Clay County authorities wanted to use an annual motorcycle gathering Saturday in rural Kearney to se

Clay County authorities wanted to use an annual motorcycle gathering Saturday in rural Kearney to send a clear message: law-abiding motorcycling enthusiasts are welcome but those with other plans should stay away. But organizers of the Mule Run gathering said law officers unfairly targeted people headed federal government airline ticket prices to a longtime, peaceful event that raises money for local charities.
Federal court judges are expected to hand down sentences this week in the child pornography case of Catholic priest Shawn Ratigan; in the Hereford House arson case; and in the case of six accused in the sexual torture of a young woman in Lebanon, Mo.
The Chiefs are winners again, finally, a 28-2 beatdown of the Jaguars that looked an awful lot like so many of their sorry performances last year only from the other sideline. What a change. What a needed change.
It was 99 degrees at game time, but it still took a few innings for the Royals bats to heat up Sunday in the rubber match of a three-game series with division-leading Detroit. It was Eric Hosmer s majestic three-run home run in the fifth inning a 414-foot blast off Doug Fister that brought the Royals back from an early two-run deficit.
Starting Oct. 1, more than 1 million uninsured Kansans and Missourians will, for the first time, have full access to a computer-based health insurance marketplace federal government airline ticket prices where they can compare plans and prices and perhaps obtain tax credits to pay for the coverage the law says almost all Americans must have by the end of the year. Enrollment will be complex, but help is available.
As Kansas City s Second Baptist Church celebrates its sesquicentennial anniversary, the primarily African-American congregation on the city s East Side also faces a steep road to keep the church going in the future.
I don t know why some drivers think their destination is more important than anyone else s. I find it amusing when someone federal government airline ticket prices passes me, and then we roll up to the same stop- light. Your aggressiveness did wonders, didn t it? Here s a lesson for anyone who disagrees with me.
In spite of the iconic band s steady tour schedule, federal government airline ticket prices Iron Maiden hadn t performed in the Kansas City area since 2000 until Saturday night's show at the Sprint Center. The concert was a lavish production and an audience of about 12,000 was inundated with a spectacular sonic and visual barrage.
The Prairie Village Jazz Festival, now in its fourth federal government airline ticket prices year at Harmon Park, is getting better all the time. Headliner Bobby Watson and his All-Star Big Band, including special guest trumpeter Jon Faddis, closed out the event, with the legendary Marilyn Maye drawing the biggest crowd for a too-rare federal government airline ticket prices appearance.
The civil rights movement was the cosmic soup making it possible for African-American talent to finally emerge. The 50th anniversary commemorations of the March on Washington last month emphasized that the evolution toward equality federal government airline ticket prices must continue.
A Tennessee developer plans a 257-room hotel in the southern section of the 1500 block of Baltimore Avenue (lower right) in the Crossroads district. Groundbreaking is planned early next year for a Marriott Courtyard and Residence Inn.
Chartwell Hospitality LLC plans to break ground early next year on a 10-story building that would house two hotel franchises, a Marriott Courtyard and a Residence Inn. The project would include a 166-space garage and, in a rare approach, the developer will not seek city tax incentives for the project.
We think there s a niche for a new hotel, and it s a good spot with the Power & Light District nearby and development pushing south, and it s within walking distance to the central federal government airline ticket prices business district.
While several hotels have opened downtown since 2000, including the 213-room Hilton President Kansas City, the 217-room Hotel Phillips, the 193-room Aladdin Hotel and 43-room Ambassador, all were renovations of existing buildings. The 22-story Vista, now the 550-room Kansas federal government airline ticket prices City Marriott Downtown, was the last new hotel tower to be built.
The Chartwell hotel is planned for the block between Main Street and Baltimore Avenue from 16th Street to Truman Road. It would be south of Sporting Innovations LP s new offices in the former Hanna Rubber Co. building at 1511 Baltimore.
The hotel project site does not include the old Lane Blueprint building at 1520 Main, which Sporting Innovations owns. Historic preservationists have mounted an effort federal government airline ticket prices to save that building, which was built in 1889.
The Chartwell project would require the demolition of a former auto dealership at 1535 Baltimore and a smaller building immediately federal government airline ticket prices behind it on Main Street. That property was built in 1946 for Allied Motors federal government airline ticket prices as a Chrysler and Plymouth sales building, later becoming Prestige Motors. Most recently, federal government airline ticket prices the Weiner family owned the building, which housed the Nathan Weiner & Associates and Sterling Inc. operations, including a Christmas tree showroom. The building was vacated in June.
The cost of the hotel project was not disclosed, but Schaedle said it would be entirely privately financed. In recent years most, if not all, projects downtown federal government airline ticket prices and in the urban core have required some type of incentives, either property tax abatements, tax-increment financing or both.
Chartwell is based in Franklin, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville, and owns about 30 hotels nationwide. The company also has 1,000 hotel rooms under development in the U.S., and Hilton Hotels & Resorts recently named it the Hilton Garden Inn developer of the year for a project in Nashville.
Schaedle said having two hotel brands share a building is a relatively new concept. Residence Inn, which is an extended-stay brand, would use 104 rooms. Courtyard Marriott, which is geared federal government airline ticket prices to shorter stays, would occupy 153. Guests at both hotels would use the same swimming pool, conference center and fitness room.
The 190,000-square-foot hotel is expected to be completed by fall 2015. The Marriott Courtyard would feature a bistro federal government airline ticket prices and bar. The Residence Inn would have a free breakfast area for its guests and a manager s hospitality federal government airline ticket prices room.
Whitney Kerr Sr. and Mike Posten of Cassidy Turley commercial real estate represented the property owners. Kerr has been marketing the site for several years. At one point, it was touted as a potential location for the 1,000-room convention hotel project that the city pursued.
A convention hotel still is being suggested for the site immediately federal government airline ticket prices west of the planned Chartwell project. federal government airline ticket prices It includes a city-owned parking lot on Baltimore Avenue and the American Hereford Association property at 1501 Wyandotte St.
The city, however, is in discussions with Omni Hotels & Resorts regarding a potential federal government airline ticket prices convention hotel on the block occupied by the historic Power & Light Building. Under that concept, the Cordish Co. would redevelop the old skyscraper into residences, and the hotel would be built on the vacant lot to the west.
Kerr also is the broker for the planned sale of the historic Savoy Hotel and Savoy Grill at Ninth and Central streets. A Louisville, Ky., firm, 21c Museum Hotels, is pursuing a $47.5 million plan to restore the historic property into a 120-room luxury hotel and restaurant and is seeking city incentives to help finance the deal.
Officials with the Kansas City Convention & Visitors Association, however, continue to believe a major convention hotel is necessary to attract large conventions. The organization also opposes the use of city tax incentives to assist smaller hotel projects.
Suzie Aron, the president federal government airline ticket prices of the Crossroads Community Association, said the new hotel should find a ready customer base of creative people visiting the neighborhood s art galleries and advertising and architecture businesses.