The latest issue of Kansas City's Northeast News is another MUST READ with a lot of great community insight and El Bryan's latest KICK-ASS comic . . . But this featured editorial stands out because this is the only local publication calling a bluff on City Hall logic.
Here's the money line . . .
"When the cash dump will end. There was a lot of talk last Thursday about connecting the Jazz District with the Crossroads art district that lies a scant four blocks away, if Councilman Quinton Lucas’s math is correct. It should also be noted that the Crossroads district was developed as a destination without the “help” of city cash. Last week’s announcement follows the same old liberal mantra that if you throw enough cash at something, it will eventually get better. We see how well that worked with the status of the Kansas City, Missouri School District in the 1990s . . ."
Read the whole thing.
You decide . . .
It's definitely true that you can't just throw money at a problem. In this particular case, unfortunately, if the Jazz District stays isolated, it probably won't succeed like the Crossroads did. Having highway 71 running between the East Crossroads and the Jazz District doesn't help either. Maybe the solution is to reengineer Highway 71 to allow the traffic on it to exit or turn either direction on 18th street, giving people an option to go immediately to the Jazz District or the East Crossroads instead of driving by/over it. Hard to say.
ReplyDeleteNeed to move jazz district from 18th vine
ReplyDeleteHighway 71 is the least of 18th and Vine's problems.
ReplyDeleteInfighting, poor management, grifting, incompetence, lack of safety, and little to see or do more than once are among the problems and another $27 million will do nothing more than reward the same duds who have caused most of them.
KCMO city government resembles the Oprah Winfrey Show at its heyday of giveaways:
YOU get a new car!
YOU get a new car!
EVERYBODY gets a new car!Just get in line at 12th and Oak. The e-tax has just been renewed for another five years and there's lots of money to give away.
No accountability or results required.
As usual.
One more thing that doesn't work in KCMO anymore, but how would you move it to Johnson County?
ReplyDeleteMove it? Throw more millions at it? We've dumped millions into a hole and there's nothing we can actually see as a result.
ReplyDeleteGive it more money?
No.
Who is paying to keep the lights on at the GEM Theater? Me? I'd like for somebody to list the few number of times that theater has been packed for ANY occasion where white people were made to feel welcomed and safe.
It's become an inside joke now, for U.S. musicians, when talking about KC and the whole idea of making this a geographical center point for the Jazz world.
Know what they say? "There's one club, and it's shitty, pretentious and tiny, and there are stupid rules and no food.....plus, you risk your life just being in that neighborhood. KC must really hate Jazz to put all those fans and musicians at risk like that."
Shut it down. Now. A handful of 'people' will be out of a steady income, but who g.a.f? Spend every penny of those millions on an entirely different thing we can't see - KC sewers....our streets....our drinking water....build more jails.
How many people actually do benefit from the so called "jazz district's" existence?
You could probably fit them all into a stretch limo.
How many people would benefit from working sewers and good streets and/or safe drinking water? All of us.
The cash pits are a mile long. They include but are not limited to:
ReplyDelete1. Green Impact Zone
2. Shops on Swope (grocery store)
3. Aldi at 39th Prospect
4. Linwood Shopping Center (foreclosed and sold back and forth by the same person)
5. East Patrol
6. 18th Vine
7. Beacon Hill
8. All things HEDFC
9. Land Bank
10. Homestead Authority (which is really land bank by a different name)
11. Central High School (Academy for Excellence; ie murder)
12. Full Employment Council (scam with social security numbers)
13. KCNOVA
14. Brothers Keeper
15. Walls without Justice or whatever
16. Black Agenda
17. Freedom Inc.
18. Various Baptist church folk.
19. Urban Summit.
And all of these things have one thing in common. Can you guess what it is?
They are mostly successful and do not impact city finances negatively in any way?
ReplyDeleteNot in the least, jackass.
DeleteExcellent comments.
ReplyDeleteONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS over a 26 year period is equal to over ten grand every freaking day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWHO is spending that money and WHERE are they spending it and on WHAT?
100 MILLION and they continue to not have to show ANY sign of where this money has gone to?
Will it be totally impossible to find the names of these persons? Where can we find those names? These thieves and criminals HAVE TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
There are persons living like kings off this money. Should be easy enough to find them, investigate them and throw them in prison for their crimes against Kansas City. Let's do this.
I've heard that if you get on Ollie Gates or Cleaver's shit list, you're all but finished if you want to do business in the jazz district. So let's start with those two jazz lovers.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the only way KC is going to stay alive is if the city government continues to rob the tax payers to fund shit that a normal healthy economy would have taken care of automatically. Fucking KC is the Katrina mess without the hurricane. Time to close the money valve and let the chips fall.
ReplyDelete"And all of these things have one thing in common. Can you guess what it is?"
ReplyDelete4/27/16, 11:04 AM
Yes. They are excellent reasons not to live, work or spend a friggin' DIME in KCMO.
The Northeast News? Who reads that nigger rag?
ReplyDeleteNortheast news is actually written by racists, gay whites.
ReplyDelete12:58 - I do.
ReplyDeletethe problem isn't the location. the problem is there is little to do in that district after dark. The NLBM and Jazz Museum are great but are a one time deal for most people.
ReplyDeleteAnd it isn't hard to get to- you just zip right down 18th street
so whats the deal with this museum? do they have real lynching pics of blacks or what?
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