AND WE'RE BACK!!!
Just finished watching the French Oscars or whatever . . . It was inspiring and I look forward to all of the porn parody titles that will follow.
Now it's time to catch up with just a few Kansas City mainstream media links we've been noticing . . . Take a look:
- Show-Me Fear In Jeff City: Recent threats cause Missouri lawmakers to question Capitol security
- Really EXCELLENT reporting from Maria Antonia KMBC: Fire Damages Northeast KC Church
- Independence Search: Police Seek 4 In Independence Kidnapping
- A rather NICE column from one of our sports writing faves . . . Joe Posnanski - We won't see a rivalry like this again
- JoCo Inconvenience: Work May Snarl Traffic Near Oak Park Mall
- Spring Blows: Allergy season comes early
- KCK art ask: Arts Center Needs Help After Copper Wires Stolen
- Your Fracking Joke Is Better Than My Fracking Joke: Kansas Senate gives tentative OK to fracking waste
- Country Music Show Called: George Strait Ends KC Show After 2 Songs
- The first cool thing that I still couldn't afford to see at K-PAC: VooDoo Daddy, Symphony bring the swing to Kauffman Center
- Denise Milani is certainly making a comeback as one of my favorite models working today.
The Star ran a story about Mayor Sly's plan to finance his trolley. Seems Sly is living up to his name and trying to pull an end-around. If I owned a business in the downtown loop, my property taxes would be going up by 4 or 5 figures, and I wasn't going to be able to vote on it because I didn't live in the downtown loop, I'd be thinking about challenging it in court.
ReplyDeleteSly's scheme is also going to tax non-profits. There are a lot of non-profits in the arts district. Charlotte St Foundation may be one. Don't know if the Jazz district is included in the loop. These absurdly high tax rates will force some of them to close their doors, and force some businesses to leave or close their doors. It will also stymie downtown redevelopment.
Seems if a redevelopment plan needs to come to a vote, it should be voted on by all Kansas City, not just the affected residents, many of whom rent their property. Also seems any property tax increase should be for all Kansas Citians, not just downtown loop people. After all, any downtown redevelopment of Kansas City affects all of Kansas City. Bannister isn't that far removed from Truman Rd.
If I owned a business for 10 years at say, 18th and Wyandotte, I'd be upset. When I bought the business, nothing was down there, the area was run down. Now you're going to raise my property tax by thousands of dollars, jeopardize my ability to keep my business and all my investment solvent, and you say I don't have the right to vote on it?
The electeds know that proposeing a city-wide tax for such a ridiculous idea would fail, even with a comapaign based on inflated hopes, scare tactics, and outright lies like Glorioso and the gang would put together. So the hope is that the transportation district (TDD) tax law can be used to slip the streetcar funding under the radar. As the above points out, in such a small area, the amount each property owner would have to pay for operations and maintenance would be huge, and even that won't even come close to paying the bills.
ReplyDeleteProjects like this can never be presented in an up-front way, because the cost/benefit ratios aren't even close.
And if you think this is a joke, wait until some real numbers come out (if they ever do) on the Sanders rail plan!
Lots of posturing and parading around with YOUR money.
She looks all greasy.
ReplyDelete....I like that!