Crankytown: Week in Review

Tonight’s installment of KCPT Channel 19’s Week in Review involves yours truly, along with my media colleagues Micheal Mahoney from KMBC Channel 9, Dave Helling from the Star and Jim Davis from the Business Journal. Host Nick Haines had a lot for us to talk about, and we blew through quick punditry on the Sprint Center ticket madness (i.e., Kansas City discovers that big-name concerts sell out fast and are very, very expensive); various discomforts related to parks board and Minuteman member Frances Semler; Matt Blunt’s craven political pandering – uh, excuse me, big-hearted effort – to restore health coverage to poor people (which he took away a couple of years ago); and the possibility of casinos around the Kansas Speedway. The show airs at 7:30 tonight and again at 11 a.m. on Sunday, September 30.

The discussion was moving so quickly that I didn’t have a chance to say this about the Sprint Center ticket craziness. It’s an extremely painful point to make, but here it is: Hearne Christopher Jr. is doing the Star’s best reporting on the issue so far. (My fingers exploded as soon as I wrote that, so now I’m typing with my chin.)