First up, we survey a health, hotness and fast food . . .
Vice: I Love My Big Boobs, But Bra Shopping Is a Nightmare
Daily Mail: Charlotte McKinney flaunts bountiful cleavage in thong bikini
The Guardian: ‘Chicken is where it's at’: the unstoppable rise of KFC
Closer to home, we're checking these links right now . . .
Brookside Brew Review
Arrowhead Pride Beer of the Week: BKS Artisan Ales Sum of Things IV IPA
Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of the Beer of the Week! As always, the Beer of the Week is originally presented on the Arrowhead Pride Tailgate on 610 Sports Radio as part of my "Defense and Beer of the Week" segment.
Kansas City In The Midst Of Outbreak
CDC monitoring measles cases in 21 states, including Missouri and Kansas
Health officials across the country are monitoring the spread of measles across 21 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to CDC, there have already been 107 cases reported this year. The majority of those cases were in people who were not vaccinated.
Taxpayers Funding Another Downtown Kansas City Good Life Endeavor
Worcester Investments asks to cut labor costs on KC project - Kansas City Business Journal
The developer handling a renovation of Downtown's so-called Flashcube Building wants to cut what it pays for labor in exchange for increasing the number of affordable housing apartment units in the project. The Planned Industrial Expansion Authority on Thursday approved a proposal by Worcester Investments to cut the percentage of jobs paying prevailing wages on the redevelopment of the building at 720 Main St.
More Deets On EPIC Weed Love
Two people arrested in Platte County with nearly $1 million worth of marijuana
PLATTE COUNTY, Mo. -- The Platte County Sheriff's Office arrested two people accused of transporting more than 200 pounds of marijuana through the county. Formal charges are pending against Destiny Browning, 37, of Louisville, Kentucky, and Paul Deliz, 41, of Mesquite, Texas.
Joco Student Head Check
Johnson County schools partner with mental health department to combat teen suicide
The 2017-2018 school year was a tough one for teen suicides in Johnson County, KS. As a new school year gets underway, school leaders are doing something different to fight the growing problem. The Johnson County Mental Health Department says they have worked with individual schools in the past but say having all six superintendents come to them and ask for help is unprecedented.
Cowtown Tech Talk Redux
Nominations open for Techweek 100 list of KC innovators, cultivators
It's not a ranking. Techweek 100 celebrates the whole spectrum of individuals and organizations who are impacting the business and technology landscape on a significant scale in cities like Kansas City, organizers said.
Kansas City Artsy Event Promo
For One Kansas City Artist, 'Open Spaces' Means Extra Room To Breathe
Through late spring and into early summer, Kansas City artist Dylan Mortimer searched the trees in Swope Park for signs of death. He found a 40-footer that was dead for sure, but the park staff told him it was too close to the road and hazardous; they cut it down.
Disturbed - Are You Ready is the song of the day and this is the OPEN THREAD for right now . . .
Fabulous "art" like this surely must be very expensive.
ReplyDeleteAfter this thoughtful purchase, is there anything left of the $500,000 the taxpayers unwittingly ponied up for Sly's Art at Swope Park" fiasco?
The Platte county Marijuana dealers jumped the gun. Probation until November, than tax them and let the sales begin. Pot should make the state money not cost it.
ReplyDeleteSo the "Developers" receiving TIF to turn the Flashcube into Section 8 housing have now been approved to pay for cut-rate labor!
ReplyDeleteBut the "Illegals" are supposed to leave the Country! Who'll pick the crops and install roofs then, let alone install the elevators and fire stairs and windows in this building?
Oh, and be prepared to start changing your own Hotel sheets folks, unless, that is, you're staying in a place run by one certain Unnamed Organization (starts with 'T') that is getting all the exceptions to "hiring foreigners" rules it wants.
Having a widow in your apartment in that building will be a luxury. Who wants to live without a window ? Poorly designed building for people, was it full of computers or unhappy workers ?
ReplyDeleteOh, it was a notorious s**t hole to work in from Day One.
ReplyDeleteDepending on where your desk was located, you either burned up in the morning or sweltered in the afternoon, if you weren't huddled in the dark chilly center.
The initial layout was a typical banking "prairie dog farm" of cubicles (heads popping up at each unusual sound", with "executive offices" and conference rooms around the outside, but the management soon learned to migrate inward and banish the proles to the outside.
ReplyDeleteSheriff Mark Owen said in a statement, “Thanks to the hard work of our deputies more drugs have been removed from the streets of Platte County. Drugs, including marijuana, present a hazard to our citizens and we will continue our efforts to remove it from our streets.”
Give me a fucking break. Mark, get a clue you imbecile. Nobody believes this old lie anymore. The tide has shifted.