Hat tip: Not Ready For Prime BUZZ

Let’s face it folks, the Funk has got to go. Kansas City needs to open the discussion. We need a city that works, and it’s obvious that Funkhouser isn’t the solution.
We’re not working for any candidate or group. We’re just citizens like you, who have had enough. Our city’s […]

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Records show that the city manager makes frequent and pricey trips at taxpayer expense.
By Eric Barton
Kansas City, Missouri, City Manager Wayne Cauthen has a reputation around City Hall as being a guy who isn’t at his desk much. The reason for that is found in his travel expenses, which detail his trips around the country […]

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By Joe Robertson
The Kansas City Star
The leaders of several black organizations want Kansas City Superintendent Anthony Amato placed on administrative leave pending investigation of a complaint that he called two school board members “bitches.”
And if the allegations by a former high-level staff member are true, they want Amato fired.
“He has forfeited the privilege to […]

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If your campaign committee treasurer has quit because they were under fire for reimbursements to your city employee wife, (cell phones, Chiefs tickets etc.) why in the world would you “temporarily” name your wife as the new treasurer of the committee?
It is amazing to us that a man who claimed to have “the ability to […]

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From Camp:
LGBT Town Hall Meeting with Mayor Mark Funkhouser.
11/7/2007 6:30 pm-7:30 pm
Here’s your chance to meet the mayor and ask questions in this first town hall meeting for the LGBT community. Event brought to you by Four Freedoms Democratic Club, UMKC LGBT Office and The Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Greater Kansas City.
Administrative Center […]

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The Pitch:
By David Martin
A few weeks ago, Kansas City, Missouri’s City Council let a piddly $36,000 contract with an engineering company bloat all the way up to $22 million. (You read that right: three additional zeroes.) That same day, the council held up a nonprofit group’s measly $125,000 funding request.
Care to guess which deal […]

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