Local company Sprint-Nextel-PCS-Global-Wireless-Telephonium has not been known in recent years as much of a winner. It loses subscribers every quarter, releases underwhelming smartphones that can’t compete with the iPhone, and has those terrible, chaotic commercials where people break out of bubbles and stuff. But now, when presented with a chance to win something, Sprint fails [...]
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Poor, Sad Sprint Can’t Even Win Loss-Based Contest
Posted in Local Business, Sprint, tagged AOL, Bad Decisions, Contests, Nextel, Sprint, Time Warner, Worst Mergers on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hundreds Of Area Girls Storm Oak Park Mall, Demand Right To Grossly Overpay For Large Pieces Of Plastic
Posted in Economics, Local Business, tagged American Girl, No Recession In The Doll Market Apparently, Oak Park Mall on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oak Park Mall, that once-thriving commercial hub out on 95th St., was the unlucky host yesterday of a rampaging horde of preteen girls — a capitalistic Attica that threatened to disrupt business and overwhelm the elderly mall-walkers who call OPM their gym. What were the demands of these iCarly-loving roustabouts? Simple: they insist that you [...]
Olathean Charged With Transparent Lying, Prostitution
Posted in Advertising, Craigslist, Justice, Local Business, Romance, tagged Kinda-Sorta Prostitution, Massage, Olathe, Online Ads on December 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Remember when you were a kid, and you were convinced that if you told a lie hard enough and stuck with it determinedly enough, people would just believe you? Such is the case today for one woman in Olathe (!) — that hotbed of neo-evangelism — who was busted by police for engaging in the [...]
SOTL Field Trip: A Night At The Missouri Mavericks Truman Jersey Night; Or, Unavoidably, ‘The Puck Stops Here.’
Posted in Field Trips, Local Business, Sports, tagged Hockey, Independence Events Center, Independence MO, Missouri Mavericks, New Teams, SOTL Field Trips on November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the interest of broadening our horizons and gazing upon the new Independence Events Center in all its exurban glory, the State of the Line staff ventured yesternight to an ice-based contest between the Tulsa Oilers and the Missouri Mavericks. It was “Harry Truman Jersey Night,” which meant the local skating gladiators wore garish, stars-and-stripes-bedecked [...]
Posted in Local Business, tagged Independence MO on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Huh. Turns out Independence produces something other than meth.
Kansas City About To Get A Whole Lot Fatter
Posted in Food, Local Business, tagged Dunkin' Donuts, Early Onset Diabetes, Obesity on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s face it: as a city, we’re not exactly known for our slim and trim physique. The barbecue, the lack of walking, the abundance of mega-retailers specializing in roomy clothing… it all adds up to high cholesterol. But now we can add a thin layer of glaze to that saucy residue coating many residents’ fingers.
Posted in Local Business, tagged McDonald's, Noodle Places on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The McDonald’s on the Plaza has finally closed, just in time for the grossly overrated Noodles & Co. to come in. But now where will all the tourists take bathroom breaks?
Posted in Local Business, Sprint, tagged Dan Hesse, layoffs, Sprint on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not going to be a very cheery holiday season for employees of local company SprintNextelWirelessPCSGlobalTelephonium. Too bad Dan Hesse is always prowling around New York in that overcoat.
Kansas City Declares Self Heart Attack Capital Of World
Posted in Comedy, Food, Local Business, Local Journalism on January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Star, reduced these days to scanning other newspapers for ideas, follows up on a story that ran yesterday in the Times profiling two local BBQ-ers and their meaty, disgusting creation: the Bacon Explosion. Apparently these two local gourmands didn’t think that Italian sausage and bacon were providing enough cholesterol individually — so why not [...]
Eight Thousand Sprint Workers Will Fight No More Forever
Posted in Local Business, Sprint on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sad — but totally unsurprising — news today from local wireless company SprintNextelPCSGlobal Telephonium. The OP-based company, in an effort to save much-needed cash and make itself more streamlined for the fight against companies that do things right, is handing out pink slips to 8,000 workers. There’s no way around it: this is a blow [...]
