm looking at . . .
  
  This was a big story recently but I'm not sure I understand why so many people are excited over a huge junkyard find: Police Begin 'Overwhelming' Stolen Property Investigation Stolen [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:41am EST
  

• The Onion Name-checks Olathe

  The Onion makes a funny about the nation/world waiting for the death of Glenn Beck . . . Tumble-Orama spots the local shoutout. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:34am EST
  

• Shh!!! JoCo is killing deer.

  WDAF: Managed Deer Hunt Quietly Proceeding in Metro Park . . . Quiet, nobody tell Jason Miller. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:30am EST
  

• Halls: What The Chic

  
  
  The future of Advertising is producing content that people actually want to see. Halls seems to have the right idea with new webisodes that only some broad in the market for expensive shoes could enjoy.
  
  Via Mary Anne's About.com Blog [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:20am EST
  

• Local GOP Gloating

  Conservatism with Heart seems rather happy that The Obama Era of completely political dominance seems to be over. Her thoughts on the subject seem a little bit more genuine than the local GOP talking points coming from The Source. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:17am EST
  

• In praise of the KC Performing Arts Center and subsequent Westside Gentrification

  Mo Rage is happy about downtown construction. I can't help but think that it might lead to even more white people losing money by mistakenly believing their own PR. Interesting TKC Fact that mainstream media will never report: The Internets says that the architect for the project, Moshe' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:00am EST
  

• The Full Story On TKC

  
  
  There's a couple of interesting items for this morning.
  
  However . . . I was talking to a friend of mine (they exist) and I was reminded that this town is exceedingly nice i.e. cowardly. And I've decided that just isn't helping things. So [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:48am EST