Since the controversy over the deer-culling at Shawnee Mission Park is, somehow, still not over, should we add to the mix of craziness a funeral for the hoofed beasts in question? Sure, why not. Now, if only we could get a Canadian to attend and add some melodrama… done!
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Bang The Drum Slowly Today For Local Fallen Cervidae
Posted in Animals, City Government, Controversy, tagged Canada, deer, Funerals, Shawnee Mission Park on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in City Government, Controversy, tagged Funkhouser, Coups on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Details of the palace coup play-by-play are starting to emerge.
Funkhouser, The Nuclear Option, And The Future Of KC
Posted in City Government, Funkhouser, Politics, tagged Interest Group Politics, Kansas City government, Mark Funkhouser, Wayne Cauthen on November 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday’s drive-by-firing of city manager Wayne Cauthen, and the subsequent upholding of his ouster by a band of secretive rebels on the City Council, was the culmination of a multi-year feud between Cauthen and Mayor Mark Funkhouser. It doesn’t quite make our fine metro area a banana republic — but it does reveal everything that’s [...]
Citymanagerus cauthenensis Joins Extinct KC Creatures
Posted in City Government, Controversy, Funkhouser, Politics, tagged Kansas City Politics, KC City Council, Mark Funkhouser, Wayne Cauthen on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
And so the long-running feud between our gaunt mayor and our dyspeptic city manager has come to an end. The City Council voted to uphold Mayor Funkhouser’s suspension of the bespectacled world traveler, and now our long citywide nightmare is — well, probably far from over.
Posted in City Government, tagged Population Wars on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hey, we’re no longer in danger of being eclipsed by Omaha in the population war! Um, yay?
Cauthen Stands Up Hermann At Finance Committee Prom
Posted in City Government, Money, Odd Behavior on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Things in city government appear to be getting rather heated. You may recall that the last time the Finance and Audit Committee — Deb Hermann’s little monetary fiefdom — had a meeting, cosmopolitan jet-setter and frog-like city manager Wayne Cauthen didn’t bother to show, sending his diminutive associate Chuck Eddy instead. Council members were not [...]
Kansas City Takes Page From ‘Matrix,’ Will Use Amazing Bullet Time Technology To Stop Would-be Agent Smiths
Posted in City Government, Justice, KC Crime, Technology on February 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You know Kansas City has a slight crime problem, right? And the problem with high-crime cities is that we all too often don’t know exactly where shots are fired. Sure, you can narrow it down to a two- or three-block radius, but what then? Knock on doors? Do some sleuthing? No, no. Those are the [...]
Hey, Metal Plates Are Gone! That’ll Be $3 Million, Please.
Posted in City Government, Funkhouser, Transportation on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remember how annoying those metal plates were? They lined the streets of KCMO like so many aluminum mesas, jarring you from the placid semi-slumber of the morning commute. Well, no more. Thanks to the quick thinking of city leaders like Mayor Funkhouser, who railed against those “blasted metal plates” (right before he told those durn [...]
Mayor Abandons the Funkcave for More Literary Surroundings
Posted in City Government, Funkhouser, Headlines, Trivial, Uncategorized, tagged Funkhouser, kansas city, library, mayor, Moby-Dick on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear god, man…you have an office. USE IT. “Kansas City Mayor Moves Staff Meetings To Library“
Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser is now holding his weekly staff meetings at the downtown public library instead of his home.
With his wife still banned from working at his city office, Funkhouser told The Kansas City Star that he will [...]
Quantum of Quorum
Posted in Announcements, City Government, Controversy, Fun and games, Funkhouser, Headlines, Odd Behavior, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged chris hernandez, City Council, Dashiell Hammett, Funkhouser, kansas city, kshb, open meeting, vaudeville on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Where does one even begin with the dysfunction in this story? Well, we can start with a headline typo. From KSHB: ”Funkhouser Tries a Different Tacit with Public Meetings” (That would be tactic.)
For years, Kansas City mayors have held a meeting on Tuesdays with the chairmen of the city council committees. Those were held behind closed [...]
