Tag: kansas city
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Kansas City (MO) Farmer’s Market Ranks in the Top 10
Livability: America's Best Farmers Markets: 10 Amazing Local Farmers Markets After running for 150 years, the City Market knows a thing or two about providing quality farm products. The market dates back to 1857, and has only grown finer with age. As the largest farmers market in the region, the City Market hosts over 140…
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Segregation Illustrated for Kansas City (and Maybe Your’s)
HT: Blog KC Key: Red = Caucasian, Blue = African American, Yellow = Latino, Green = Asian. One dot is 25 people. Based on 2000 Census data. See the full Kansas City Map here. For forty other cities click here.
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A solution for the Cosby Hotel
I love much of the old architecture in downtown Kansas City, MO. Presently, the 125-year-old Cosby Hotel at 9th and Baltimore is due to be demolished because it is unsafe. The developer who was to redevelop has not done so. So Blog KC reports a possible solution: The upshot is that the building in an…
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Kansas City ranks among the most tattooed cities in America
Kansas City Business Journal: Kansas City ranks among the most tattooed cities in America Kansas City’s image as an unassuming Midwestern city may be changing. Website totalbeauty.com included Kansas City in its list of the “top 10 most tattooed cities in America.” Kansas City ranked No. 9 — one spot above Los Angeles. The website…
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Where Americans Are Moving
Forbes: Where Americans Are Moving An interesting interactive map shows the counties with the highest net inflow of people from your county and the counties with the highest net inflow into your county. Here is a map of my home, Jackson County, MO.
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Groundhog Run attracts its biggest crowd
Kansas City Star: Groundhog Run attracts its biggest crowd When it was just about over Sunday morning, an hour and a half after the second and final race of the day had started, race director LeRoy Unruh revealed the turnout for the 28th annual Groundhog Run. “It’s the biggest ever,” he said, turning to another…
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Documentary reveals Auschwitz horror through survivors’ memories
Kansas City Star: Documentary reveals Auschwitz horror through survivors' memories At the end of each workday, the concentration camp prisoners usually stood in a straight line to be counted. One day, however, they were told to form a square. Guards had captured two girls trying to escape. They were to be hanged. The prisoners had…
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“Deep Church” – Book Review
Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional Just over ten years ago, my friend Steve told me he was part of a core group that wanted to plant a church in my neighborhood, not far from downtown Kansas City, MO. He wanted to know if I knew of a place they could meet.…
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COR Goes Downtown
Tonight was the inaugural service for the Church of the Resurrection (Methodist megachurch in Leawood, Ks) at their downtown Kansas City, Mo, location, Rez Downtown. They were expecting fifty people, and I would guess they had at least 250. The service was held in the Scarritt Building, catty-corner from the Grand Avenue Temple (Methodist), where…