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Allison Darrahill
3 months
just one more mega project will fix her just one more mega project will fix her just one more mega project will fix her just one more mega project will fix her just one more mega project will fix her just one more mega project will fix her just one more mega project will fix her
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Allison Darrahill
1 month
KC if Missouri would fund Amtrak routes
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
Always bugs me seeing KC without sports compared to Des Moines or Omaha. Pretty sure we have a few other things going for us to accrue those extra 1.5 million more people than them.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
Nobody has a lower opinion of our city than yes on 1 people. If you think a rail bridge, bars and an empty arena is the only thing we have over Omaha you just hate it here.
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Chris Sally
2 months
We have a generational opportunity tomorrow. Vote Yes. The no people would not have built Hannibal Bridge, Power and Light, T-Mobile Center. We would be competing with Omaha instead of possibly Denver and Nashville. Make a statement tomorrow
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
Living downtown is so weird because so much of our infrastructure and streetscape feels frozen in amber from an age 30 or 40 years ago when people commuted down here to office jobs. Everything feels so over built for road traffic and underbuilt for pedestrians and residents.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
One of the many crimes of the 20th century was the federal government letting our passenger rail system collapse and disappear.
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Union Station KC
2 months
From the early 1920s, a Fred Harvey postcard featuring Union Station's east train sheds and Main Street viaduct. The Main Street viaduct led traffic directly over the train sheds. Running both east and west of the Station, the train sheds covered a total area of some 430,000 sqft
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
Crazy as it sounds, I actually have been in favor of a downtown stadium for years now and was very excited for it. I was really onboard with the East Village location before they went silent for months and came back with the crossroads location which I am not on board with.
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
@JusticeHorn_ All the Republicans who are still pushing the good guy with a gun narrative must have finally accepted that cops are not good guys. There's no other explanation for saying it given the circumstances.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
Lotta people saying a stadium here fixes this, but the real answer is we could narrow this street since there is pedestrian traffic and not vehicular traffic on this corridor. Crazy idea, we could even put some trees and bushes and flowers in on this grand boulevard.
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David Johnson 🏳️‍🌈
3 months
17th & Grand right now
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@kcbamburger Literally name one person
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Allison Darrahill
26 days
@JusticeHorn_ Makes you wonder what he might have said to some of his black teammates that several of them avoid him.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@cardsfan597 I think a bigger draw is probably the fortune 500 businesses headquartered here and multiple state universities in close proximity and industries and manufacturing and logistics hubs that all make a lot of money and employ people which is what actually decides where people live.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@STBikesKC Turns out we actually like public money when it's for public services
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
@QuintonLucasKC Broadway downtown and midtown is in terrible shape
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@Kylesfunhavings Kansas City Twitter is like 100 people how could we have influencers???
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Allison Darrahill
1 month
@chris_stritzel Honestly would be a huge improvement if CVS was just open past 8pm
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@bogan_mike15351 Right but the jobs at Garmin, oracle, commerce, umb, black and veatch, burns and Mac, Ford, Honeywell, ss&c, Hallmark, research hospitals, and federal agencies might sway a few folks.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@CBQ_Fanatic Can't get past why they all think sports are integral to the areas economy too
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@CBQ_Fanatic It's also funny to me cause like what do you mean vote no, the railroad built it themselves with their money because they thought this was a good spot for a hub. Our capitalists used to at least have the pride to build great things because it was good for business.
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
@JaseOfBase513 @alanthefisher Maybe because it's on top of a large hill that would be hard to build a train to. I could be wrong but that seems most obvious just from my observation
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Allison Darrahill
1 month
@rustbeltenjoyer @alanthefisher @who_shot_jgr @Angryscooter77 Nothing ever gave me as much anxiety as sending a text while in line for the slide
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@v_blackshdw @PanAmComintern @alanthefisher Nah he's definitely some teenager working part time living in his parents house in the suburbs who just discovered ideologies last semester at school.
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
@ChristoSilvia @alanthefisher Then you want to ride coach which is usually the price of a plane ticket. You get a big comfy seat and are free to move about the train and they provide hot water and tables to sit at.
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Allison Darrahill
1 year
@wilsonvance @kcyimby Somebody had a different opinion than you on Twitter so you feel they are compelled to dox themselves
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
Overall, I like seeing our city move forward. We just need to be responsible stewards of the public money we give out so we don't find ourselves in another P&L situation owing 100s of millions in bonds we have no hope of repaying without cutting services or raising taxes.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@DudleyNYC @the_transit_guy No, this is a bad thing. There is an area ready for redevelopment that's empty lots but the royals proposed demolishing local businesses in the arts district for the stadium instead.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
And that's before you even get into how much of downtown still closes at 5pm or is only open for lunch. I know the crossroads and river market are much better about this but it's weird walking around the downtown loop and the only area open is PNL.
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Allison Darrahill
1 month
@StgnCarlXII @StatisticUrban The Ozarks are far too big on your map. They don't go over the Mississippi river out of Missouri or Arkansas because the Mississippi valley is flatlands and the Ozarks is hill country. It should only be southern Missouri and northern Arkansas
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@CBQ_Fanatic Imagine how much better KC would be with one, might make the suburbs here tolerable
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
In a nutshell, nothing will fundamentally change at Arrowhead.
@Chiefs
Kansas City Chiefs
3 months
Arrowhead Stadium is the iconic heartbeat of Chiefs Kingdom - full of history, amazing memories, and so many more good times to come. Our vision is to elevate our unrivaled fan experience for the next generation of fans with improvements across all levels inside, new activation
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Allison Darrahill
5 months
@CBQ_Fanatic This trip to the grocery store I make twice a month is basically impossible on the bus outside of weekdays and even that would be 5x the trip time.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
I've been very much pro development and building new housing and amenities for urban kc. Encouraging development is good for our city by creating new taxable value in the areas that are net generators of revenue for the city to sustain our services into the future.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@rustbeltenjoyer @crystalqueer417 We have Whataburger because we have one of the world's most famous Texans residing here currently.
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Allison Darrahill
9 months
@ZOE_SEQNC @oncloud_e if you think you are boymoding here you are sorely mistaken
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@mu93161629 It's pretty obvious why Kansas too, KC was not averse to annexing Missouri side white flight suburbs wherever they could. Building them in JoCo instead guaranteed they would never be forced back into KC.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@STBikesKC They should unshelve it and put it into action. It'd be really nice to not play frogger in 45 mph traffic there to get to the bakery or kobi q.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@the_transit_guy It was beaten by a strange coalition of suburban people afraid of downtown and city people that hated the baseball stadium location destroying small businesses.
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Allison Darrahill
1 month
@BarryJamesT @tomflood1 I think that's a perfectly reasonable ask for a recreational field that is near peoples homes
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@DudleyNYC @the_transit_guy They were supposed to replace these parking lots with a stadium and housing that would connect to the other side of the interstate which is a historically segregated neighborhood. Instead they're demolishing ~20 small businesses and the star building the city subsidized building.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@Patatrans @ChrisBWithYou @gothgirl_prelaw In this country it's about every 4 months give or take. But most people don't know that because they don't show up to vote regularly.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@milesintransit1 Kansas City used to have its own goose Island before the river changed course
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
P&L is really the only project that has not held up and that is because the city holds hundreds of millions of dollars of bonds that tax revenue from P&L isn't covering.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@rustbeltenjoyer I'm just struggling to understand what possible reason there could be for that third one
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
I even like the mega projects I joked about before, I think union station, Kaufman, convention center, T-Mobile have been pretty good for our city.
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Allison Darrahill
1 month
@jb_reefer @watn_tarnation Small nitpick but Shawnee and Mission are two separate cities. They're also weird picks because mission is mostly neighborhoods and one fairly walkable commercial street that has a transit center on it.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@TanaSW73 @RyanMarino Well one of the uses is narcolepsy to make people feel awake, so perhaps because they were all getting no sleep and needed something more than a cup of joe to keep them awake
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@AndyAdventuring What I'm talking about
@urbanlab_kc
UrbanLab KC
3 months
Pretty hard to do a donut at an intersection like this.
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Allison Darrahill
5 months
@MannyAbarcaIV None of this is an actual agreement, not to mention the team hasn't disclosed the location for the ballpark which is very important for some voters as to whether to approve the tax. You should be ashamed to sell this deal so hard without any actual concrete agreement in place.
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
@ThunderWolf08 This whole thing is boggling too because Illinois is obviously doing this to increase speeds and frequency on the corridor and have spent several billion now up and down it with well documented reasoning. Fully bad faith interpretation from the start and ignorant to boot.
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Allison Darrahill
1 month
@zos54731225 @weather_forkast @climatetransit I don't really NJB ever saying London was unique in any way in its sucking. Just an example he was familiar with that illustrates his points on NA cities
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@jrwspringfield @celisa_mia They're losing taxes from the properties existing there already that will become tax exempt once acquired for the stadium.
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Allison Darrahill
1 month
@BarryJamesT @tomflood1 A lot of recreational softball leagues only let you get a few home runs per inning to make the games more competitive so that's not that strange really
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@UnconConven Totally agree with you, actually, skyline is way better, city is in a much better place.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@jspence1234 Sports guys finding out KC politics only requires a few dozen people in matching shirts chanting to move the needle in big ways
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Allison Darrahill
5 months
@JusticeHorn_ The fact that Manny Abarca's brain is melting at the idea of needing these commitments before putting it on the ballot is all the more reason you should be sitting in that seat.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@Anthony_Hugo98 @Kylesfunhavings I would hate to be anybody who works second or third shift hours living here. When I used to work second shift in retail I would often go grocery shopping at like 11 or 12 at night after getting off work. And you just can't do that here unless you get in the car and drive.
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Allison Darrahill
1 year
@SaphyChaos @eff_hey It is, we have revised our popular telling of history to exclude the parts about our fascists supporting the Nazis and a sizable minority here wanting to help Germany in that war.
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Allison Darrahill
2 years
@tengoningunidea @kcyimby In reality the government spends millions to subsidize both of them, just insidiously more on the right one long term.
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
@Staircasedesign @STBikesKC @Justin__Short Why don't you direct that towards the governor @GovParsonMO who controls the gun laws and the police department.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@chris_stritzel The problem Berkeley has is that it's not a very good park, I think if they put more effort into it and made it more like E.H. Young in Riverside it would see a lot more usage than it does now.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@CBQ_Fanatic Bleeds into what they think makes people want to live here too which is weird
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@KCSportsTEC It would be disingenuous if KC tenants was advocating for those things but they seem to be pretty clearly against using tax payer money for the stadium at all. Which is consistent with their opposition to using tax money for incentives on residential developments in the past.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@ghraim @POISONOMICON @postoctobrist Oh don't worry they got those "former" Nazis too
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Allison Darrahill
1 month
@SusanKipper @WesKCMO The Northland is a net recipient of city taxes.
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
@CBQ_Fanatic I cannot get over how nice this must have been, when I lived in Volker the crossings were so bad I would jaywalk because it was quicker and also felt way safer.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@CBQ_Fanatic Like clearly p&l was good for cordish but idk how much of downtowns renaissance can really be attributed to it versus union station and city market renovations and the general desire of younger generations to exist in the city.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@RPMang @UnconConven My point was a joke I made in person to my spouse and tweeted with the expectation some of my irl friends would see it and laugh. I didn't expect it to be seen by anybody else because I don't have many followers and I'm not an influencer.
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Allison Darrahill
1 year
@streetcargood literally built by trains lmao
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@sgtlaughter @KCTV5 Correct they did and they still play MIAA there every year. Women's big 12 did move to sprint center though
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Allison Darrahill
9 years
@JoshDollar3 You should feel ugly
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
@ThunderWolf08 I love Missouri dearly, KC and Stl are incredible cities improving every day. However, our state is actively hostile to both cities and continues to get worse for women, PoC and lgbt people which necessitates it being considered a bottom state.
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
End wokeness is a piece of shit who has no idea about our city and is trying to divide us. He doesn't care about the kids in the hospital or the fact that our lax gun laws brought this tragedy to our door step along with the nearly 200 gun deaths we had just last year.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@Anthony_Hugo98 @Kylesfunhavings I can't believe that there are still suburbs around here with 24/7 grocery stores and there's not even a 24/7 corner store in walking distance in the CBD.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
Incredible thread if you want to peak into the mind of the median voter and their misunderstanding of taxes and land policy.
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Among the Wildflowers
3 months
Once you pay off your house and/or land, you shouldn’t have to keep paying property taxes. Owning should mean just that- owning!
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Allison Darrahill
5 months
@TomGerend @NFL It's a good rule, the end zone is the other teams territory so fumbling there is the worst place to fumble. It is a fitting punishment for losing the ball in the end zone because it emphasizes the risk of extending to score and works because all you have to do is hit the pylon
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Allison Darrahill
26 days
@CBQ_Fanatic I can't believe how much mask-off racism people will post about a generic apartment
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@AndyAdventuring And yet that didn't stop this guy's donut from sliding riiiiight through them. Narrowing the general traffic lanes with hard borders and replacing the turn lane with a median would make this functionally impossible in a way paint never will.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@chapinthecity @CBQ_Fanatic @transit_simp It is a heart, w'ere in the heart of America
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Allison Darrahill
24 days
@mattstephenskc @wattasecond @clmarohn In the case of inner ring suburbs in JaCo large parts of them have crumbling infrastructure so I don't think that is a good indicator. Huge swaths of raytown, Grandview and West Independence are in bad shape compared to their eastern neighbors.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@hsrgood @CBQ_Fanatic It's kinda pricey that's why I haven't, you could almost certainly get it from your local library
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@CBQ_Fanatic @StoneSkyline Also not original is probably the donut shop inside of it lol
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@CBQ_Fanatic And residential growth downtown has more to do with all the empty factors and office buildings that are much easier to convert to residential than the three new residential towers.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
Big surprise the state that said they couldn't afford education funding a decade ago can't give the chiefs a billion dollars
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Daniel Caudill
2 months
NEW: Gov. Laura Kelly says she's not trying to recruit the Kansas City Chiefs to Kansas. “My guess is we would never have more in (the sports betting fund) than would attract a concession stand from Arrowhead – much less the Chiefs." #ksleg
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Allison Darrahill
6 months
@turkana__boy @trevoracorn Westside already has mansions going in, if we had better zoning they could be multiple units of housing but instead it's million dollar houses.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@CBQ_Fanatic @StoneSkyline I like the reuse, feels like it keeps it more a part of the city's culture that way. It's more beloved to more people than just foamers that way.
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Allison Darrahill
5 days
Average purple suburb democrat
@Ncscienceg4381
Ncscienceguy
11 days
What party am I in if I’m: Pro-choice Pro gun control Against tax increases Pro-vaccine Against lockdowns Pro death penalty Against genocide Pro-car (I believe CC is irreversible) Anti-big cities Anti-train Supportive of the LGBT community Anti-Trump and Biden
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@CantEverDie Chicago expanding into its rightful territory on lake Michigan???
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Allison Darrahill
3 years
@AffordAnything I really doubt it, Trump doesn't seem to care about his supporters past their ability to keep him in the White House.
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
@ziplamak Abundantly clear who is spouting fox news talking points clearly being cross applied from other places and have no idea how our city works. These people should stop talking about us if they can't even learn the first thing about us.
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
@STBikesKC All the cops out there directing traffic and they can't just keep the cars off main street. It's pathetic and disappointing from this city once again prioritizing suburbanites in cars.
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@jrwspringfield @celisa_mia Remains to be seen, new Busch hasn't generated any development of significance outside of its bp district. It's surrounded by surface parking lots. Cincinnati's two stadiums haven't drawn enough development to fill the four block stretch between them either.
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
@CBQ_Fanatic World champs again! Makes it hard to leave this place when it's so energetic
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@CBQ_Fanatic @Kylesfunhavings But that's more of a symptom of main needing to be a transitway with no private vehicle access than the street closures. The mayor seems to be pushing that way with the changes he has pushed for with the extension to have dedicated lanes
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Allison Darrahill
5 months
@hawkjay01 @STBikesKC How to tell you never ride the bus
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@_chandler_____ I mean it won't though. The south loop park project is a separate PPP that has been in planning for years now.
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Allison Darrahill
4 months
@Jeremy_Danner @emh1729 Also people here actually like here, helps her case a lot
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
@CBQ_Fanatic And land then was so devalued it was basically free until you built a railroad on it anyway
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Allison Darrahill
2 months
Bleak picture of public subsidies for sports and the fantasy of revitalization via ballpark district.
@RiverfrontTimes
Riverfront Times
2 months
New: The Cardinals are gearing up for a big ask for more public funding for Busch Stadium. The team president compares the potential scale of the project to two other franchises that each obtained more than $500M in public funds for stadium upgrades.
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Allison Darrahill
3 months
@WillCorker @ThePatMcKelvey @BrianMcGannon New Orleans somehow managed to shape the culture of the entire country without a baseball team. LA survived as a world class city for thirty years while its football teams were robbed from it. NYC has managed to be a top world city while its teams live in NJ. Think we'll live
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