Eric Adler

1 week ago | kansascity.com | Eric Adler

Max Popoff, owner of Farewell, a music venue at 6515 Stadium Drive in the Leeds neighborhood of Kansas City. Jackson County recently reassessed the value of the property from $56,000 to close to near $700,000, an 1,1000% increase that Popoff appealed.

2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Eric Adler

"This is a shakedown," Ian Davis, owner of Blip Coffee Roasters in the Kansas City West Bottoms, said of a property revaluation that took the value of his property from $106,600 to $773,900. The Kansas City Star This year Ian Davis, the owner of Blip Coffee Roasters - a coffee shop in the industrial north end of the West Bottom - a place popular with bikers, cyclists, scooter riders, "anything on wheels," Davis said - has been watching all of his costs rise. Gas. Electricity. Insurance.

2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Eric Adler

Christian Cooper, 62, a New York birdwatcher, comic book writer and gay activist, who in 2020 was falsely accused of threatening a white woman in Central Park, is to speak at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

3 weeks ago | decaturdaily.com | Eric Adler

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3 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Eric Adler

By July 1, Kansas City's police department may already be looked at in different light: steady and blue. On Tuesday, the city's Finance, Governance and Public Safety committee voted to approve a resolution for 153 of the city's 375 marked (as opposed to unmarked) police cruisers to patrol the city with their blue roof lights steadily on. It's something police in a number of cities, such as Baltimore, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Charlotte, North Carolina, already do.