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The Urbanophile (Free subscription) | yesterday
[ This post originally appeared on January 12, 2007 ] One of the trends firmly entrenched in the urban development and arts world today is to spend a staggeringly large sum of money to hire a star architect to design a new building for local institutions. Cities and donors have long had an "edifice complex" so I suppose this isn't surprising per se, but the scale of some of these investments...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A northeast Kansas City restaurant is open for business tonight after an electrical fire damaged the exterior roof of its building. Fire officials estimated the blaze caused about $10,000 in damage to the Smuggler’s Inn on Universal Avenue near Interstate 435 and Front Street.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
TOPEKA | Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson announced more cuts to schools and universities Thursday in the face of lower-than-expected tax revenues. He said lawmakers may have to look at rolling back tax breaks or raising some taxes if revenues continue to flag.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
When owners of the Empire State Building decided to blanket its towering facade this year with thousands of insulating windows, they were only partly interested in saving energy.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates.
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PaleoJudaica.com (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
A NEW BOOK on the history of the interpretation of the Talmud and its implications: Agreeing to disagree: KU prof’s new book on Talmud Written by Beth Lipoff, Staff Writer [Kansas City Jewish Chronicle ) Friday, 03 July 2009 12:00 Sergey Dolgopolski has studied Talmud in his native Russia, Israel and the United States, and in his new book, he’s come to a conclusion: the disagreements in...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
For Joe Kiely, the drone of thousands of trucks passing his Colorado plains town signals economic prosperity.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
A date doesn't need to break the bank, especially as potential partners are increasingly likely to value substance over style during the recession.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Hong Kong lawmakers said Saturday they would be unwilling to approve a plan to expand the city's Disneyland unless the government and Walt Disney Co. tell them how the theme park has performed since it opened in 2005.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
A firm appointed by Antiguan authorities to liquidate the assets of R. Allen Stanford's offshore Caribbean bank has won control of assets in the U.K. worth more than $100 million, a defeat for a U.S.-appointed receiver in an ongoing fight over jurisdiction in the case.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Negotiations for the sale of General Motors Corp.'s unit Adam Opel GmbH to Canadian autoparts maker Magna are progressing well and should soon be complete, the head of GM Europe said in remarks released Saturday.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
The economic downturn is allowing Malaysia's leader to chip away at an affirmative action program for Malay Muslims that has been considered virtually untouchable in the past.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
As President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the American health care system, the role of government is at the heart of the debate. In Europe, free, state-run health care is a given.
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
A man charged with shooting a prominent Kansas doctor who performed late-term abortions has been advocating through mailings from his jail cell that such killings are justifiable and communicating with individuals on the fringes of the anti-abortion movement, weeks after suggesting others might be planning similar attacks.
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sxeon | 05/29/2009
Thirteen-year-old Kavya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas, spelled laodicean , Thursday night to take top honors in the 82nd annual Scripps National Spelling Bee http://tamilgalata.blogspot.com
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behindindia2 | 05/29/2009
Cool and collected, Kavya Shivashankar wrote out every word on her palm and always ended with a smile. The 13-year-old Kansas girl saved the biggest smile for last, when she rattled off the letters to "Laodicean" to become the nation's spelling champion. Kavya Shivashankar, 13 years Old , Kansas Girl, Wins National Spelling Bee http://tamilgalata.blogspot.com
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yourfindit | 03/27/2009
In an attempt to make some money, former child star Willie Aames held a garage sale at his Olathe, Kansas home. Aames, who filed for bankruptcy last year and whose house is in foreclosure, held the sale Thursday. Among the items being sold were antiques, artwork, movie memorabilia, stuffed wildlife the actor had killed, a piano and leather couches. Aames argued prices with fans and signed autographs.
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