Kansas City Star Airport Eco-Devo Journalism (lulz) Argues Against Pro-Police PAC

Like it or not . . . The Northland is the future of Kansas City's growth right now. 

And so . . . A story about development and politics is sold to newspaper readers as a treatise regarding incentives.

However . . .

Our TKC blog community covered this far more succinctly last week.   

Today the newspaper provides some good detail but here are the basics of the story that they they save until the last few graphs in a report that's FAR TOO LONG . . .

INSIDERS BELIEVE MAYOR & COUNCIL OPPOSITION AGAINST THIS PROJECT IS ALL ABOUT SILLY SEASON POLITICKING!!!

Again . . . We blogged as much a week ago . . . The Star invested far too many words attempting to play nice around a very uncomfortable fact of life. 

Here's the basics of today's report . . .

Legislation introduced by three Northland Council members would direct City Manager Brian Platt to come up with a plan to fund and construct two new traffic circles off of Interstate 29 to help the new development about a mile from Kansas City International Airport.

Pat Klein, the city’s aviation director who retires at the end of the month, warned the council about spending city funds to aid the private parking operation.

“I am concerned with the City funding developer’s responsibilities,” he wrote in an email to council members. “It is a precedent that should be looked at extremely closely.”

Again . . . 

THIS IS JUST POLITICS . . . REMEMBER THAT THE DEVELOPER IS ALSO FUNDING "NORTHLAND STRONG" AND HELPING PO-PO CHALLENGE MAYOR Q IN UPCOMING COUNCIL ELECTIONS!!!

 Again . . .

Elections have consequences and it looks like we'll have to see if Mayor Q and his council majority can continue to flex on local investors and police funding after June 20th.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link that pretty much backs up our premise but with more flowery language, better grammar and fewer typos . . .

Kansas City may spend millions to help private airport parking firm compete with city

The Kansas City Council may spend millions of taxpayer dollars to aid the development of a private airport parking firm that will ultimately compete with the city's own parking services.

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