Showing posts with label KCTV 5 News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KCTV 5 News. Show all posts
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Hoping All Kansans Watch This Video
There is a young man, one Davis Hammet, who moved to, of all places, Kansas, from Florida. He's a bit of an activist and by "a bit", I mean a full-on, nearly fire breathing activist, at that.
He started a group on Facebook called "Loud Light." He's doing fantastic work, following the Kansas State legislators and what, exactly they do and what they work on.
He's pretty incredible. I've written about him out here before.
And the thing is, all he's doing is educating Kansans.
He's not doing threatening protests or, God forbid, threatening anyone, nothing like that. He's simply trying to make his now fellow Kansans aware of what's going on in Topeka at the Capitol.
He makes videos detailing the week by week work at the Capitol then puts it on YouTube and again, Facebook. I've personally followed him to learn what's going on there and then, this week, he released a really excellent piece on the overall Kansas State budget, what's been going on with it at least through the Brownback years and what's taking place now. It's excellent. You'll find it here.
I've said before, Missouri and each and every state, really, needs someone doing this very work. Heck, I live in Missouri and I'm following this guy. It's very simple, complete, excellent, informative work about what state legislators are doing in their state capitol. The local evening news isn't this informative, helpful or downright important. He puts local news reporters to shame, honestly and literally. (Hear that, Fox4? WDAF? KCTV5? KCPT? KCUR? Kansas City Star?).
It is, as I wrote in the title, my hope that all or at least nearly all adult, voting age Kansans watch this video. They all need to know what has taken place, what's happening now and where that puts them and their state's budget.
Link:
Loud Light
Friday, June 1, 2018
A Challenge to the Churches and Media to Stop Being "Politically Correct"
So now this President, Trump came out and said we should have a nationwide ban on German luxury automobiles.
What is this guy smoking?
Can you even imagine this?
Banning the entire nation of their BMWs, Mercedes Benz and Audi automobiles, at least?
What would his big, wealthy donors drive?
Lincoln Continentals?
Please. Who are we kidding?
But here's where the "political correctness" comes in.
Why aren't we seeing and hearing reporters, especially from local TV stations, going out to the local German luxury auto dealers and asking them what they think of this idea?
Why don't we see and get that?
I'll tell you why.
We don't see that because the local TV stations and newspapers and media outlets don't want to alienate any advertisers or readers.
Dime to a doughnut says those owners and even, likely, the managers of those luxury car dealers are high paid Republicans or at least Right Wingers. The last thing they want to do is get on the airwaves, TV, radio or get quoted in the newspaper with their picture, saying it's the outrageously stupid idea it is. God forbid they tell the truth and push away some Trump follower who was just about to plop down $58,000 or more on a brand new, shiny, 4 wheel automobile from Stuttgart.
And it's the same way with the churches.
When was the last time you heard a huge outcry from any church or from any pulpit when some government representative or government agency comes out and announces cuts in programs for the poor?
The answer, of course, is either never or long, long ago.
Once again, those ministers and priests up there giving sermons don't want to run the risk of alienating some Right Winger or Republican in the pew. God forbid they not make their weekly contribution to the plate he's about to pass around, pun heavily intended.
Political party wants to give yet more tax cuts to the already-wealthy and corporations, thus driving up the national debt, drastically, while they push for cuts to even Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid?
Sure! No problem! You won't hear a word from any "man of God."
Who's that Jesus guy?
Wha'd he say? What was he about?
So local news outlets? KMBC? KCTV5? WDAF?
What say you?
Do you have any guts?
Will you stop reporting on the latest kitty cat videos on Youtube on our evening news and instead, go out to Aristocrat Motors on I-35 or some such and ask the owner there what he thinks of this President and his brilliant idea?
Please?
We dare you.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
March For Our Lives Kansas City Big Success and the Media Coverage It Created
The March For Our Lives event here in Kansas City was a big, big success yesterday. It was exciting and gratifying and really wonderful how many came out and the success of it all.
The Star has a fantastic, brief video of the March For Our Lives Kansas City rally/march that took place yesterday on their site.
March for Our Lives protest in KC
draws thousands
They gave the event some quite good coverage, thankfully. Here's more.
Slain Brookside attorney's widow speaks
at March for Our Lives
Local TV media also gave great coverage.
Not just the Kansas City march alone, either.
Good to great regional and national coverage, too.
There's lots more from the event, pictures, etc., here, too.
It was a terrific day and event.
Now, we go forward.
Friday, March 31, 2017
Kansas City: "NO BLUE SKIES FOR YOU!"
Gray.
Gray as far as you can see.
Gray above. Gray yesterday, gray tomorrow, gray the day after that and the next week.
Sure, we've needed the rain and it's welcome, certainly. We all recognize that. And we have to have it.
But occasionally, can't we have some direct sunlight?
Some blue skies?
Please?
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Kansas City's Secret Santa Gets Great Exposure Today
Kansas City's Secret Santa got some fantastic national coverage this morning. He was on KCTV-5 and CBS Sunday Morning just a bit ago. You can find the video here, below.
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Friday, September 18, 2015
Happy National Cheeseburger Day!
Yes, indeed, Happy National Cheeseburger Day!
How will you celebrate?
Here are some ideas!
Where to celebrate National Cheeseburger
Day in KC
Go! Enjoy!
And have a great weekend!
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Kansas heads will be 'asplodin' today
First this:
And then tonight, some Republicans losing, and big time?
Sunday, September 7, 2014
One More Reason for a New, Single-Terminal Airport
Yessir, here we are. Yet one more reason for a new, single terminal airport at KCI, tearing down and walking away from our existing terminals:
FLASH MOBS!
Think about it!
As it stands now, with those pesky, ultra-convenient, already-built terminals we have and enjoy, with a gleaming, shiny, new single terminal, the airport authority could hire people like this and film a "spontaneous" dancing, flash mob. And if you're lucky enough to be there, you'll get to see and enjoy it.
Worst case scenario? You'll get to watch it, after the fact, on KMBC-TV and KCTV-5 "news", along with the daily YouTube catch-up and cat and dog video segments.
It'll go viral and JUST THINK OF ALL THE GREAT MEDIA ATTENTION KANSAS CITY AND KCI WILL GET.
Sure, it'll cost us millions and it's stupid to tear down good, working, again, convenient, existing buildings--that we actually enjoy and appreciate--and it's horrible for the environment, what with throwing two entire terminals in a dump somewhere and the airlines don't want or recommend it and, oh, sure, our price per ticket of flying in and out of that new airport will go WAY up, as other cities that have done this have learned, to their shame, expense and frustration but...
WE'LL HAVE FLASH MOBS!!
AND A SHINY NEW AIRPORT!
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
An open letter to Mayor James, on the airport
An open letter to Mayor James today on news that he's setting up a committee to examine what should happen to and at and with the airport:
Mayor James,
I hope and trust you will put someone on your airport task force that isn't necessarily gung-ho on a single terminal.
I hope you would put on, perhaps, an architect, who could and would explore the environmental and innovative new technologies that would update the three terminals we have, solve any problems at the airport and give us, still, the updated, revitalized facility there we want and some are calling for, without throwing away any existing building or buildings and instead, spending $1.2 billion for a new one.
Here's hoping.
Thank you,
Mo Rage
Friday, May 3, 2013
Happy 81st birthday, Alvin Brooks!
And thank you for all you've done for Kansas City and Kansas Citians, all these years.
Links: Happy Birthday Mr. Alvin Brooks - NBCActionNews.com - KSHB-TV
Ad Hoc Group Against Crime
Thursday, April 4, 2013
The outrage that is one new airport terminal
Well, here it is.
The airport authority finally made something of their behind-the-scenes plans public today, as most of us know:
Besides the fact that I'm patently, strongly, nearly vehemently against this whole debacle boondoggle ripoff plan, here are a few notes:
First--it's going to cost us--you and I, the people of Kansas City and region who use this thing--$1,200,000,000.
That's 1.2 billion dollars.
Sure, we already have an international airport and we like it fine and it works and everything, in fact, it's very convenient, but no, the Kansas City Airport Authority has a jones for a new airport, a new group of buildings.
And do you know why?
They want to walk away from our existing airport because THE AIRLINES DON'T LIKE THE EXISTING LAYOUT.
With three different terminals, there is the requirement for far more security personnel and checkpoints. They want to cut their costs. This way, if they get a new single terminal airport, they cut their costs. Of course it's easy for the airlines to request--if not demand--this new terminal because hey, you and I, THE PEOPLE END UP PAYING FOR IT. Not the airlines.
Second note--Check this out from the official release today:
"Going forward, the three terminals at KCI do not make sense financially or environmentally..."
Can you believe they would have the chutzpah to say it doesn't make sense environmentally to keep the existing airport?
How do you walk away from an entire airport and all it's main buildings, all the requisite sewage and electrical and all other lines, everything, including the tower and its building and then all the additonal, supporting buildings and structures and construction, including the parking facilities, car rental companies, everything, only to build all new and say that's good environmentally?
In what bizarro, parallel universe does that hold true?
Third note--the Airport Authority claims a new terminal will be "Economic Development and Jobs Catalyst" because "Construction of a new terminal at the airport will be the LARGEST construction project in Kansas City and will create 1,800 new construction jobs."
Seriously, they claim that.
Could we stop this, please? Could we stop with the nonsensical thinking that just because some short-term construction project (like the Keystone XL oil pipeline, for instance) will very temporarily create some construction jobs for a little window of time, that it's a great idea to go forward with a big, honestly stupid, destructive construction project? Please?
Here's something that would create a lot of construction jobs--How about we KEEP THE CURRENT, ALREADY-BUILT KCI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MAKE TERMINAL B THE ENTRANCEWAY FOR SECURITY AND THEN CREATE RAMPS OUT TO, AGAIN, EXISTING TERMINALS A AND C WHERE WE WOULD BOARD OUR PLANES?
Problems solved.
There's your solution, folks. This way, we have the one-entrance we need for security, we create our oh-so-important, if temporary construction jobs and we DON'T THROW AWAY AN ENTIRE AIRPORT AND ALL THE RELATED BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION ALREADY EXISTING, AS WELL AS CREATING A HUGE, MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR, NEW COST THE PEOPLE HAVE TO PAY?
More empty points the Authority claims today, with their paper:
We'd get "The single terminal will attract more and better dining and retail amenities..."
Who's zooming who here? A) People aren't going to go out to the airport just because we built a new 1.2 billion dollar facility and B) again, more importantly, why couldn't those "more and better dining and retail amenities" not be added to the existing structures?
Answer: they can and should be. There's no reason the Airport Authority can't market the existing facilities for these "more and better dining facilities and amenities now, as is. Heads up: they'd have to work.
They also promise "More and Better Parking" with today's announcement.
Uh, hello? Why?
If we need, in fact, "more and better parking", why wouldn't it already be set to be created around and near the existing facility? It makes no sense at all to start all over again, at a virtual "ground zero", building "more and better parking" at some new facility, miles away. Can you imagine the huge waste of the existing facilities, were this to take place? It's already there, Airport Authority. If we need it, the market will surely already build it. It will come. And it will come as is just as surely, if not more so, as if we start all over again.
The next one is just a sheer, bold-face lie:
Increased Travel Options
The new terminal will include common use gates and open possibilities for additional domestic, international and direct flights that KCI currently can’t accommodate.
Right.
How is that? This isn't just a matter of being skeptical or even cynical. Again, if there are markets needed for "additional domestic, international and direct flights," they will most surely be added. How is it, exactly, Airport Authority, that "KCI currently can't accomodate" these flights? It isn't for lack of space because that's surely up there right now. I call nonsense.
Next up, the Authority says we should spend this 1.2 billion dollars on a new facility--and again, walk away from the existing structures--because of the "Innovation" it will bring.
You want to talk "innovation"? Go to the existing KCI Airport, with its beautiful buildings that we already like so much and that are so convenient, thank you very much, and retrofit them with these walkways, as I mentioned above, and then do very "green", environmentally wise and intelligent, cutting edge technology for the energy, electricity, heating and cooling, everything. THAT, ladies and gentlemen, would be "innovative." And you also wouldn't throw away untold millions and billions of dollars worth of facilities that are already there, existing.
Which brings us to the next big, bogus claim by the Authority. They say a new KCI would be wise environmentally.
This is the one that really makes my blood boil. Well, along with the fact that they're basically sticking the huge price tag on the people, for the airlines benefit.
HOW IN HELL DO YOU WALK AWAY FROM AN EXISTING, FUNCTIONING, VERY EFFICIENT AND APPRECIATED AIRPORT, PROPOSE TO BUILD A NEW ONE, BASICALLY THROWING AWAY THAT FACILITY AND ALL THE ONES NEARBY, SUPPORTING IT, BUILD A NEW ONE AND CALL THAT WISE, ENVIRONMENTALLY?
Answer? You can't. Not in this universe. Not anyone who's connected to this reality. That is insane. Insane and a lie.
Here again, they're saying the new airport would be "built to LEED standards."
Great.
You know those 1,000 construction jobs they promised us with the new airport they jones for?
Here's your 1,000 construction jobs: Again, retrofit the existing terminal so it's LEED certified. Make the existing facility that much more efficient. THAT makes sense. Huge win, all around.
Then, they save the biggest lie for last. The last reason they give as reason to build a new KCI and walk away from all the existing buildings is...
Wait for it...
Cost Savings
The new terminal will save money.
Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is chutzpah of the highest order.
They're saying that building a new, 1.2 billion dollar airport--when we already have one, mind you--and walking away from the existing airport and all its surrounding, auxilary facilities and buildings, is going to cost less than working with the existing facility.
Once again, in what weird, twisted, exotic, bizarro universe is that possible?
Imagine this--you have a beautiful home. (Maybe you already do). You like it and it works well but you want to make improvements. And I don't care if you're a billionaire (we're not), how is it you could walk away from your existing home, build a brand new one and "save money"? Where is that possible? On what planet or in what dimension of existence is that so? I'm not aware of it.
Oh, yeah, these people just got me started. I've covered a bit of the insanity here, now, today but rest assured, I'm going to keep on this.
This is insane.
With thanks to Tony at Tony's Kansas City Blog, check out this link to reporter Mike Mahoney, trying to speak to new airport supporter and City Councilman Russ Johnson:
http://www.kmbc.com/news/kansas-city/KMBC-s-Micheal-Mahoney-goes-after-answers-on-KCI-Airport-study/-/11664182/19623654/-/rewfhw/-/index.html
This is irresponsible to the point of stupid.
Parts of it are boldface lies.
It's extremely wasteful and it's an environmental, ecological nightmare, too, looking to happen.
We need to make sure that this doesn't go forward.
I remember, years ago, when a law firm wanted to buy a beautiful old apartment building on the Plaza. They wanted to raze it and build their own new headquarters.
Not only that, they wanted TIF money, mind you, ON THE PLAZA, no less, to do it. They wanted you and I to foot a significant part of that bill to do it.
That was crazy and selfish and expensive and stupid, too.
But the people stood up, raised heck and said no and it didn't happen.
That's what we need to happen here, on this, now.
Let's get busy, people.
It's hugely expensive, it's environmentally irresponsible, it's wasteful, it's unnecessary and there is no good reason--not one--to do this. it would cost us, the people, in many ways. We shouldn't let this go forward. We must stop this.
Contact your City Council member now:
http://www.kcmo.org/CKCMO/CityOfficials/CityCouncilOffice/index.htm
Make it clear we--you--don't want this.
Thank you, in advance.
Links: http://fox4kc.com/2013/04/04/needed-about-2-billion-for-a-one-terminal-kci-airport/
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2013/04/04/kci-single-terminal-plan-passes.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_kansascity+%28Kansas+City+Business+Journal%29
http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/local_news/city-leaders-in-kansas-city-mo-to-discuss-single-terminal-plan-for-kci-airport
http://www.kctv5.com/story/21882383/building-new-kci-airport-moves-closer-to-reality
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Conclusions you have to come to about Kyle James
Okay so, once again, Kyle James--son of Kansas City Mayor Sly James--is in jail. This above, is apparently his latest arrest photo, too.
Who cares what the reason is. (Well, other than the his parents, anyway).
With this, with him being arrested and put into jail once again, it seems easy and obvious to come to at least a few conclusions about him.
First, he must not learn lessons.
Second, he must not care a fig about his father's political career or personal reputation, let alone his own.
Third, he just can't seem to grow up, mature and take responsibility for his own life and actions.
Sad, very sad, as well as unfortunate and totally, utterly, completely unnecessary.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
On Mayor James speech today
Can we now get the kind of security for the mayor of Kansas City that we ought to already have?
Thank goodness nothing more serious--or worse--happened.
Because it certainly could have.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013
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