FYI=WTF?

By C.J. JANOVY

More evidence that the chipper airheads in the Star’s FYI department don’t read their own paper, or perhaps any newspaper: Monica Watrous’ column today expressing surprise that there’s a branch of the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City (admitting that she didn’t even know what the Fed was). But a quick database search indicates that the phrase “Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City” showed up 85 times in the Star over the previous year; the name of Fed President Tom Hoenig was mentioned 24 times just in the past year. (He’s been president of the local Fed for 17 years.) And just so you know, Monica, the Fed’s been in downtown Kansas City since 19-frickin’-14. That’s what we love about FYI. They’re so informed.