Northeast News
November 6, 2013

There are many issues afoot that require increased vigilance on behalf of the citizenry of this city, least of which is the ongoing separation discussion undertaken by the Kansas City Museum and Union Station. Never mind that the City Council-ordered audit of Union Station and the mil levy hasn’t even gotten off the city auditor’s desk due to political foot-dragging by Councilwoman Jan Marcason’s malfeasance.

The only place you’ve seen the real story on this whole hot mess is in the pages of The Pitch and the pages of this newspaper. Apparently, the Star doesn’t want to step on feet or rock the boat at Union Station. No surprise there.

But museum discussions aren’t the only thing lurking as a potential danger to area citizens. The mayoral appointed Charter Review Commission has recently proposed some eye opening revisions to the charter that gives the mayor quite a bit more power and gives the City Council a third, four-year term. In terms of Council people (Glover, Marcason, Johnson and the Third District folks, Curls and Reed), this should scare the livin’ daylights out of any common sense based citizen. Super Blogger Tony Botello wisely points out such a change would mean that Jim Glover would have spent a majority of his professional career as an elected official at City Hall. Scared yet? This pooch certainly is.

In a city that seems to be modeling its governance structure under a presidential administration that routinely shreds the Constitution and “governs” through the issuance of executive order after executive order, this conservative, limited government based canine is shiverin’ in her doggie slippers. Keep in mind this is the city that gerrymandered the downtown streetcar district in order to advance a boutique transportation option that was removed from city streets more than 60 years ago – for good reason we might add. Then, at last week’s City Council meeting, council members authorized spending another $17 million on more streetcars. Folks, we haven’t laid one inch of track, but the city is buying streetcars? Seriously? Wake up people, keep your eyes on the ball. The city is playing a shell game and is fervently hoping you’ll be watching elsewhere when the defecation strikes the rotary oscillator.