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KC Week in Review
July 27, 2012

GOOGLE breaks its silence and finally provides details about its plans and its prices for its bold ultra-high speed internet experiment in Kansas City. Plus, KC in the national immigration spotlight. Also this week, the consequences of speaking your mind.

THIS WEEK: Friday, July 27, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
(Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am )

GOOGLE: More than a year after picking KC for its big internet experiment, Google finally breaks its silence and announces what many have been waiting for all along…real details about its ultra-high speed fiber plans and the pricetag for getting hooked up.

IMMIGRATION: PBS launches a national documentary series on immigration and Kansas City takes the national spotlight in the broadcast.

PINKEL: The consequences of speaking your mind – A Missouri Lawmaker is condemning Missouri head football coach Gary Pinkel for his comments supporting the late Penn State football icon Joe Paterno. Pinkel calls Paterno a “great man.” Missouri Representative Sara Lampe, who’s running for Lieutenant Governor calls the remarks “indefensible.”

RIFLE RAFFLE: A Missouri House member is now making national news for raffling off an AR-15 assault rifle to help raise money for his re-election campaign. That’s the same style weapon used in the mass movie theater shooting in Colorado last weekend that killed 12 and injured more than 50.

THIS WEEK’S NEWS REVIEWERS:

Stacey Cameron
KCTV5

Mary Sanchez
Kansas City Star

Jack Cashill
Ingrams Magazine

Dave Helling
Kansas City Star

***A NOTE FROM NICK:
Your thoughts are always important to me. Send an e-mail to nhaines@kcpt.org or share and connect at the Nick Haines page on Facebook.
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KC Week in Review
July 6, 2012

<strong>THE ALL-STAR EDITION:</strong> It's the biggest event to hit Kansas City in decades. After months of planning it's finally arrived. Get ready for tens of thousands of out-of-town visitors and lots of national media coverage as the Major League Baseball All-Star Game descends on Kansas City.

THIS WEEK: Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
(Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am )

THE ALL-STAR EDITION: It’s the biggest event to hit Kansas City in decades. After months of planning it’s finally arrived. Get ready for tens of thousands of out-of-town visitors and lots of national media coverage as the Major League Baseball All-Star Game descends on Kansas City.
All-Star activities are expected to attract as many as 150,000 people with events starting tonight going through to Tuesday night’s big game. Even if you’re not a baseball fan you’re certainly going to be touched by this big five-day celebration. City leaders say the game will leave an economic impact of about $60 million on the metropolitan area.
With us to explore its significance, the preparations, what’s involved and who’s picking up the tab are some of those officials most closely involved in making this all work.

Toby Cook
KC Royals, V-P Community Affairs & Publicity

Curt Nelson
KC Royals, Hall of Fame Director

Rick Hughes
KC Convention & Visitors Association, CEO

Cindy Circo
Mayor Pro-Tem, KCMO


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***A NOTE FROM NICK:
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KC WEEK IN REVIEW
July 8, 2011

Funkhouser's new job...The Brownback report card... The Biz Border Battle Continues... And the 5 Big Ideas to Move the Metro Forward....

NEW JOB FOR FUNKHOUSER: Unemployed no more. The former KCMO Mayor lands top job leading think-tank in Washington, DC

BROWNBACK @ 6 MONTHS: This week the Kansas Governor gets a job performance report card. How did he do?

BIZ BORDER BATTLE: Another KCMO business heads for Kansas.

THE BIG 5 IDEAS: The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce is adamant about coming up with a list of five things that they can do to move the metro forwards. They are getting ready to reveal their list. But if you were in charge, what would be on your list?

CHASTAIN IS BACK: The maverick transit activist has collected enough signatures, he says, to place another light rail initiative on the ballot this November

NEWS REVIEWERS:

Mary Sanchez
Kansas City Star

Chris Hernandez
NBC Action News

Jack Cashill
Ingrams Magazine

Dave Helling
Kansas City Star

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KC Week in Review
June 22, 2012

Kansas City Streetcars, Downtown Highrise, KC Cleans Up for All-Star Game, Black Archives Grand Re-opening, JoCo Bus Cuts, and KCI (MCI) Future

THIS WEEK: Friday, June 22, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
(Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am )

Future of Kansas City Streetcars

Downtown Highrise Apartment Complex

Kansas City Cleans Up for the All-Star Game

Black Archives Grand Re-opening

Johnson County Bus Cuts

KCI Future

THIS WEEK’S NEWS REVIEWERS:

Dave Helling – Guest Host
Kansas City Star

Mary Sanchez
Kansas City Star

Lynn Horsley
Kansas City Star

Chris Hernandez
41 Action News

Dana Wright
KMBZ

***A NOTE FROM NICK:
Your thoughts are always important to me. Send an e-mail to nhaines@kcpt.org or share and connect at the Nick Haines page on Facebook.
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KC Week in Review
March 22, 2013

The Mayor's State of the City address makes national news but for all the wrong reasons. Also, this week, the push to expand your child’s school year. And our countdown to local election day begins as we pick apart some of the key issues you'll be deciding.

THIS WEEK: Friday, March 22nd, 2013 @ 7:30 pm
(Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am )

STATE OF CITY: A Mayor’s state of the city address is normally a routine affair. Not so this week in Kansas City for Mayor Sly James. The Mayor makes national news as a man bolts on stage and interrupts his annual address and then is wrestled to the ground by the Mayor’s security detail.

QUESTION #1:THE HEALTH TAX: The countdown to local Election Day begins with a look at the three issues on the citywide ballot in KCMO. Among the decisions voters will be asked to make is whether to approve a renewal of a health tax that assists the medically indigent.

QUESTION #2: CONVENTION TAX CHANGE: Voters are also being asked on April 2nd, whether to tax non-profit conventions in Kansas City. Apparently, unlike every other city in Missouri, Kansas City exempts non-profit conventions from paying the city’s convention tax, costing the city millions of dollars each year.

QUESTION #3: Shall the city be barred from funding, financing or subsidizing facilities involved in the production, assembling or refurbishing of nuclear weapons or their component parts?

EXPANDING THE SCHOOL YEAR: Did you know that Kansas has one of the longest school years in the nation? And that Missouri has one of the shortest school years in the country? That doesn’t sit well with Missouri Governor Jay Nixon who’s pushing a grand plan to extend the school year. KCPT special correspondent Sam Zeff has a closer look.

Expanding the School Year Continued

MEET THIS WEEK’S NEWS REVIEWERS:

Bill Grady
KMBZ Radio

Sam Zeff
KCPT Special Correspondent

Lynn Horsley
Kansas City Star

Dave Helling
Kansas City Star

NEXT WEEK: Wyandotte County Mayor’s Debate
Friday, March 29, 2013 @ 7:30 pm

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KC Week in Review
March 29, 2013

Who should succeed Joe Reardon as Mayor of Wyandotte County? On the eve of Tuesday's election, Nick Haines dumps his regular reporters to bring you Mark Holland and Ann Murguia, the two candidates who say they have what it takes to fill Reardon's shoes.

THIS WEEK: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 7:30 pm
(Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am )

THE NEXT MAYOR OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY
Joe Reardon has been the visible face of Kansas City, KS and Wyandotte County for the better part of the last decade. But now he’s calling it quits. On Tuesday, voters will be asked to decide who they want to see take his place. This week, meet the two candidates who want the job.

Mark Holland
Holland for Mayor

Ann Murguia
Murguia for Mayor

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KC Week in Review
March 30, 2012

The unsettling discovery in a Johnson County recycling dumpster. 35,000 anti-Rush petitions delivered to the Missouri Speaker's office. The Streetcar Business Backlash. Cutting back on Firefighters. Plus, the controversy over King Louie.

THIS WEEK: Friday, March 30th 2012 @ 7:30 pm
(Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am )

ABORTION FILES DUMPED: A Johnson County woman makes a disturbing discovery as she tosses her recyclables inside a yellow and green bin in front of an Overland Park elementary school: More than 1,000 private abortion records scattered on top of newspapers and magazines, containing intimate patient information. We examine the implications.

FIREFIGHTERS: “One of the sickest things I’ve seen in Kansas City politics.” That’s how the Firefighters Union President describes the vote this week by the Kansas City council to cut $7.6 million from the fire department. But will it mean laying off 105 firefighters?

35,000 ANTI-RUSH PETITIONS: Women’s rights groups delivered petitions bearing 35,000 signatures this week to the speaker of the Missouri House opposing his plan to induct Rush Limbaugh into the Hall of Famous Missourians.

KING LOUIE: Controversy in Johnson County over the decision by government leaders to purchase the closed King Louie bowling alley in Overland Park. There are plans to turn it into a national museum on suburban life. Some critics complain that with threats of libraries closing in the county there are better ways of spending $3 million.

STREETCAR BUSINESS BACKLASH: Are plans for a downtown streetcar line in Kansas City, MO facing increasing opposition from the business community? Will they openly campaign against the two-mile transit proposal?

THIS WEEK’S NEWS REVIEWERS:

Stacie Cameron
KCTV5
Jack Cashill
Ingrams Magazine

Mary Sanchez
Kansas City Star

Dave Helling
Kansas City Star


***A NOTE FROM NICK:
Your thoughts are always important to me. Send an e-mail to nhaines@kcpt.org or share and connect at the Nick Haines page on Facebook.
Thanks for watching Kansas City Week in Review.
Nick!

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KC Week in Review
May 10, 2013

The week's top local stories dissected in 29 minutes or less...

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THIS WEEK: Friday, May 10, 2013 @ 7:30 pm
(Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am )
Photo Credit: KansasCity.Com

CLEVELAND ABDUCTION TO KC CLOSET: The Cleveland abduction case in which three women were locked away for a decade before being finally liberated this week brings with it questions about how this can happen, for so long, without anyone noticing? But they happen more often than we care to acknowledge. Just this past week, the files on a 10 year-old Kansas City girl locked in a closet for years are finally released by the state. The files reveal how a whole community including neighbors, school and social service workers missed repeated opportunities to rescue the girl who was forced to live in her own urine and feces. The 10 year-old known as LP weighed just 26 pounds, the size many babies reach at 18 months.

OTTAWA HOMICIDES: Sometimes citizens aren’t willing to take no for an answer and are willing to press forward with their gut feelings. In Ottawa, KS this week, it took the relentless pursuit of friends and not the police to uncover what ultimately turned out to be a triple homicide. This ongoing crime story has brought with it a number of bigger public policy questions including controversy over when law enforcement should trigger an Amber Alert.

MISSOURI PASSES FIRST INCOME TAX REDUCTIONS IN 90 YEARS: Big cuts in corporate and personal income tax rates are sent to the Governor’s desk. Missouri lawmakers also approve a new 50% deduction in business income reported on individual tax returns. The tax cut could reduce state revenue by an estimated $700 million a year. Is the move simply a game of catch-up with Kansas? And will the Governor sign the cuts into law?

SHOULD TEACHERS BE GRADED ON A YEARLY BASIS AND THOSE THAT FAIL BE FIRED? Wealthy St. Louis businessman Rex Sinquefield is actively pushing a statewide measure that would do just that after an effort in the Missouri legislature to impose yearly evaluations on teachers narrowly fails. The bill would have assigned teachers one of four ratings: highly effective, effective, minimally effective or ineffective. At least 33% of the evaluation would be based on the academic achievement and growth of students.

SHOCKINGLY LARGE PROPERTY APPRAISALS DROP INTO MAILBOXES: In Jackson County, some of those home appraisals were 5 times as high as last year’s. The Kansas City Star reported on one resident who saw her 3-bedroom home on the rolls at $48,000 last year be appraised at $229,000 this year. Roughly 70,000 Jackson County residents are getting the new appraisals delivered through their mailboxes this week.

THIS WEEK’S NEWS REVIEWERS:

Stacey Cameron
KCTV5

Mary Sanchez
Kansas City Star

Scott Parks
KMBZ 98.1 FM

Dave Helling
Kansas City Star

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KC Week in Review
May 11, 2012

Why UMKC wants to change its name. Mitt Romney in town. The new high-tech answer to the city's crime problems. AMC being sold to Chinese conglomerate? A tough PR call for the Golden Ox. Plus, trapped in intolerably long lines in Johnson County.

THIS WEEK: Friday, May 11th 2012 @ 7:30 pm
(Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am )

KC CORPORATE ICON TO BE SOLD TO CHINA?: After spending millions to lure AMC from downtown to Kansas is AMC about to be sold to China? A front page story in the Kansas City Star this week reveals that the nation’s second largest theater chain which has been headquartered in Kansas City since 1920 could soon be purchased by a Chinese conglomerate. What does all this mean for Kansas City?
UPDATE TRANSIT: We won’t know until summer what a Jackson County commuter rail plan might look like. And no one has proposed a ballot issue to fund a rail system, much less set a date for an election. Yet according to a front page story in the Star this week, Jackson County government officials are spending half a million dollars on TV ads and an awareness campaign to promote rail transit in the county. How does this square with KC’s plan for a streetcar line? Is there room for both? Are either of them feasible?

UMKC NAME CHANGE: UMKC is considering changing its name to the University of Kansas City. Officials say the name change would help it emerge from the sizable shadow of the Missouri campus in Columbia. The school has used its current name since it joined the four-campus University of Missouri system nearly 50 years ago.


ROMNEY IN KC: Mitt Romney was in town Thursday. The presumptive Republican nominee for President did not appear though in public – his visit was totally private. No public rallies and big speeches – why?


SHOT SPOTTER TECHNOLOGY COMES TO KC: It’s a high-tech anti-crime system that uses sensors to spot gunshots and let’s police know almost exactly where those bullets were fired. Kansas City officials have been talking about the system for years, but they’ve finally got the money to install the equipment. So how is this supposed to work and will it really reduce violent crime in Kansas City?


TOUGH PR CALL FOR GOLDEN OX: As Bottomline Communications reports this week, sometimes public relations decisions can be complicated. You make the call on this one. You are the PR person for the Golden Ox, one of Kansas City’s landmark restaurants and a downtown fixture since 1949. Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, says it wants to come in and substitute your world-famous steaks for theirs and film customers’ reactions. On the one hand, your restaurant will be featured in ads across the country. It will certainly increase your restaurant’s exposure. On the other hand, you know that only those customers who rave about the Walmart steaks will be included in the commercials. What would you do? WATCH THE AD


LONG LINES AT DMV: Why should it take 8 hours to wait in line this week to renew your license plates or register your vehicles in Johnson County?

THIS WEEK’S NEWS REVIEWERS:

Kevin Collison
Kansas City Star

Chris Hernandez
41 Action News

Stacey Cameron
KCTV5

Dave Helling
Kansas City Star


***A NOTE FROM NICK:
Your thoughts are always important to me. Send an e-mail to nhaines@kcpt.org or share and connect at the Nick Haines page on Facebook.
Thanks for watching Kansas City Week in Review.
Nick!

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KC Week in Review
May 18, 2011

Lavish spending & salaries of union leaders exposed in KC Star investigation. Why there's talk of an "impending bloodbath" in Topeka & the state "going to hell in a handbasket." What you need to know in the waning hours of the Kansas legislative session. Plus, Rush inducted in secret ceremony.

THIS WEEK: Friday, May 18th 2012 @ 7:30 pm
(Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am )

END OF KANSAS AS WE KNOW IT?: “Sending the state to hell in a hand basket…an impending bloodbath…a nuclear explosion that will leave no part of the state immune from the radioactivity of the blast……ending Kansas as we know it.” Some of the phrases thrown around in the last week to describe the actions of Kansas lawmakers who sent to the Governor’s desk a $3.7 billion tax cut bill which its proponents argue will help grow the Kansas economy and spur growth. So why such apocalyptic, doomsday language being tossed around?

SECRET CEREMONY FOR LIMBUAGH: in a locked chamber guarded by Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers, House Speaker Steve Tilley this week inducts Rush Limbaugh into the Hall of Famous Missourians during an invitation-only ceremony. Democrats were excluded from the unveiling of the bust of the 61- year-old Cape Girardeau native. The ceremony, a departure from the open events held at almost every other induction, took place with GOP staff members using Democratic seats and empty spectator galleries. Media were notified fewer than 30 minutes in advance. Why all the secrecy?


VOTING ON JUDGES: For more than 70 years, Missouri has selected most of its judges using a process that has become a model for the nation. This fall, voters will get the opportunity to change it. The Missouri House has just narrowly passed a proposed constitutional amendment that, if approved by voters this November, would give the governor more control over the selection of judges for the state Supreme Court and state Court of Appeals.


LAND BANK BILL PASSES: It’s being viewed as “game changing” legislation for Kansas City. One of the biggest accomplishments of this year’s legislative session in Missouri. It’s front page news. But why is it important?

UNION EXPOSED: Lavish spending and salaries at a KCK based union are exposed in a Kansas City Star investigation this week. We pick apart the story.


THIS WEEK’S NEWS REVIEWERS:

Mary Sanchez
Kansas City Star

Steve Kraske
The Star/KCUR

Stacey Cameron
KCTV5

Dave Helling
Kansas City Star


***A NOTE FROM NICK:
Your thoughts are always important to me. Send an e-mail to nhaines@kcpt.org or share and connect at the Nick Haines page on Facebook.
Thanks for watching Kansas City Week in Review.
Nick!

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