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Kansas City Week in Review

Outgoing KCMO Mayor Mark Funkhouser joins host Nick Haines. As he prepares to leave office, Funkhouser discusses the joys and disappointments of leading the city and discloses his future plans...


THIS WEEK: Friday April 22nd 2011 @ 7:30 pm
(Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am)

NEWSMAKER GUEST: Mayor Mark Funkhouser

He’s packing up the boxes! With one week left to go, outgoing KCMO Mayor Mark Funkhouser joins host Nick Haines as he dissects the joys and disappointments of leading the metro’s largest city. On May 1st, Funkhouser will hand over the title of mayor to Sly James. What will he do next?

PLUS… we pick apart the rest of the week’s local and regional news stories with NBC Action News political reporter Chris Hernandez and the Star’s Chief politcal correspondent Steve Kraske, the host of Up to Date on KCUR-FM.

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Ruckus: April 22, 2011

  TOPIC 1: PICK A PICNIC! Mayor-elect James has decided to mark his inauguration with a picnic. Previous administrations have held more formal events. Also, the incoming council and mayor...

 

TOPIC 1: PICK A PICNIC!
Mayor-elect James has decided to mark his inauguration with a picnic. Previous administrations have held more formal events. Also, the incoming council and mayor have met and pledged to work together cooperatively.

TOPIC 2: STOP GROWING!
One of Yael’s recent columns deals with the negative side of so-called “urban sprawl.”

TOPIC 3: DOUBT ABOUT CLOUT.
Steve Rose contends that Johnson County would be far more effective in the State Legislature if its delegation were more united.

TOPIC 4: THE PLAZA (POLICE) PLAN.
Police Chief Corwin says his department is much better prepared this year to deal with mass gatherings of young people loitering and sometimes causing problems on the Plaza.
Corwin notes it’s not the police department’s job to provide activities for youth or to teach parents how to do a better job.

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KCPT Offers Help With Your GED and Workplace Essential Skills

The KCPT Learning Center offers free resources to help people meet career and financial goals.

KCPT's Learning Center provides the resources for students seeking their GEDKCPT’s Learning Center provides the resources for young adults seeking their GED. View the GED Connection videos to study for your GED and use Workplace Essential Skills to help you find a new job, train for a better job, or be more successful on the job you already have.

The lessons are written at a pre-GED level and will help build critical thinking and problem solving skills. while preparing for the GED tests.

Life Skills for Financial Fitness will be added to this area very soon. Like skills for physical fitness, financial fitness requires a sharp focus on the final goal and knowing what we would like to accomplish. It requires us to crunch the numbers, focus the energy, and keep the course if we are to stay healthy in a financial sense.

Come back soon and check out the new series and get the help needed to manage your money.

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KCWIR Friday, April 15, 2011

Why the head of Sprint and Hallmark are calling for a border war ceasefire...Overturned: The Puppy Mill Law... from the airplane saga to the hotel drama....why Missouri is going nuclear...and is there a meltdown at the Kansas Bioscience Authority?

THIS WEEK: Friday, April 15 @ 7:30 pm
(Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am)

BORDER CEASEFIRE: Why the head of Sprint and the head of Hallmark are calling for a moratorium on cross border tax incentives.  An elite group of corporate CEO’s send a letter to the governor’s of Kansas and Missouri demanding a truce. But how do they respond?

PROP B: Missouri lawmakers overturn the new puppy mill law. Does your vote not count?

TRAVEL SAGA CONTINUES: How the area plane saga has now turned into a hotel saga

ABORTION: Kansas makes national news as it becomes the second state in the country to adopt a fetal pain law

NUCLEAR: Devastation in Japan has brought heightened concerns about the safety of nuclear power plants. So why is Missouri so gung-ho about building a second nuclear power plant?

KANSAS BIOSCIENCE AUTHORITY: A criminal probe is launched into the Olathe based agency set-up by the state to bring bioscience jobs to the area. Now its CEO has resigned amid accusations of mismanagement and wasteful spending

THIS WEEK’S NEWS REVIEWERS:

Micheal Mahoney
KMBC 9 News

Jack Cashill
Ingrams Magazine

Dave Helling
Kansas City Star

Fred Logan
Business Journal Columnist

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