WHAT HAS YOUR CONGRESSMAN BEEN DOING FOR YOU LATELY?
On Kansas City Week in Review Friday Nick Haines is joined by Kansas City Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, freshman Kansas Congressman Kevin Yoder and new Missouri Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler.
KANSAS CITY WEEK IN REVIEW, Friday @ 7:30 pm on KCPT. Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am.
MAYORAL PRIMARY: Kansas City, MO Mayor Mark Funkhouser loses his bid for re-election. On this week’s program we’re joined by his Chief of Staff, Kendrick Blackwood. Plus, what did we learn from this week’s trip to the ballot box and the two men left in the hunt to be the city’s new leader?
WHAT NEXT FOR FUNK? Mark Funkhouser will still be Mayor for some time yet. His replacement won’t be sworn in until May 2nd. Will he now push through some things that he’s always wanted to do, but felt he couldn’t?
UNION UNREST: Is the massive wave of labor unrest at state capitols in Wisconsin and Indiana now heading here?
PLAZA: Are plans for a controversial office tower on the Country Club Plaza now being scrapped?
JUDGES PAY: Why are Kansas City judges, according to a recent Kansas City Star editorial, “laughing all the way to the bank?”
SCIENCE CITY: More positive news for Union Station as local engineering firm Burns and McDonnell provides a $1 million gift to revamp Science City. It’s the largest investment in Science City since its opening in 1999.
DISSECTING THE NEWS THIS WEEK:
Kendrick Blackwood
Chief of Staff, Mayor Funkhouser
Lynn Horsley,
Kansas City Star
Chris Hernandez
NBC Action News
Dave Helling
Kansas City Star
