An indictment of the Mayor, his wife and the City Council

Kansas City is up to 26 homicides for the year at present--11 of them in KCMO.

That's bad enough but the latest victim "was gunned down in front of her three children -- an 8- and 9-year-old were getting on a school bus and a child said to be between 1 and 2-years-old was standing in the doorway of the home -- after a brief struggle in her driveway around 8:30 a.m."

The murder itself is horrible.

The other shootings and murders in town that have led up to this one are equally awful and unacceptable.

And it's still February.

If we do not/cannot get a handle on the killings and shootings in Kansas City before the warmer weather starts, they will likely escalate wildly.

What are Mayor Funkhouser and his wife Gloria Squitiro doing to change this?

I think nothing.

What is the City of Kansas City City Council doing or proposing to reduce the killings?

Again, I think nothing.

The Mayor said he wants to do away with the e-tax.

The Council wants to pass a fatcat developer's dream of building hundreds of homes North of the city--25 miles from the core--but on this? Silence. Utter silence.

My entry today is an indictment of this Mayor Funkhouser, his wife Gloria Squitiro (because she insists on being involved) and the entire City Council of Kansas City, Missouri.

The murder rate in Kansas City should be all these people's highest priority but they are doing nothing. They are ignoring the most serious and possibly disintegrating situation for and in the city.

We should stand for this no longer.

We must demand action from them, at minimum.