TKC MEGAPOST!!! REALITY CHECK: WINTER DECAY AND BLIGHT AMID KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS REPURPOSING @ OLD AND BUSTED WEST JR./SWITZER COMPLEX!!!
As the winter of our Kansas City discontent continues, it's important to look at the legacy of promises from local politicos.
To wit . . .
CHECK OUR LATEST TKC MEGAPOST CHRONICLING ONGOING KCPS BLIGHT JUST BLOCKS AWAY FROM THE UPCOMING TOY TRAIN STREETCAR LINE!!!
The reality here is that politicos are always good for promises during election time but one fruitless planning session follows the next and a myriad of empty schools still litter the neighborhoods of Kansas City along with a great many empty houses . . .
Here's an up-close & personal look at the tragedy of KCPS re-purposing for voters tempted to believe people running for office during election season
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And this is why people move to JoCo. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteIn 1988, America was the best place to be born in the world.
ReplyDeleteFast forward 25 years or so... and The United States now ranks 16th, just above South Korea and just below Taiwan and Belgium.
Yes thanks to gen internet we've managed to become an exceptional 16th.
ReplyDeleteBut isn't this supposed to become one of those affordable market rate apartment things. $1700 a month for a tiny one bedroom type of deal?
ReplyDeleteWelcome to CKMO. Land of King Momo
ReplyDeleteThat pic with Fuck You spray painted on the wall pretty much sums up CK's commitment to education.
ReplyDeleteTony, it would be so impressive if you put on a bid and took one down. Then, you could bring some of your equity in and redevelop the building into one of community pride.
ReplyDeleteYES, IY WOULD BE GREAT FOR YOU TO DO THAT.
I better stop drinking this early in the day.
And that is why we are at 16. Too many people content to sit on their ass all day, rather than adding to the GNP.
Don't let some ugly photographs deter you. We are going to discuss the fate of Thacher tonight at the Indian Mound Neighborhood Association meeting; 6:30 p.m. at Calvary Temple, 5612 St. John Ave.
ReplyDeleteWe are holding a planning meeting on Feb 23 (location TBD) before we make our case to the KCPS school board on the Feb 25th. Make no mistake, the residents of Kansas City's east side communities don't just *want* the blighted schools in their neighborhoods to be repurposed, they *need* them to be. I've been pitching this idea with overwhelmingly positive response for the past year. I recognize the difficulty that it poses, but it is in the city's and school district's best interests to do this for a number of reasons.
I'll leave it at that for now. If you want to know more, like "Save Thacher, Save Our Schools," on Facebook, look for our announcement for the Feb 23 meeting, and plan to attend the school board meeting next Wednesday.
And the mostly-federally funded Streetcar project has WHAT, exactly, do to with the School District?
ReplyDeleteOh....nothing?
Also, Stalder, if you use Esq. and you're not a lawyer, people might think you're misrepresenting yourself as a lawyer, or practicing law without a license. or just kind of a douche.
Which one is it?
Also if the the meeting will honestly discuss getting that dump torn down once and for all, I'll be there. Otherwise, no.
Tony will be there with his $7.28 in change.
ReplyDeleteHe wont do anything, but he will take pictures and criticize the efforts of others.
Man, to be happy with that kind of day.
All the developers are wintering in the Virgin Islands right now. Maybe a few will put in a bid on the school if the tax incentives and subsidies are attractive enough. Or buy it so they can hold everyone hostage to an empty lot because it gives them a tax write off.
ReplyDeleteDidn't West close in the late '70s? And it's still there????
ReplyDeleteIsn't it in the Mexican part of town? Why did it close?
The schools have closed because everyone not missing screws in their heads have been getting the hell out of Jackass County as soon as humanly and economically possible.
ReplyDeleteKC used to be a nice place to raise kids and have a family. Once upon a time.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry King Sly Momo James will find a solution.
ReplyDeleteReasons to believe are in short supply these days.
ReplyDeleteIt's cold, miserable. Perhaps a Frog Pot Challenge would warm things up.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time I loved KC....so glad I got the fuck out...anywhere is the place you want to be...so I loaded up the truck and left the economic and social decay and the grifters behind!!!
ReplyDeleteI hope the hope the cute helium voiced blonde anchor babe on 41 news covers this.
ReplyDeleteCan't Lynn spin it into a cognitive dissonance writeup impossible to process mentally?
ReplyDeleteMoving on. Come on Tony. Entertain us. Amuse us.
ReplyDeleteWE'RE BACK!!! COMING SOON!!! BE HERE!!!
ReplyDeleteTKC post weekend Monday evening therapy. Bring it on.
ReplyDeleteCK Politicians have a choice. It's either torches and hounds or Tony's Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteBastards should show some gratitude.
Monday nights here is like getting smelling salts to snap you out of the media coma weekends.
ReplyDeleteThere was a great plan to develop this site about 10 years ago but the whiny whiny Westside killed it because it would have made the neighborhood "too dense", which is to say, about half as dense as it was when it was a nice, functioning urban neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteWhy we love ‘Empire’? Cookie, the Lyon queen
ReplyDeleteJeneé Osterheldt was obviously Hearne Christophers replacement.
STREETCAR LINE TO PASS CLOSE TO GATES OF HELL
ReplyDeleteTHEOLOGIST RAGE
Pass the pretzels while were waiting.
ReplyDeleteHow bout a year round haunted house attraction.
ReplyDeleteA few minor repairs and your set.
Leave it as is and put it on the fabulous school ruins of Kansas City tour.
ReplyDeleteThe Arthur Benson Legacy
ReplyDeleteWalking tours every Sat and Sun.
WTF we still paying school taxes!
ReplyDeleteFor WHAT!!!!! This?
Tony should blame his cousin Crispin Rea, Airick West and Shannon Jaxx the three amigos for fucking this goat.
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