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Kansas City Big Game Crackdown
Law enforcement aims to crackdown on drunken Super Bowl revelers
Everybody Loves Obamacare
Marketplace Enrollment Climbs In Kansas, Missouri
KCMO Snail Mail Shakedown
Attempted robbery of postal worker alleged in KC
Show-Me Welfare Consideration
Feb. 5, 2016 Editorial: Food Stamps
Rock Chalk Binge Drinking Bill
Kansas bill would protect underage drinkers who seek help
Golden Ghetto Doggie Dies Today
Overland Park apartment building on fire, residents evacuated
Dead Tree Media Talks New Airport
Steve Paul: Is plan to renovate KCI really over?
And this is the OPEN THREAD for right now . . .
I've said it before - I don't think its "settling" or "short sighted" to recognize the Kansas City market. We are not a hub airport and have very little international service. No airlines have made any promises or even suggested that will change. Hence, there is little need for lavish terminals that cater to the shopping, dining, entertainment needs of travelers that are stuck in long layovers or accommodate some kind of complex baggage handling system to make sure luggage gets to a connecting flight in time.
ReplyDeleteWould you rather have more expensive tickets, longer waits at security, and a harder time parking/getting to the terminal so that you can have dining options such as McDonalds, Taco Bell, and Quiznos after you pass through security? I can't think of any other airports that I would feel comfortable arriving at the airport 30-45 minutes before my flight leaves and not worry about getting stuck in security, ticketing lines, parking mess, etc.
The consultants and airport execs are missing the ball on this one. Embrace what kind of market Kansas City is and make it as convenient as possible. I'd rather see the investment spending as little time as possible at the airport - quicker curb-side pick-up, closer parking, direct flights (i.e. skip airport time all together) than an expensive (and less convenient terminal) single terminal that offers another place to get a cup of coffee.
Yes please make those welfare fucks like Byron have to do something to get food stamps. If you can sit and blog all day on the computer there are many things you could be doing say about 140 hours a month not just 80.
ReplyDeleteThe airport interior was completely renovated 15 years ago. Everything down to the walls. Don't let them tell you it's a 40 year old airport from a passenger standpoint. What was NOT renovated was the underground systems and some other things. Need more outlets, wifi, bathrooms? Fine. Simple adds for a few million dollars. Then fix a couple of cracks and some leaky pipes for a couple of hundred million and you're set for another 20 years. We're still paying for the last remodel and there is room for more restaurants (look up) even though the ones that are there are rarely maxed as is.
ReplyDeleteThey are already in preparation for the change. Subway is getting robbed daily.
ReplyDeleteTroll, I'm not on "food stamps".
ReplyDeleteTroll, I'm not on welfare.
ReplyDeleteWe find a most disgraceful, biased, insulting article here from Steve Paul of The Kansas City Star Editorial Board. That's the same Kansas City Star who broke their pledge to not seek additional tax breaks on their local infrastructure, and hired the Polsinelli law firm to shepherd through millions of dollars of tax breaks for their corporate parent, all to the detriment of Kansas City residents who pay their fair share.
ReplyDeleteLet's examine Mr. Paul's opening lines:
"Maybe she’d been listening, or maybe she was blinded by her own foregone conclusion. But an hour long presentation on the relative drawbacks of a major renovation of Kansas City International Airport did not move the needle for City Council member Teresa Loar. She just couldn’t get her brain around the thing she didn’t want to hear."
So, before he even has a chance to inform the reader what his topic is, Steve Paul is suggesting that Council member Loar likely wasn't paying attention during a meeting. WTF? And maybe there's something wrong with her brain as well, he hints. WTF?, once again.
Let's pick out some of his loaded propaganda language, and highlight it below.
"renovation schemes"----"schemes" is purposely used here to strongly suggest to the reader that any plans other than a new single terminal are some form of trickery. Mr. Paul, of course, neglected to mention that the consultants pushing the Civic Council/Mayor James single terminal proposal are talking their own book. It's in their own financial interest to promote the most expensive plan supported by the business community. The business community which stands to reap millions of dollars in design/construction contracts relating to the new terminal.
"..$1 billion, more or less, a cost that would be borne mostly by the airlines and airport users, not by city taxpayers."------In this excerpt, Mr. Paul places his sub-par intelligence on full display for all who are paying attention while they read. Note the qualifier "mostly" is employed, and the suggestion that taxpayers will not end up footing the bill for this project is ridiculous. Why does Steve Paul not understand basic economics? Namely, that businesses (airlines in this case) will pass through their costs to consumers.
"..Loar, who had made smirky faces"-----well now, this is simply insulting! Steve Paul is an asshole!! He'll publicly insult a member of the KCMO Council who dares to ask questions rather than be steamrolled by a consortium which made their decision behind closed-doors a long time ago with little to no public input.
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ReplyDelete"Loar had pulled a late stunt"---excuse me? Steve Paul is the one pulling stunts here. Publicity stunts to provide cover for his political masters and those who provide his bribes.
"But it also fails on many counts — when bad weather wreaks havoc on airline schedules, when you’re looking to charge your phone or laptop, when, oh-oh, you’re all of a sudden in a long security line you didn’t plan for. Or when you’re on a business trip to Kansas City and wonder whether the dingy atmosphere you’ve just deplaned into was some kind of an omen."----Straight from the Chamber of Commerce, through the hand of the ventriloquist, into the mouth of the dummy (Steve Paul) the words flow. This new airport terminal is not for area residents, it's all an attempt to impress outsiders, while the politically-connected rake in huge profits from what would be one the largest building projects KCMO has seen in decades. Ditto for the proposed downtown convention hotel.
"Will KCI traffic really grow by 40 percent by 2030, as airline projections supposedly suggest? Maybe you could quibble with that number, but where’s the evidence that it won’t?"----Here's where Steve Paul jabs the aspiration tube into his ear and vacuums all remaining grey matter from his skull. We're currently in the year 2016. Anyone who seriously believes that KCI air traffic will grow by 40 percent in the next 14 years is delusional. And asking for evidence to refute a hypothetical hallucination, is like me stating that I'll be the world's wealthiest man by 2030, and demanding that you present evidence that I won't be. Steve Paul is a superficial thinker, a man who wallows in the wading pool while adults congregate in the deep end.
"I’ve been in favor all along of a renovation/preservation solution. Like Loar, I really want to be sufficiently convinced that it makes no sense. I’m not there yet, but I can see that day coming."----Well, I see Mr. Paul decided to end this article with a flourish of bullshit. After serving as cheerleader for the Civic Council/Mayor James mob throughout this personal attack on Council member Loar, Steve Paul wants readers to believe that he's been on her side all along! If it looks like, and smells like bullshit, then it's probably bullshit folks. And speaking of bullshit, have citizens of the KCMO metro area noticed that The Kansas City Star, as exemplified by it's Editorial Board, is a putrid waste product deserving of a final flush? Yes, yes they have!
You really need to keep in mind that Steve Paul was an arts reporter before he got the job of editor of the editorial page for the Star, as job that none of the members of the board at that time wanted.
ReplyDeleteThe editorial page, like sadly much of the Star, is written by people with very limited actual reporting experience in the subjects they're confronted with, even less of an expansive view of the world and larger issues, and a point of view that has increasingly become little more than a that of PR flacks for KCMO city hall, the downtown "renaissance", and the Chamber of Commerce.
The comments above are right on the money, but the editorial board's views of the KCI terminal question is but a tiny example of their inadequacies and endlessly slanted view of local issues.
And given the paper's financial condition, it can only get worse.
Tony, you obnoxious little fuck. I happen to know the people that lost their home today, and the "doggie" that died belonged to a little girl who is now devastated AND only has the clothes on her back. And you think it's OH so funny to refer to it as the "golden ghetto". You are an insignificant piece of gutter trash. One of these days you WILL get everything you have coming to you. Fuck off you worthless piece of shit.
ReplyDelete3:58 PM I agree with you. KC can't rely that if we build a top notch airport that it will turn into a natl Hub for an airline.
ReplyDeleteThis is a little sleepy city compared to most KC residents would get stuck with a huge bill for what? An expensive but pretty airport who gives a f**k.
BTW I think Byron is gay.
Byron you lied again about living in a house. Housing authority apartments don't count as a house. Just like you pretend to be a disabled Veteran (what a despicable lie). Go away small man !
ReplyDelete8:49 FTW
ReplyDeleteByron gets his food from The Lords Food Pantry in Clarksburg, WV. He pretends to believe that day.
ReplyDeleteFor someone who expects tolerance in his private life Mr. Paul turns out not to be willing to extend tolerance to those he disagrees with.
ReplyDelete10:41: Tell them to stop feeding the troll.
ReplyDelete7:34 chill out Francis. I live in the Golden Ghetto myself and Tony says it all the time. No big deal sorry to hear of your friends having that issue but Tony meanty no harm by the title. Hell I say Golden Ghetto a lot myself when speaking of the snobs in PV and Mission Hills and well I guess Leawood needs to be thrown in there as well.
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