RT @MayorLucasKC: Stars and Stripes Picnic 2025 .Happy Fourth of July 🇺🇸

It takes a village. Enjoy a safe and happy Fourth of July with your village in Kansas City, the surrounds, or wherever you are in the world today.

RT @cdlong97: Dear Kansas City: we will continue to do everything in our power to bring the WNBA to our region. Please see official stateme….

Passage of the Big Ugly Bill is a step backward for the health of our country and the pocketbooks of the working class here in Middle America and nationwide. We'll do all we can as a city to support our kids, our hospitals, and all working to build better lives for all.

RT @SidKhurana3607: The largest Trump-Harris city is Lee's Summit, Missouri (KC suburb of 101K):. 2012: R+16.2016: R+11.2020: R+1.2024: D+2….

Let’s talk improvements for safety, connections, and commerce on the 71 Highway and Prospect corridors. Let us know your thoughts at

Proudly standing with our Prosecutor, our Chief, and our Representative to remind folks of the dangers of reckless “celebratory” gunfire and to recognize the dozens of charges filed since Blair’s Law. What comes up comes down. Respect our community this weekend and every day.

Give me more than empty rhetoric. Our fund balance (rainy day fund) is at the strongest position in our City’s history. And, all of our employees have received healthy raises in recent years. We’ll proudly compare our local fiscal responsibility to the Big Reckless Bill.

Yes. Far more than national republicans.

It doesn't matter to me how they vote. I hope we can all come together to save communities and save lives.

Friends, the health, success, and survival of our rural sisters and brothers in Middle America matters to us all. Sad to see what the Big Bill will do to hurt them and, ultimately, us all.

“Working-age women outside of metropolitan areas now live fewer years than they did in 1979 – nearly half a century of medical progress erased.”.

Why 30+ years later are we making things worse, as new policy changes challenge the survival of rural healthcare? My heart aches for the future of rural pediatric and maternal care—the type that helped me and so many others in rural America a generation ago.

At a certain point you have to ask, “What are we doing? Why?” . I’m blessed to be here today thanks to care I received as a poor child at an urban hospital like (the-then) Truman Med and at a rural hospital like Hutchinson Hospital years ago.

Mayor Barnes had it right with downtown. Housing density is core to area redevelopment. The merit of housing-heavy reinvestment in areas like the Riverfront, West Bottoms, and 18th & Vine. Need more housing on Prospect and Southeast KC to support long-term corridor success.

Whatever happens. You don’t move dates for an almost century old tradition.

I may clip the game intro. It’s a doozy and a reminder of how far we’ve come! Shout out Dick Wilson/Oldies 95 in the lighting clip.

No problem, as 1995 provides the answer. Chiefs played the late game. Plaza Lighting took place an hour later at 7:30 and guest lighter Coach Roy Williams handled the festivities after the Steve Bono-led Chiefs came up short during the game. It’s been done. Path laid out I hope.

I have a thing for old video clips about Kansas City. Last week it was useful!. This November, the Chiefs play at the Cowboys on Thanksgiving in the late game, making some wonder the effect on the 96th annual Plaza Lighting ceremony.