Kansas City won acclaim for free bus fares, but the money's drying up. Who will pay now?
Kansas City’s zero fare bus policy was supposed to be fully funded with local dollars, but no one ever crafted a plan to sustain it.
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Kansas City’s zero fare bus policy was supposed to be fully funded with local dollars, but no one ever crafted a plan to sustain it.
The prospect of a landfill on the edge of Kansas City and a stone's throw from a golf course community has pitted a half-dozen Missouri mayors against a private company with an army of Jefferson City lobbyists.
Developers hoping to build a landfill along Route 150 in south Kansas City have hired 18 lobbyists in the hopes of stopping state legislation that could kill the project before they even formally propose their plan. “They’ve run a covert cloak and dagger-like operation,” Raymore’s mayor told a Missouri House committee in February.
Developers hoping to build a landfill along Route 150 in south Kansas City have hired 18 lobbyists in the hopes of stopping state legislation that could kill the project before they even formally propose their plan. “They’ve run a covert cloak and dagger-like operation,” Raymore’s mayor told a Missouri House committee in February.
Opposition to a proposed Kansas City landfill has sparked an effort in the Missouri House to kill the project. The bill has passed committee.