Not drinkin’ the airport Kool-Aid

Posted April 9, 2013 at 11:00 pm

April 10, 2013

When a sitting city councilman runs away from a TV news reporter like Russ Johnson did last week when he tried to get shed of KMBC’s Michael Mahoney, you know the whole proposal must stink to high heaven. It does. Period, paragraph, done. We won’t even begin to address Johnson’s elitist, smarter than thou arrogance he exhibited when Mahoney finally caught him at the elevators; the bottom line is this town doesn’t want or need a new $2 billion airport.

Fact: Kansas City International Airport is one of the most convenient and user friendly airports in the country as ranked annually by consumer polling agency J.D. Power and Associates. But apparently that factoid flew over the heads of the folks at 12th and Oak. By God, we’re building this thing and you’re going to like it.

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    City earns kudos from NE News

    February 27, 2013

    This feisty, opinionated news diggin’ pooch spends a lot of time in the column offering critical analysis of things that just don’t sit right or completely defy common sense. We’re going to depart from that this week and offer some praise to the city of Kansas City for their tireless work last Thursday in keeping the city’s streets and byways as clear as humanly possible.

    In impossible conditions, this newsdog witnessed plows running up and down St. John Avenue, often at a rate of three or four times per hour. Overnight, from Thursday in to Friday, we continued to

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    Feelin’ the love…not so much

    February 20, 2013

    Recently here at the House of News we’ve been having issues with people illegally dumping their trash bags on our property next to our dumpster. Last week, we caught the culprit in the act, an African woman who was recently settled in the house behind us by the folks at Jewish Vocational Services. We advised the woman that she had free trash service, allowing up to two bags weekly at her curb. The language barrier barred any two-way communication, however, until another member of the household stepped out and we were able

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    Safety, shmafety. Be quiet and take your medicine.

    February 13, 2013

    Kudos to the parents at Holy Cross Catholic School who last week organized a press event to show just exactly how dangerous the St. John and Quincy intersection is after the city hastily changed the push button traffic crossing signal to a signal that now simply blinks yellow all the time.

    The city sent a spokesman for the Public Works Department along with a city engineer to speak with the concerned parents about the changes at the stoplights. But instead of constructive dialogue, we got a

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    Let the vilification commence


    February 6, 2013

    This past week, there’s been considerable talk about the homeless camp that was essentially raided along the entrance ramp to northbound I-35 off The Paseo. Neighborhood residents who expressed concern over the mounting crime brought in to the neighborhood by said occupants of the now displaced camp have now been put in the crosshairs by critics who think we’re bullying the homeless and we should leave them alone.

    Well, here’s a newsflash for those critics who by and large don’t live with the issue day and

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    Worth crowing about!

    January 30, 2013

    They’re everywhere – big, black and noisy. This newshound has seen more than her fair share of crows this winter and they’re beginning to caw-caw-cost her some serious sleep time on the weekends.

    If you’re noticing a bigger presence of crows this winter, you’re not alone. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, the migratory patterns of crows often pass through Missouri because they like it here. Now before you go all Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren, know that crows are among the smartest animals on

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    No such luck…

    January 23, 2013

    When city crews showed up last Thursday to work on the traffic signal at St. John and Topping, we thought that maybe, just maybe our story in regard to the traffic signals that continue to dangerously blink yellow had some positive effect at City Hall.

    We also fielded several calls and a few visits from neighbors, who after noticing the work crew, stopped in to say thanks for getting the city to fix the dangerous situation.

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    Flashing yellow equals danger

    January 16, 2013 

    More than a few months ago, city crews acted on orders from the city’s Public Works director and began the removal of traffic signals at a number of key intersections throughout the city. At two of those intersections along St. John Avenue (St. John and Quincy and St. John and Topping), the school crossing signals were disabled and now flash yellow, creating an extra hazard for students crossing the street there as well as the crossing guard assigned to the intersection to keep those students safe.

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    NE traffic circle creamed again

     

    January 9, 2013

    Once again the Benton Circle was decimated over the weekend by an errant driver traveling at a high rate of speed. And of course, they sailed right through the new fence installed by crews less than 30 days ago, leaving a debris trail that stretches across the circle, the street and into the trees on the west side of Gladstone Boulevard. The most recent repair was due to an errant moron, who early in 2012 decided they would do some DIY landscape work to the circle late one night, obviously after copious

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    A brave New Year at the House of News

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    January 2, 2013 

    It’s 2013 and this snow-covered Newshound couldn’t be happier to see 2012 ushered out the door. We here at the House of News are extremely excited about the upcoming year and some of the special projects we’ve got in the works right now.

    The big news is that later this spring, we’ll be releasing a new book by our award-winning outdoors writer Kenneth Kieser entitled: “Missouri’s Great Flood of 1993,” which revisits an epic natural disaster. Covering

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