KCRag Forum

I stand corrected about Cincinnati, by the way.  Next time I'll actually do my research before opening my mouth.  And your comments about Kansas' lack of respect seem to make sense.  That's probably the core of it, as you point out. It might be an interesting exercise for those involved in this thre...

Look, Johnson County makes me cringe just like anyone else here.  But I agree with the guy who suggested KCMO should admit fault also.  KCMO's decades of inept civic leadership is what allowed the state of Kansas to prey on it. Cincinnati is a split city, too, but their civic leadership has kept a n...

No, they wear Cincinnati Bearcats shirts.

I think people are just trying to say that a city's university reinforces that city's overall brand.

I think the surface lots around 8th and Wyandotte would be better for an urban Target than the P&L area.  The easy highway access up there would give it a pretty large catchment area (dt KCK, North KC, etc).

Does anyone know whatever happened to Sprint's plan to buy a 737 from a Chinese airline to shuttle employees between VA and Kansas City?  I think the Biz Journal article said they actually did buy it (this was a year or two ago).  Anyway, I was hoping to see it taking off from the downtown airport w...

What's changed that would make a grocery store viable now that wasn't ten years ago?  Not much, I guess.  The Kirkwood development will add some people right next door, but I don't know how many.  What confuses me is how a grocery store could fail with such close proximity to a large university.

So just for fun... I have somthing like 800 gigs of storage...across a 7 drive array...which is actually dissapointing anymore...but I'm not adding more till 1TB drives come down in price...then I plan on having 12TB's...with an easy 17 in the future ahead of that...but for now I'm only really usin...

The idea that Macs are either simplistic or are for simple people is leftover from the 90s. 1) Apple hardware quality is outstanding.  Go look at a Cinema Display at the Apple store on the plaza if you don't believe me.  And while you're in there, evaluate the quality of every piece of hardware you ...

I have a Giant Cypress hybrid bike (road style), which works perfectly for the tasks you described.  ~$300.  It's easy to add baskets, racks, head/tail lights, etc to name brand hybrid bikes.  You'll notice a huge difference between one of these and the typical $100 Walmart mountain bike in just abo...

Seriously these names are terrible.  They try to inject inspiration into these plastictown developments by naming them with hints of nobility and awe.  Lionsgate.  Prairie fire.  If a JOCO person was forced to say the truth, "I live in the shoddily constructed fake village on Nall," they'd...

lock+load wrote: Isn't Eddy planning a mayoral run?  What better way to kick start that than by fighting something that was just supported by 53% of the city.  Bad idea.

Yeah, he'll have fun explaining to Northland commuters why he wants them to sit in a bus when the population already voted for train service.

aknowledgeableperson wrote: One could say the fight has just started.  Don't expect to see any rails in the streets for many, many years.

Still a major turning point, though.  At least now it should be clear to Smartmoves that the public desires a rail spine.

If not this, what? This is what... Smart Moves.  But hey, it's just like a subway! "Smart Moves is a subway-style system tailored for the Kansas City region — only more cost effective and flexible over the long term. The system has three components: rapidriders, freewayflyers and locallinks....

After an e-mail exchange with someone at Smart Moves, I'm completely convinced they have no intention whatsoever of developing light rail.  "As the service and the system grow, these lines will continue to be evaluated for the potential to convert to light rail." Comments like this only pl...

Does the Smart Moves plan consider a river-plaza/or Waldo light rail spine too expensive?  Or do they honestly think a city needs to "prove" transit by increasing its bus ridership first?  Because, for as meticulously thought-out and process-oriented as they claim to be, I find it hard to ...

kcmetro wrote: they made our city look like the most hateful place on earth, so I think it's long overdue that somebody put a bullet in his head

nice. (in reference to the irony)

Why rent? You're throwing your money away. Plunk down some cash and make an investment. Its easier than ever to get financed. It will be well worth it. The hot real estate market we experienced has everyone in the country thinking that getting a mortgage and buying some property = an investment. It...

leaf wrote:
mother's lineage from iceland and rural MO. 

That's really cool.  I don't suppose any of that Icelandic language got passed down?

In my Roth, I have ETF's rather than mutual funds.  They have some advantages, like really low fees, and the ability to trade like a stock.  My Chinese fund 'FXI' has done pretty well, though not lately of course.

Sorry to hear.  That's funny that you broke the asshole's window, though.

I don't know which bothers me more: drivers being pricks to pedestrians, or the fact that it bothers me so much when it happens to me.  I wish I could just ignore it, shrug it off.  But I usually can't.