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 [...]
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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 »
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.
Mayor Funkhouser Kindly Asks City Manager Cauthen To Get The Hell Out Of The Building
Posted in Funkhouser, Local blogs, Politics, tagged Firings, Mark Funkhouser, Wayne Cauthen on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Happy Thursday, Wayne Cauthen! Don’t you just love the sunshine? And hey, how about Zack getting the Cy? Great, huh? Hey, can you do me a favor? Think you can get the f out of City Hall by the end of the day? Kthxbye! Love, Mark. Um.
Mayoral Candidate, Stand-Up Comedian Mike Burke Plays Crazy Nautical Metaphor Game At Campaign Kickoff Event
Posted in Awesomeness, Funkhouser, Politics, Transportation, tagged Elections, Funkhouser, KC Mayor, Mike Burke on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ahoy, Kansas Citians! What Nor’easter has blown ye in from the high seas? Are you looking for a steady hand to guide this Pequod of a city back to safe harbor? Why not put your trust in Mike Burke, who’ll assure safe passage for you landlubbers? Batten that hatch and mizzen that mast, metaphor-lovers: Mike [...]
State Of The Line Farewell Tour: Mayor Funkquitiro
Posted in Farewell Tour, Funkhouser on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ed. note: to celebrate our final week, we’re taking a look back at some of our most frequently covered topics.
We’ve never covered the trials and tribulations of Mayor Mark Funkhouser and first lady/pseudo-co-mayor Gloria Squitiro as well as our friend Tony, who tracks the mayor’s increasingly bizarre behavior with admirable tenacity. But we’ve had our [...]
Kansans: UFOs? Sure. Evolution? Not So Much.
Posted in Animals, Comedy, Funkhouser, Headlines, Odd Behavior, Trivial, Uncategorized, tagged Bigfoot, Funkhouser, Kansas, sasquatch, UFO, UFO Digest, Wichita on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We come for your sunflowers, Earthlings! “Wichita UFO report draws wide attention“
The man who captured the image said he took the photo at 8:42 a.m. Friday near 210th and Prairie Creek Road, about three miles south of Rose Hill.
He described what he saw: “The object came out of the clouds really fast. It sounded kind [...]
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 [...]
