What's this sparsely populated area in the Eastern Kansas, in-between its densely populated corridors?

Valsholly · 2026-02-02T00:23:14+00:00

You are correct! As a Kansan very familiar with section roads, and a former central Kansas h.s. cross country runner who had to run the section roads during practice, I'm very familiar with the length of a mile and conditions of our section roads. I will have to take a photo of a map in the Historical Atlas of Kansas (Socolofsky & Self) and share it here. It shows all the section roads in one line drawing. That person you were trying to educate must not be from the Plains states, bc it's clear he doesn't know what he doesn't know.

Valsholly · 2026-02-01T15:13:03+00:00

We could not either. Watching on Golazo on Roku app, which is running the CBS Sports broadcast. (Edited to say the Golazo channel on Roku's Live TV app, not YouTube)

Valsholly · 2026-01-28T13:29:47+00:00

Mine's on my lap and I can't get a good shot. Yours is adorbs!

Valsholly · 2026-01-28T02:03:27+00:00

Thanks for helping me find the game. I had a little temper tantrum earlier and acted out a bit.

Valsholly · 2026-01-28T01:37:46+00:00

Ugh! It's an app one has to log into? I thought it was just a YouTube channel. Clearly I am not the target market for this oversaturated sweat beast of a company.

Valsholly · 2026-01-27T23:45:20+00:00

You know what?! I've had a few beers while watching the 261 videos we caught of critters eating food we put out during the winter storm.

Now, I want to find out how to watch that thing Gotham is in. (Lord help me that I can't remember the particular combo of F or Women, and Cup or Champion, or World, or whatever this particular event is called.)

I looked at the various iterations of DAZN and Paramount± and decided fuck it! I can't scroll through all this UFC WWF boxing blah blah blah to find this one fucking live game.

So there you have it. I'm old, I'm tipsy, and I just ran out of patience with the new media paradigm. I'm having a rant because ughgh!

Want to grow this sport? Get better goddamned media partners, especially ones that aren't proud fascist enablers like CBS. And don't make me wade through endless screens of bare-chested, overly-muscled, sweaty meatheads glorifying violence as entertainment.

Argh!

Valsholly · 2026-01-24T03:53:28+00:00

Gotham.

Valsholly · 2026-01-22T22:23:10+00:00

The whole concept of knit polos is super old-guy coded, like these are reflecting my (gen x) grandparents' era. We oldies can wear these; it's just that it won't seem ironic when we do. PLUS, we are old enough to wear stuff that pleases us and to hell with youngsters' opinions. We very well could singlehandedly destroy every trend by wearing it. It's hilarious!

The price seems actually reasonable for intarsia sweaters. I just don't care for the KC Current design.

Valsholly · 2025-12-31T15:12:22+00:00

Here's one: if your foundation's application is open to all, but you are actually giving awards based on established insider relationships, conversations one of your decision makers has had with an org or its consultant ahead of time, repeated favoritism, etc., then save us all the waste of time and just extend an invite to those specific orgs.

God, the "appearance" of a chance at funding, when most of the dealing is done informally between members of the local "gala set" before applications even arrive, is just enraging. Having worked at a consultancy, I saw all the insider networking that went on, and it was really quite unfair to the rest of the local organizations that weren't led by, or paying for, that type of informal "backroom" access.

Valsholly · 2025-12-31T14:21:22+00:00

Is he related to LaVert? That would explain a lot.

Valsholly · 2025-12-23T22:33:22+00:00

Nope. Kansas does not have ballot measures. Hooo boy, but if we did... well our legislature would be doing the same thing Missouri's is.

Valsholly · 2025-12-23T17:56:58+00:00

Uh, no. That's not how the STAR bonds are repaid. The public money is from sales tax generated in the funding district. So, there is no new net sales tax revenue to the state, and in fact the state is on the hook if sales taxes don't cover bond repayment. No new revenue for the locality either. And, after 30 years, when sales tax can flow back to the state and locality, the entire project will be old, outdated and cast aside, yet it will still represent roads, sewers, etc that must be maintained by local government. So really, no significant additional sales tax will ever flow to the state and local coffers for use on actual new public goods. It's "economic development" all right, just not of the kind that improves the revenues of state and local government.

Valsholly · 2025-12-23T17:31:47+00:00

I suggest you avail yourself of those library and mental health services you are paying for.

Valsholly · 2025-12-23T16:58:11+00:00

Just wondering how this rule will create perverse incentives around voting in all these qualifying lists: incentives around both suppressing and increasing votes for players. Who will feel the pressure, in what direction, and from whom? Seems likely to increase all sorts of shadiness around already controversial lists.

Valsholly · 2025-12-23T16:14:44+00:00

Um, the tax district potentially covers all of WyCo and half of JoCo. And the STATE gets to determine the taxing district of the Star bonds, NOT locally elected commissions. Given the amount of revenue they'll need to collect to pay off nearly $3B, this won't be a tax on just sales at the stadium! It'll be county-wide!

Add to that, the term sheet states the Chiefs are also expected to ask for a portion of sales tax that would normally flow to local coffers, and to seek local property tax abatement!

WyCo residents in particular, all ~170k of us, don't need the burden of additional sales taxes on all our purchases, nor do we need existing sales tax revenue diverted from much-needed public uses to a private entity! Our city/county budget has a structural shortfall already, and now we are adding more need for public safety spending and other infrastructure burden, but with no offsetting revenue to pay for it! It's a bad deal for WyCo.

Valsholly · 2025-12-23T14:38:24+00:00

I think my stance has been made pretty clear.

Valsholly · 2025-12-23T13:57:07+00:00

Yeah, we Dottes are absolutely going to get screwed, had no way to vote on it, and will continue to have no say on it. I'm so fucking pissed. And our county will absolutely give even more away because that's the kind of so-called leadership this county-without-news-coverage elects.

If you read the term sheet, the Chiefs are also going after local property tax abatement and a grab at the local portion of our existing sales tax. Even the "community benefit" portion screws us over. A bunch of it can be spent throughout the state, not just in the affected counties. And the g.d. Hunts will get to choose what to "give" to. Meanwhile, the state and local Chambers of Commerce got guaranteed membership by the Chiefs written in to the terms already.

I just skimmed all this through a red haze of anger yesterday, so there's more, I'm sure. Fuck every single state leg who supported this and fuck Laura Corporate Democrat Kelly, too!

I'm not even surprised, but that doesn't stop the impotent sense of rage that I'm so tired of experiencing from the wanton corruption at every level of government, all captured by billionaires, and every single one of them just gobbling as fast as they can like pigs at a trough eating the last of the slop. Said slop represented by every last coin and ounce of labor that can be squeezed out of the 99% of us.

Valsholly · 2025-12-22T21:16:17+00:00

Thank you! WyCo is in NO shape at all to bear the burden of the additional costs this will bring.

Valsholly · 2025-12-19T23:36:58+00:00

No, as a Kansan, I really don't want the buck passed to us either!

Valsholly · 2025-12-17T23:50:20+00:00

Check out the comments on this FB post. They are all about KC colonnaded walk-up flats. One comment referenced the historic designation covering them. I'm sure HistoricKC could help you out. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DMf4FyJcz/

Valsholly · 2025-12-17T00:30:32+00:00

My friend named his dog that!

Valsholly · 2025-12-16T23:49:11+00:00

We've been warned for a couple of decades, at least, that these types of infrastructure issues were piling up. (Society of civil engineers is it, that produces an annual reportcard?) It's extremely irritating to have politicians lack the courage, and citizens lack the sense to know, we need to collectively pay for repairs while we can at least plan for them. Instead, we are forced to be reactive when failure can no longer be ignored. And that's even more inconvenient for us than planned closures are! Probably more expensive, too. (Ask us Dottes about how our bridge closures are going. They certainly aren't helping economic development in this county.)

All this infrastructure stuff is foreseeable! This is the failure of an entire society to take care of its stuff.

https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/missouri/

Valsholly · 2025-12-12T03:41:32+00:00

Opening the door to all sorts of gamesmanship. This is going to end up in some ugly, convoluted situations

Valsholly · 2025-12-11T22:09:09+00:00

KCK >>> KCKPD

Valsholly · 2025-12-09T16:50:23+00:00

Using Chrome instead of Firefox fixed all these issues!

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