tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post5446315940511669852..comments2024-03-27T13:12:00.821-05:00Comments on RAYTOWN REPORT: RAYTOWN'S LEADING NEWS SOURCEGreg Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02133276387013984873noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-46791299592819488492014-03-19T11:09:41.800-05:002014-03-19T11:09:41.800-05:00I have lived in Raytown all my life, I worked here...I have lived in Raytown all my life, I worked here as a firefighter/EMT for 22 plus years.<br />I am retired now and I am very upset with what has happened to the fire service and what they are doing to the citizens of this community.<br />1. we the citizens pay our fire taxes to the county for fire protection for Raytown and yet they are running calls for Kansas City fire. <br />I ran into some of the guys the other day and found out our firefighters are running calls clear down into the plaza! I was shocked to hear they run calls for KC. all over the metro area.<br />leaving our town unprotected. <br />whose brilliant idea was that? must have come from the fire board because the men aren't happy about it! also I found out that the board has asked the men to take a 5% pay cut to keep their jobs, ok where has all the money gone too? I guess the fire board has spent it foolishly.<br />now because of the larger call volume the guys are running for KC fire we the tax payers are paying for more fuel for the trucks and maintenance. KC fire isn't. so is this the reason the men who don't get paid that well had to take a pay cut?<br />I feel we need to get a new fire board whose interest is in what's best for the citizens. thank goodness the city still has the ambulance service! we may loose our house from a fire but at least we still have the best ambulance service around.<br /> Dave Wehnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10261430470617309285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-34047879789145723142014-03-16T11:12:35.425-05:002014-03-16T11:12:35.425-05:00Looking forward to it Matthew! Thxs for posting th...Looking forward to it Matthew! Thxs for posting that. <br />And to the blogger about google fiber cost; I too received the literature in the mail yesterday. Would be interested to go to the community center on one of the dates to hear about it so I'm more informed. Wondering if others are contemplating the same?Terrencenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-29602131304856062042014-03-16T04:03:45.597-05:002014-03-16T04:03:45.597-05:00Terrence, why are you so argumentive and verbally ...Terrence, why are you so argumentive and verbally belittling of others ? This blog is not a battle zone. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-25588864300068073052014-03-15T17:03:10.950-05:002014-03-15T17:03:10.950-05:00All,
Look this week for my biography and position ...All,<br />Look this week for my biography and position paper on the Charter and why I want you to vote for me for this commission. I am eager to have a discussion with those that are eager to move Raytown forward. In the mean time, feel free to email me at cush69@msn.com, or you can find me on facebook. Thanks so much.<br /><br />Matthew CushmanMatthew Cushmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-73313135562765921922014-03-15T16:15:53.266-05:002014-03-15T16:15:53.266-05:00NO MORE PROPERTY TAXES - kids had a more solid edu...<br />NO MORE PROPERTY TAXES - kids had a more solid education in the old one-room schoolhouse than they're getting at the hands of our school board. Our school board marxists are dumbing our children down with that common core curriculum they're teaching. Federalism doesn't belong in our classrooms. Why do they think we'd contribute to the ruination of our children's futures?<br /><br />NO MORE SALES TAXES - We haven't seen a return on investment for our tax dollars in decades. Men and women all over this city are working 2 jobs to say afloat; they love this city and their neighbors. We deserve better, are fed up and are ready to take up the reins again. The parasitic blood-suckers in city hall had better get ready to move on.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-68229356537478866922014-03-15T16:11:22.223-05:002014-03-15T16:11:22.223-05:00Hey need to know; about you tube and google; well ...Hey need to know; about you tube and google; well the conversation on both bloggers was about having to PURCHASE google to view meetings and the high cost of those. A lot of us use google for searches etc. but they were talking about having to Buy a package to do so. Hope that helps with your confusion of their commentsTerrencenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-54960367769217815772014-03-15T12:29:25.981-05:002014-03-15T12:29:25.981-05:00To march 13 @ 1:24 pm . I just recieved a brochure...To march 13 @ 1:24 pm . I just recieved a brochure about the cost of Google gigabit & tv in the mail and agree alittle high for my budget. I don't have Comcast either. From my understanding the board meetings will be posted on you tube as well. I have watched the past board meeting on you tube and incurred no cost in doing so. If it were at a cost Im sure It would have been mentioned as we were redirecting to view the meeting at the beginning of this weekly blog. As Paul assured us he too will continue to post the highlights of meetings. This should cover us nicelyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-16988553396383069432014-03-15T12:13:02.693-05:002014-03-15T12:13:02.693-05:009:20 pm no misinformation by the previous blogger ...9:20 pm no misinformation by the previous blogger about having to purchase google fiber to view you tube for board meetings. No misinformation what so ever on having to purchase comcast or google fiber to view you tube board meetings ; no contraction or apology needed from the blogger or their comment; we read it in its complete text and were very able to comprehend the text and scope of the comment. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-200008314583511742014-03-15T08:19:48.588-05:002014-03-15T08:19:48.588-05:00Yes you do not need to subscribe to google to reac...Yes you do not need to subscribe to google to reach you tube for the board meetings. You can still reach you tube via your internet via PC , I phone, library, etc, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-6476421612796479572014-03-14T22:20:01.785-05:002014-03-14T22:20:01.785-05:00Minutes posted on youtube can be reached via ANY b...Minutes posted on youtube can be reached via ANY browser using any isp. You don't have to use google's internet service at all - that's misinformation. Although (interestingly) google did just recently buy out youtube. Need To Knownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-66733174843719112452014-03-14T17:39:13.989-05:002014-03-14T17:39:13.989-05:00To march 9th 8:47 pm which KC mo. Taxes were sup...To march 9th 8:47 pm which KC mo. Taxes were suppose to end in April? And what about KC Mo school taxes that you are refering to???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-51384730249934017842014-03-14T10:01:46.603-05:002014-03-14T10:01:46.603-05:00A psychologically sound and mature approach is not...A psychologically sound and mature approach is not to be argumentive and belittling of others as it does take from ones commentsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-39705308602111106492014-03-14T09:52:08.841-05:002014-03-14T09:52:08.841-05:003/13@ 1:24; you won't have to do goggle you c...3/13@ 1:24; you won't have to do goggle you can save your money and watch the meeting via live or read the minutes later or you tube. Google and Comcast do not fit into my budget what so everAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-89501458450055400692014-03-14T05:09:01.513-05:002014-03-14T05:09:01.513-05:005:18 pm just repeating the guidelines that were po...5:18 pm just repeating the guidelines that were posted in July blog by the administrator as a constructive reminder so that as people express their opinions they can still do so in a non argumentive / belittling demeanor . Terrencenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-91988948630878535812014-03-13T21:41:00.632-05:002014-03-13T21:41:00.632-05:00I cannot speak for the one the one wrote they do n...I cannot speak for the one the one wrote they do not deserve your vote but what I read sounded like those that do not bother to show you their position on anything deserve nothing in return. Which would include your vote.<br /><br />So I guess that if you have candidates who do not even care to speak up for their candidacy. Scratch them off the list of who to vote for.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-46391845503684175452014-03-13T21:23:51.001-05:002014-03-13T21:23:51.001-05:00Google fiber is suppose to be faster internet and ...Google fiber is suppose to be faster internet and if you choose you can get their tv Experianced as well. More like when Jones Intercable came to town billions of years ago. Same hype then as now . DSL,DTTV,Comcast,ATT u verseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-27339466161554658002014-03-13T19:47:47.102-05:002014-03-13T19:47:47.102-05:00There will be 3 Saturdays in a row starting march ...There will be 3 Saturdays in a row starting march 22 at various community centers to discuss Google fiber the last being in Raytown. There is also a website for Google that explains the highspeed broadband internet with its gigs it's and the various tv options.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-62603748415542060012014-03-13T19:16:22.962-05:002014-03-13T19:16:22.962-05:00The green space... the Mayor and his stuck on anot...<br />The green space... the Mayor and his stuck on another grocery store band of incompentents need to just back off the whole ordeal.<br /><br />We need streets in great condition that don't tear up our cars. <br /><br />We need sidewalks throughout the city so we and the little kids can walk from point A to point B with out slogging through mud and worry about being mowed down.<br /><br />We need underground water drainage and street curbs throughout the city.<br /><br />We need a balanced city budget.<br /><br />Keep the green space mowed, that's all you need to do. We'll do what WE want to do with it when you're long gone and the financial bleeding your administration has caused us has stopped. We've seen your work and we don't like it. Gotta say though, that bike path that runs a block or two in front of city hall and those new street lights up there are mighty spiffy though. Those phallic city monuments are what, freudian reminders of our mayor's tyrannical leadership?<br /><br />If it weren't so painfully expensive, wasteful and contemptuous of the local small businesses, including our local grocers, and the electorate as a whole.... no, nevermind, it could never be funny after all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-23647763810407216122014-03-13T18:18:03.940-05:002014-03-13T18:18:03.940-05:00Hi there Terrence. Look, if it's not PC enough...<br />Hi there Terrence. Look, if it's not PC enough for you why do you return only to complain about that? There are some very important issues under discussion here, and it seems that the general consensus is that we agree to disagree - a psychologically sound and mature approach.<br /><br />3/13 10:32am Hold your horses, cause your turn's coming too. While city hall is bragging up the Katy trail for bicycles and a walking path coming through the middle of Raytown along the Rock Island line, remember that's just cheese to bait the mice. What they really intend to do with that is to put in a train depot and run a nice little diesel engine railcar that runs from Lees Summit, through the middle of town and on up to the sports complex. That, my friend will not only bring diesel pollution and a division of the city upon us, but it really goes nowhere and with it, they'll be taking land on both sides and we'll be paying dearly for it....TAXES GALORE. <br /><br />Did you really listen to Bower's 2014 State of the City Address? (it is on youtube). At about 20 minutes into the speech he states that the people of Raytown have said we don't want to drive cars. I didn't say that. Did you say that?<br /><br />I guess he figures he's going to take our cars from us and that everything we need and want, will be found along that rail between I70 and Lees Summit. Don't know about you my friend buy Davey Bower's gonna get my car at about the same time he's gonna get my guns.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-83110850076596784082014-03-13T17:39:16.065-05:002014-03-13T17:39:16.065-05:00Mr 9:22 PM, May I ask whom is it that does not des...Mr 9:22 PM, May I ask whom is it that does not deserve your vote. I did not read where you mention any names. GADSDENnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-41565340323675669192014-03-13T17:11:00.118-05:002014-03-13T17:11:00.118-05:00To need to know; reread post and re read 10 am pos...To need to know; reread post and re read 10 am post I says the exact sameAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-36152890676677477612014-03-13T14:24:49.200-05:002014-03-13T14:24:49.200-05:00Google Fiber is expensive. I'm not going to s...Google Fiber is expensive. I'm not going to sign up for it until I know if the city will broadcast the city council meetings on Google. I watch the meetings on Comcast. Why switch if I don't get everything I alredady have? I keep asking and all I get is "I hope so." or "I would think so." How come nobody knows for sure?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-22158948494357080402014-03-13T11:32:20.664-05:002014-03-13T11:32:20.664-05:00To march 10 at 4:49am ; I am sure glad I don't...To march 10 at 4:49am ; I am sure glad I don't live in Kansas City or within a mile of the trolley track if indeed that tax goes into placeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-54605497548414540382014-03-13T11:03:05.650-05:002014-03-13T11:03:05.650-05:009:21AM, This blog is much tamer than in the past s...9:21AM, This blog is much tamer than in the past since Greg finally established rules and enforces them. I appreciate Greg's effort in implementing these rules.<br /><br />Andy WhitemanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-29130100804222089082014-03-13T10:21:43.532-05:002014-03-13T10:21:43.532-05:00Why are some so argumentive and verbally belittlin...Why are some so argumentive and verbally belittling of others ? This blog is not a battle zone. Terrencenoreply@blogger.com