I want inclusionary zoning for (only) bigfoot single family homes, the least affordable and sustainable building form. Like, want to build over 2,000 sqft? Then you gotta make a contribution to the affordable housing fund.

John Oliver said “Reagan talking points from a Whole Foods crowd” — I think that is in reference to homelessness but it works here too.

4. Finally, the old Redemptorist building was reopened in 2006 as a Cristo Rey HS, serving the fastest growing Catholic demographic in the region: upwardly mobile Latinos

You can see the shift outward on this map. JaCo's middle class families have now moved on from both the inner city and the first ring of suburbs (Raytown, South KC, Independence). Both LS and Blue Springs are growing sources of St Michaels enrollment.

3. Four decades later, the center of gravity of Catholic HS students had shifted again, as Raytown's aging housing stock lost favor with middle class families.

O'Hara was replaced in 2017 by St Michaels in Lees Summit, the next ring of suburbs.

2. By 1965, freeway and mortgage-access-driven suburbanization and neighborhood demographic change were taking a bite out of school enrollment. The archdiocese built a new school, O'Hara, on the border with the fast-growing suburb of Raytown.

I wish they broke out ebooks from other online resources. Curious if this is an indication that people are reading less

The real problem with this platform isn't that it's politics posters are annoying scolds. It's that no normies have moved over. If you're on social media to see fun things (sports, pop culture, dumb humor), this platform sucks.

I'd love to see opinion polling on this idea. "we're not going after you, just reckless psychos" could really work

The average restaurant here is not as good as the average DC restaurant (though that may be a cultural divide as much as a quality divide—I have unusual tastes) but the very best are very, very good

Every midsized plus metro is like this. For example: I have been extremely pleasantly surprised by KC’s food scene.

That's offset by the small number of people in that geographic area though. If you draw a simple 500km circle around KC we come in 34th of the 40 largest metros for population.

A useful reminder that population growth is not guaranteed: St Louis lost more than 3,000 additional people last year

Shawnee +460, +2294 from 2020
Independence +569, -1216 (!!!) from 2020
Liberty +409, +1021 from 2020

...

Raytown +108, -703 from 2020
Prairie Village +68, -39 from 2020

KCK added 2284 and is now +450 residents from 2020
Lees Summit +2156, +4847 from 2020
Olathe +1890, +7475 from 2020
Overland Park +1670, +5041 from 2020
Lenexa +1023, +1898 from 2020
Raymore +674, +2941 from 2020
Blue Springs +655, +2366 from 2020
Gardner +491, +2408 from 2020