Kansas City Streak: Decisions, Money & Wartime Politics

We're already working on the morning update but we don't want to leave late night & early morning denizens without the best toilet reading our cowtown has to offer. 

And so . . . Quickly, we check pop culture, community news and top headlines.

Check TKC news gathering . . .

Decide Fate Of Crossroads

Early voting begins tomorrow

Early voting at the three satellite locations is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays beginning Tuesday, March 19, through Friday, March 29.

Golden Ghetto Investigation

Man found dead Monday night in pond in south Overland Park

One man was found dead Monday night in a pond in south Overland Park after a call to emergency responders.

Commuter College Kindness

Roos Give Back: Spreading Hope One PB&J at a Time

First Gen Roos and UMKC's Alpha Alpha Alpha fraternity gave back Wednesday, Feb. 28 by making over 400 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to hand out to Kansas City's unhoused population. This generous give-back took place in the First Gen Den in Atterbury Student Success Center.

Eastern Jack Debates

Grain Valley voters weigh in on positives, negatives of stadium sales tax proposal

Voters in Grain Valley have mixed opinions on the sales tax question to fund stadium projects for the Chiefs and Royals, which will appear on April 2's ballot.

Booze By Silly Name 

Kansas City Bier Company and Rizoma Liquid Creations release collaboration beer that supports Latinx education

The limited-release beer combines classic German brewing techniques with flavor inspired by Hispanic tradition.

Prez Mocks Predecessor

Biden says at DC dinner that of 2 presidential candidates, 1 was mentally unfit. 'The other's me'

President Joe Biden attended the annual Gridiron Club and Foundation Dinner this weekend, the first time during his presidency

MAGA Out Of Money?!?

Trump is unable to make $464 million bond in civil fraud case, his lawyers tell court | CNN Politics

Former President Donald Trump can't find an insurance company to underwrite his bond to cover the massive judgment against him in the New York attorney general's civil fraud case, his lawyers told a New York appeals court.

SCOTUS Supports Executive Branch

Justice Kavanaugh defends Biden admin

Drawing on his own White House experience, Kavanaugh defended the actions of the Biden administration, saying he didn't see it as "unusual."

Vlad's Plan Exposed?!?

Putin planning buffer zone around border with Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was considering a plan to create a buffer zone between Ukrainian land and Russian border regions and Russian-held territory in Ukraine as the war settles into a long conflict. Putin spoke at a press conference late Sunday after he won election for a fifth term in a landslide election...

Holy Land Battlefield Victory

Israel Gaza: US reports death of senior Hamas military leader Marwan Issa

Details are also released of President Biden's high-stakes call to Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

Caribbean Crisis Cont'd

Machete-wielding militias battle gangs in Port-au-Prince as Haiti's elites vie for power

The wide road that passes in front of Haiti's Toussaint Louverture International Airport has a post-apocalyptic stillness these days. Where cars and crowds of people once massed, only tendrils of smoke rise from smoldering piles of trash, sending a bitter taste into the air.

Buried Treasure Exposed

X-ray shows butt plug stuck inside 'mortified' woman

A UK woman shared her embarrassing sex toy emergency with the world. The mortifying tale resulted in a hospital visit where doctors, after taking an eye-popping X-ray of the "foreign object,&...

Enjoy Cowtown Veggie BBQ

Eat This Now: Portobello Z-Man at Joe's KC

Portobello Z-Man at Joe's KC // Photo by Sarah Sipple As a former vegetarian, now Food Editor, I couldn't let a BBQ-themed issue pass without at least one non-meat option. For a meat alternative that was accessible in multiple areas of KC, and right at home in a carnivore's heaven, it came down to Char Bar's smoked jackfruit Jackknife sandwich...

Keep Warm Tonight

Winter makes one last stand tonight in Kansas City

Winter makes one last stand tonight in Kansas City

And this is the OPEN THREAD for right now.