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CityRating.com – Kansas City Crime Report (Missouri)
Kansas City crime statistics report an overall downward trend in crime based on data from 11 years with violent crime decreasing and property crime decreasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in Kansas City for 2013 is expected to be lower than in 2010. The city violent crime rate for Kansas City in 2010 [...]
Occupy Kc Journal – Kansas City Quarterly Homicide Report – 2012
Kansas City Quarterly Homicide Report – 2012 http://www.kcmo.org/idc/groups/police/documents/police/2ndq2012homicidequarterly.pdf Kansas City Quarterly Narcotics and Vice Report 2012 http://www.kcmo.org/idc/groups/police/documents/police/2ndq2012_nvd_newsletter.pdf
Tony’s Kansas City – Kansas City Ranks in Top 10 on America’s most dangerous cities list
SHOCK!!! KANSAS CITY RANKS IN TOP 10 ON AMERICA’S MOST DANGEROUS CITIES LIST!!! Kansas City crime, violence and murder top the nation and earn this cowtown a dubious distinction. Thanks to an AWESOME TKC TIPSTER for finding this link buried on the KMBC site: America’s most dangerous cities “The crime index is a weighted average [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – Insiders Dominate Mayor Sly’s Airport Panel
TKC TOLD YOU SO!!! KANSAS CITY INSIDERS DOMINATE MAYOR SLY’S AIRPORT PANEL!!! Before every other mainstream media outlet . . . KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTERS revealed and complained that Mayor Sly was simply gathering insiders and yes-men appointees to restart the campaign for the new airport. Now, here’s proof that we were right all along . [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – Mayor Sly James has Abandoned the East Side
TODAY’S TKC EXCLUSIVE QUESTION: HAS KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY JAMES ABANDONED THE EAST SIDE?!?! Kansas City’s Mayor Sly James has spent the overwhelming majority of his brief career as the champion of local economic development – Sadly, none of that development has occurred near the Montgall address he bragged about during his campaign. Let’s review [...]
The Kansas City Star – Missouri lawmaker’s uncle pleads guilty in KC vote fraud case
In August 2010, Missouri House candidate John Joseph Rizzo defeated his Democratic primary opponent, Will Royster, by a single vote. Rizzo On Monday, Rizzo’s uncle John Moretina told a federal judge he lied about his home address that July so he could cast a ballot in Rizzo’s district. The case revived bitter [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – MOTHER OF ALL KANSAS CITY MISTAKES: TOY TRAIN STREETCAR TRENDS!!!
Kansas City is on track to make one of the most serious mistakes in this town’s history. To wit . . . KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTERS HAVE COLLECTED THIS QUICK TREND LIST THAT (YET AGAIN) REVEALS THE TOY TRAIN STREETCAR IS THE MOTHER OF ALL KANSAS CITY MISTAKES!!! Check it: THE TOY TRAIN STREETCAR POWER PLAY [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – Former Kansas Gov. Katy Pitches Obamacare Thanks To Questionable Big Money Donations
Call this a local Kansas lady making not-so-good . . . Cabinet Secretary Solicits Large Donations to Publicize Health Care Law Money Quote: “Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, has solicited sizable donations from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($10 Mil) and H&R Block ($500k), the tax preparation service, as part of [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Largest Fast Food Strike Yet as Workers Walk Out in Michigan
By Kevin Zeese – Posted on 11 May 2013 Fast food workers and Reverend Charles Williams II (center) picket a Long John Silver’s in Detroit, Mich. on May 10, 2013. (Photo courtesy of Suzette Hackney, D15 coalition.) By Ned Resnikoff MSNBC, May 10, 2013 Organizers estimate that as many as 400 workers at more [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Boston police spied on Occupy protesters instead of investigating Tsarnaevs
Runners continue to run towards the finish line of the Boston Marathon as anexplosion erupts near the finish line of the race in this photo exclusively licensed to Reuters by photographer Dan Lampariello after he took the photo in Boston, Massachusetts, April 15, 2013 (Reuters / Dan Lampariello) RT America May 10, 2013 The US [...]
Occupy Washington D.C. – Inspired by Freedom Riders, Workers Plan Caravans to Walmart Convention
By Josh Eidelson The Nation, May 5, 2013 Following a five-day organizing training and strategy summit in Birmingham, members of the labor group OUR Walmart will announce a plan to send civil rights movement–style caravans of workers from around country to converge at the retail giant’s June 7 annual shareholder meeting. Walmart workers [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – Kansas City Toy Train Courtroom Strong Arm Tactics
Kansas City Toy Train Courtroom Strong Arm Tactics: $20 Mil Appeal Bond Motion To Uphold Less Than 500 Gerrymandered ‘Yes’ Votes!!! Kansas City is finally getting a good look at the “win at all costs” mentality that Mayor Sly has brought to local government. Check it: KC Biz Journal: Kansas City wants the plaintiffs in [...]
41 Actions News – Kansas City Mayor wants streetcar opponents to pay for delays
By: Lindsay Shively KANSAS CITY, Mo. – As long as a lawsuit against the streetcar drags on in court, crews can’t start building the street car line. City leaders filed an emergency motion today to stop the delays they say could cost millions. “It will go away,” Mayor Sly James said. He believes the courts [...]
InstaPunk – Killing the Old White Guys
CROSS-POLLINATION. The liberals are having their moment. They haven’t had one of their own in the White House for 50 years, not since Lyndon Johnson. Carter was a pipsqueak (wake’em up in the middle of the night and ask — they’ll admit it) and Clinton was just a whoring deal maker, proof that policy and [...]
Occupy Student Debt Campaign – Rolling Jubilee
Greetings Fellow Student Debtors and Pledgers, Occupy Student Debt Campaign (http://www.occupystudentdebtcampaign.org/) is continuing the struggle against debt. OSDC has joined with other Occupy groups to form a collective debt refusal movement called Strike Debt. Strike Debt is spreading the word about debt as a global system of domination and exploitation. Please join OSDC and [...]
Occupy KC Journal – Muslims Againsts N.D.A.A. in Kansas City
WHAT: Press Conference (Muslims Against N.D.A.A) WHEN: Wednesday April 10, 6:30 p.m. WHERE: ISGKC Parking Lot (9520 James A Reed Rd, Kansas City, MO On Wednesday, April 10, the American Muslim Political Action Committee (AMPAC), the St. Louis chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAR-St. Louis), the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – DERRON BLACK WANTS TO RAISE CONSCIOUSNESS OF KANSAS CITY VOTERS
TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! Derron Black was cheerful, energetic, affable and almost soft-spoken at a recent Kansas City political forum held at the Bluford Library. With voter turnout at around 10% in the last Kansas City election, it’s clear that politics as usual won’t persuade the people of Kansas City – To that end, [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – BREAKING!!! KANSAS CITY ANTI-STREETCAR TOY TRAIN PETITION COMING SOON?!?!
Opponents and organizers AGAINST that Kansas City Downtown Toy Train Streetcar are thinking out loud . . . “Now that the lawsuit didn’t pan out, what about an effort to get a petition on the ballot that could stop the streetcar in its tracks? Outside of the TDD, we are being taxed without voting on [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – Democracy is Dead in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY STARTS PAYING FOR MAYOR SLY’S TOY TRAIN TODAY!!! Kansas City will pay dearly for the streetcar line when it comes to broken promises, cost overruns, traffic accidents and yet another pet project that FAILS to spark biz development. Today is just the beginning: “The Kansas City Downtown Transportation Development District will begin to [...]
Occupy Wall Street – Debt Strangles the 99%
76% of Americans are in debt. 15% are being pursued by one or more debt collectors. 22% of Americans are too impoverished to qualify for credit. That forces them into informal debt like payday loans or worse, which generate interest rates of up to 500%. So add that together and we have the 99%. Strike [...]
The Kansas City Star – Progress, but not success, for James on KC’s East Side
By YAEL T. ABOUHALKAH Kansas City’s second black mayor has been spending much time and money tackling intractable problems that have plagued the predominantly black East Side for decades. Sly James has pursued an innovative approach to reduce sky-high violent crime, a positive program to boost absurdly low reading rates for elementary grade students [...]
Occupy Los Angeles – AUMF 2001 Is The Disease. NDAA 2012 Is Only One Symptom.
The post 9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force is at the root of many evils including an Imperial Presidency, unconscionable drone strikes and unconstitutional indefinite detention under NDAA 2012. )( We have been calling on you to rise up against the indefinite detention provisions of NDAA 2012 since corporate fascist puppet Democratic president Barack [...]
Occupy KC Journal – The Doctor’s Failed – Now We Got the Affordable Health Care Act
Nobody failed harder then the doctor’s when it comes to getting the Health Care reform they wanted during the Health Care Revolution. They failed and the Health Insurance Companies wrote the Affordable Health Act, and now like everybody else the Doctor’s are now all slaves to corporate power called Health Insurance Companies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX43J2mT1do&list=UUsYc9GISkTV19KgVuCJNThg&index=34
The Kansas City Star – Probation violation lands Kyle James, KC mayor’s son, in jail
By TONY RIZZO The Kansas City Star Kyle James, the son of Kansas City Mayor Sly James, was booked into the Johnson County Jail today to begin serving a 30-day sentence for a probation violation. Kansas City Police Department Kyle James More News Read more Breaking News According to court records, James, 24, [...]
Tony’s Kansas City – KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY’S SON KYLE JAMES BACK IN JAIL ON PROBATION VIOLATION!!!
SHOCK OR NOT!?!?! KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY’S SON KYLE JAMES BACK IN JAIL ON PROBATION VIOLATION!!! Mayor Sly’s Son back in jail . . . Probation violation lands KC mayor’s son in jail 30 days in jail in DUI case for Kyle James . . . Which could further delay his upstart rap career . [...]
Occupy KC Journal – Derron Black for Mayor of Kansas City
Derron Black announces his Mayoral Candidacy on March 21, 2012 Posted by Derron Black for Mayor http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yhNeLbAJiyo A day after he walked out of a Kansas City, Mo., jail cell, the man who disrupted a speech by Mayor Sly James earlier this week said Thursday he’s running for mayor himself. Derron Black, 31, jumped [...]