2024 Question: Time To Leave Kansas City?!?

Let's start on a bright note . . .

Anybody who would have packed up from Kansas City in 2013 would've missed an EPIC World Series victory. So many playoff games and historic Super Bowl glory for the Kansas City Chiefs AND one of the greatest increases in local property values (and taxes) in more than a century.

Also, I'm pretty sure that local hipsters broke some kind of record for the number of crappy coffee shops and podcasts undertaken. 

Sorry, but all of this is more exciting and lucrative than ANYTHING going on in Belton, MO or Salina, KS right now. 

Meanwhile . . .

Just for Sunday . . . We take time to visit a note from and old friend and another guy who teaches journalism at the city college nonprofit juggernaut. 

Accordingly, we wanted to share the basics of a question that local scribe Patrick Tuohey inspired us to reconsider . . . Given that this cruel Summer has been dominated by the very same SERIOUS QUESTIONS regarding public safety and rising taxes. 

Check-it . . .

"Former Kansas City Star Columnist Steve Kraske pretends that the issues with which Kansas City struggles — crime, education, high taxes, ineffective government — do not impact quality of life. They most certainly do. Second, he leaves out that Kraske himself lives in Kansas. I don’t know if Kraske ever lived in Missouri. But if he did, at some point he asked himself, “Is it time to leave Kansas City?” and answered that it was."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Show-Me: Quality Of Life Published First In 2013

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