Man About Town KC

Anthropic's Claude overtakes ChatGPT in App Store as users boycott over OpenAI's $200 million Pentagon contract | Fortune Protest campaigns across Reddit and X may have helped drive users away from OpenAI.

Anthropic’s Claude climbed to the No. 1 spot on Apple’s App Store, dethroning ChatGPT just days after OpenAI announced they company had supplanted Anthropic by striking a deal with the U.S. Department of War. https://bit.ly/4aJA0Ui

Did Jack the Ripper Once Call St. Louis Home? Francis Tumblety: The Strange Story of a Strange Man

If you have St. Louis connections or just appreciate urban culture and history, check out the Unseen St. Louis Substack.

This edition I found fascinating—St. Louis-related or not.

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If only Alamo wasn’t a bunch of dicks.

Just ONE of the F-15 jets that were destroyed in Kuwait cost the same amount as the entire KC Streetcar downtown starter line project.

Streetcars, rails, construction jobs, maintenance facility, wires... all of it.

Don't let them tell you we can't afford high quality modern transit.

"Thirty EB-5 investors haven't received $500,000 repayments from MFH Properties...."

"Investors in MFH Properties include Mariner Holdings CEO Marty Bicknell and Platform Ventures founders Ryan and Terry Anderson."

It’s amazing how not a single journalist will ask him to name the 8 wars he had stopped.

For the $99 deal, that is. TIA.

Is there a broadcast schedule somewhere?

FACT FOCUS: A look at Trump's false and misleading claims ahead of the State of the Union President Donald Trump is delivering the first State of the Union address of his second term. Priorities for the Republican’s administration have centered largely on the economy, immigration, crime, e...

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Email to USA Hockey

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

“As Karen got to know the guards at the … ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. ‘Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,’ Karen says.”

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

I helped produce marketing videos for this building shortly after the Fed moved. I don’t remember the developer/client then.

It’s a shame this building can’t attract a developer with real know-how and sufficient resources.

Maybe a company not going through bankruptcies like the current one.

I’ve never been certain of what to do at this turn.

Reset Kansas City’s future. Build a new Royals stadium at Truman and Troost | Opinion — The Kansas City Star What better place to honor our rich baseball history while also breaking a major socioeconomic barrier? | Opinion

This is the answer.

Connecting Crossroads and 18th & Vine. Downtown location. Highway access. History. Development potential. Existing restaurants, bars, and entertainment. Transit, including streetcar. Gates, Arthur Bryant’s, just like old times.

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Will be cool when all the Epstein pedofiles hiding in America can no longer travel for fear for being arrested.

Prairie Village developer linked to sale of Texas warehouses for ICE detention facility Flint Development has reportedly sold warehouse property near El Paso, Texas, to build an 8,500-bed immigration detention center. The company currently has several properties in the Kansas City metro.

Flint Development has reportedly sold warehouse property near El Paso, Texas, to build an 8,500-bed immigration detention center. The company currently has several properties in the Kansas City metro. (@johnsoncountypost.bsky.social)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert averages roughly 2.4 million–2.7 million total viewers per night. The interview with James Talarico that the FCC (Trump) and cowardly CBS tried to suppress has more than 5 million views and counting.

“Yada yada yada, blah blah blah.”
—John Sherman

Wow.

The entire city budget for Lee's Summit, a city with ~107,000 people, is $379m, with $30m budgeted for law enforcement. About 8% of the overall total.

Kansas City MO, a city with ~520,000 people, has $734m dedicated to public safety. About 29% of the entire city budget.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

I never would have seen this if the FCC and CBS hadn't tried to suppress it. Trump fears Texas could turn blue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air interview out of fear of FCC Colbert kicked off Monday's episode of "The Late Show" by saying that the network's lawyers told him he could not have Texas state Rep. James Talarico on the broadcast.

CBS is Trump TV. Less than two months after CBS News suddenly pulled a report on the regime’s prison camps, CBS lawyers told Stephen Colbert that he couldn’t air an interview with a Texas Democratic candidate.

This is what complicity looks like.

pretty stunning chart

KC leaders mull what's next for Truman Sports Complex after Chiefs, Royals leave - Kansas City Business Journal With the Chiefs and Royals decamping from Truman Sports Complex, officials must decide whether to go for it ... or data centers.

“…one builder recalled that a $250 million entertainment district with sports museums, hotels and a gondola fizzled in the mid-2000s because the Chiefs did not want to give up parking and associated revenue.”

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KCK thought Chiefs deal meant critical funding for bridge repairs. That may not happen — The Kansas City Star A Kansas House committee advanced a budget proposal that would reallocate funds earmarked for metro-area projects to rural Kansas counties.

The only sure thing in Kansas is that Clark Hunt will get his.

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Is the Northeast News full of Trumpers?

Even two is too many.

YouTube video by Guardian Football Netherlands fans dance in the streets of Hamburg ahead of first Euro 2024 match

Will we see this in the streets of KC when the Netherlands arrives this summer?

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A few thoughts on the resignation of former Kansas City Police Officer Blayne Newton, a former cop who fatally shot three people, injured another with gunfire and brutalized two women while in uniform. I will share more thoughts in an upcoming column for The Kansas City Star... #staytuned

Kansas City police officer who killed 3 people has resigned, but will get a $50,000 payout Officer Blayne Newton fatally shot three people and injured others over the course of his career with the Kansas City Police Department. KCPD called it an “agreed departure.”

BREAKING: Officer Blayne Newton fatally shot three people and injured others over the course of his career with the Kansas City Police Department. KCPD called it an “agreed departure.”

Ukrainians rally in support of Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych, banned for his helmet Ukrainians are uniting in solidarity with Olympic skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified for wearing a helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's invasion.

Ukrainians are uniting in solidarity with Olympic skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified for wearing a helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's invasion. n.pr/4rqEdSs