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BAHUA WHERE ARE YOU

I was joking, obviously. I have no idea. Maybe someone thought they needed a fancy garage for their fancy employees to park in, fancily.

I can answer that (Dave can probably fact check me, but I think I have the gist): every single time it had come up for a vote, excluding the "Insane Chastain" proposal which was basically promising to make unicorns real, it failed. Repeatedly. And usually by a wide margin. Rather than keep failing, ...

"Guys, we have tens of millions of dollars that we have to spend before Friday or we'll get our budget cut!"

Is Texas BBQ better than KC BBQ? IMO, not really. But it is really good. And the pepper-forward, unsweet sauce they lean toward is infinitely better than the cloyingly sweet, diabetes-inducing garbage the folks around here tend to prefer. Is Franklin worth the wait? I'm not waiting in line for six h...

"You're gonna wanna get that foam dry cleaned before you let anyone else move in here."

Have you ridden the thing? It hauls a little ass occasionally. I mean, yeah, it's a shame we don't have the money and/or political will to run trains everywhere and provide transit to anywhere anyone would want to go, but we don't, so... we get what we can get. I bitched about this for years until I...

They can speak in force to whomever they wish, but if they can't influence voters, I don't see how it matters. What kind of outcome are you looking for? To have the places specifically built for white people with money to live so they can be as far away from non-white people with no money as possibl...

I assume because poor people live, and vote, inside the city and not in Lenexa? But, why is it alright to make housing affordable only in certain parts of the metro? And why are we pushing more affordability in the areas that are already the cheapest in the metro instead of pushing for equity where...

I assume because poor people live, and vote, inside the city and not in Lenexa?

Criminalizing being poor isn't going to do anything but create vastly more criminals in an already capacity-starved criminal justice system. Start billing the PDs that dump their problems in the city and then sue them when they don't pay? I dunno, but the richest county in the metro dumping its prob...

4) I want positive development in my neighborhood and I have no faith in KC to be able to legislate what you guys deem "good" or "acceptable". You guys think it's fine to piss away a good development and sit on a surface lot for 50 years because the fucking front door faces the wrong fucking street...

But, why does it make sense to have cars treated as a third priority in an area of town where 75% of the residents (if not more) consider automobiles their first-priority mode of transportation? Because in 100 years when you're dead and all the buildings built today are still standing, individual a...

Touche. Pretty sure I busted out my childhood anecdote for that one, too. I guess some things never change.

Sounds kind of like the 2020 version of the 1980 excuse that we don't want transit because all the city criminals will use it to come rob us, which is a dramatically less offensive wording of something I was literally told as a child. I know you're not making that argument, but I think it deserves a...

I seriously doubt the massive homeless populations in warm cities like LA and Miami are going to migrate to the midwest for free buses. Might attract a few extras from surrounding suburbs, Lawrence, etc., especially during winter months, but I don't really see it as a huge problem. Certainly not in ...

Vockrodt is a tool, but I don't think it's his personal bias he's attempting to confirm so much as the ever-dwindling number of suburban subscribers who keep inconveniently dying off.

My assessed value went down. I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad.

I was more responding to ember's earlier post.

For the record, I said nothing about a ban or anything. I just don't want to see anyone get mangled by an Escalade or have their skull split open on a curb, for their sake and mine.