Tom Meyer

Rally and Canvass - Fully Fund Buses NOW! · Sunrise Movement ## Rally and Canvass with Kansas City Bus Riders Union + Sunrise Movement KC We know that the voices of bus riders and supporters are the most powerful thing when it comes to advocating for bus fundi...

🎇 Today is the day, Kansas City! Join us, along with @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, to rally for better buses for all of us! 🚌

📍31st & Troost Park and Ride (near Operation Breakthrough)
🕓 4 PM - Rally
🕔 5 PM - Canvass
🕕 6 PM - Celebration and community event

📣 RSVP at bit.ly/kcbrulaunch26

The post-reunion records are pretty good too!

Angels Stadium, while not a concrete donut, doesn't have any stand-out mid-century architectural elements (unless they were all removed during renovations at some point)

...and only the 2nd mid-century design to get it right. Dodgers Stadium and Kauffman are the architectural jewels of an era most known for the multi-sport concrete donuts. I favor downtown baseball for many reasons, but not enough is being said about how great the stadium itself is.

you're using your institutional authority to delete the civil rights of 340 million people and install Trump as a king? okay, the next president, if there is one, is changing the locks on the Court building. those are the rules that you people established

Not to mention the OT fraudsters in the FD.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do

Streetcars need priority.

In 1929 the Kansas City Public Service Company operated 743 streetcars along 318 miles of track. It also operated 76 buses serving 57 miles of bus routes.

My niece is turning 10 this year and is learning guitar, so my wife and I got her a discman and made her mix-CD’s. How’d I do?

No, of course not, and I don’t think it’s responsible journalism to make so much hay out of it. Crime has been going down in KC according to official metrics and this nonsense inflames the viewpoint that city-dwellers are somehow under siege by super criminals. It’s absurd.

That’s awesome, I was doing some of that cross-referencing as I explored the galleries. I’ve always enjoyed digging through the Stars digi-copies and it’s great that we can see the photos in their original glory now.

If you're curious, a similar park was designed by the Eldred/Rocha pair at 30th & Cypress, though, only the stone-in-concrete elements remain intact. This one barely dodged the path of I-70. I'd love to see a return to experimental playgrounds, the out-of-the-box plastic things are so un-inspired!

4/4

Links and photo credits

Photo 1: by Roy Inman
kcstarphotos.org/photo/115009

Photo 2: by Michael A. Mihalevich
kcstarphotos.org/photo/441357

Thanks to @hikatie.bsky.social et al of KC Public Library and @grice1911.bsky.social et al of KC Star for sharing this project!

A young man, in the right of frame, sits on the left-field fence at KC's old municipal stadium with the grandstand and playing field stretched out behind him.

3/4 Second, a young man sits at the recently abandoned Municipal Stadium, looking over his shoulder in quiet reflection. An echo of this photo could be taken in a few years when the TSC is closed.

Foreground: eight boys playing roughly, perhaps american football or soccer. Background a unique park of earthen forms, stacked tree trunks and concrete-cast stone forms.

2/4 First a group of boys playing at a park designed by Cal Eldred and Elpidio Rocha used to exist at 27th & Madison on the Westside. It was demolished to make way for I-35. A print of this photo should be at every Reconnectting the Westside meeting as an example of what was lost and what could be.

1/4 The @kclibrary.bsky.social's new archive of @kansascity.com Star photos is fantastic. Here are two of my favorites that touch on current events in KCMO... (links and photographers in 4/4)

Dang it, Katie, I didn't need another worm-hole to distract me at work. 😂 All the same, thank you! Another awesome archival project from the KCPL team!

Note how they shuffled the baseball business ops guy, Brooks Sherman, into head of real estate. Despite the fact that he's the one that mis-managed the whole "east village or NKC.... actually no, the crossroads, please give us money?" debacle. 2/2

Sherman doesn't know what the fuck he wants because he and his team are really dumb about real-estate. They suffer the same delusion as most rich folks; more money than brains, oblivious to what they don't know. 1/2

Kansas City prepares its housing market for an influx of World Cup fans Kansas City expects 650,000 fans to attend World Cup games next June and July. Many of them will seek short-term rentals, which could temporarily affect the region’s housing market.

I'm quoted on NPR's marketplace on rental market stability during FIFA in #KCMO www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

Kansas City’s transit agency is getting rid of its CEO after years of budget problems and route cuts Frank White III has led the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority since 2022. The KCATA board decided to not renew his contract amid high tensions between the agency and Kansas City, and a looming...

Early Xmas present from the KCATA board!

www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

Shaking my head as I imagine the fight a 6-story apartment building across from St Pauls would have to go through to get built today.

Exclusive: Two pedestrians struck minutes apart in Babylon and Medford; both incidents caught on camera Suffolk County police say a 54-year-old man was making a left turn from Ralph Avenue onto Park Avenue around 8:30 a.m. when he hit a 68-year-old woman in the crosswalk.

Drivers do not care about you. They will murder you or maim you in a crosswalk, and the public will defend their right to do so. The cops will take the driver’s side, you’ll never see justice, and the road will never be redesigned to prevent this.

Remember! There is no victim when you throw a rock at an autonomous vehicle.

My cousin met the Pope. WTF is 2025 even?

The first kid that throws a rock at one of these things is going to get slapped with an assaulting-an-officer charge. They'll give them awards like K-9s.

one thing we need to do as a society is treat all fraud or theft over $100 million or so as a potential capital crime, with the possibility of execution for offenders.

How many leases will go un-renewed so that landlords can make a quick windfall during the World Cup?

I’m really curious to see if negative pressures from the gambling block played a role in this. The bag was so lite, were there also being threatened if they resisted playing along?