I still remember that late October 1985 drive down J.C. Nichols Parkway in the Plaza.
The Kansas City Royals had just won the World Series.
A solid line of cars with residents from every reach of Metro Kansas City giving high-fives to motorists lined up going the other direction.
That's really the last time I've seen anything resembling Metropolitan cohesiveness.
I was raised in this area quite proud of what Metro Kansas City stood for then- for truly- "everything WAS up-to-date in Kansas City."
That was pre-1975 thinking. It's not that way anymore.
Lately- it's like it's every Metro community in for themselves.
No! We don't want to help you pay for the pro teams' stadium improvements.
No! We don't want to help with ANY Metro public transportation- let alone light rail.
No! We don't want to extend ourselves to help make the WHOLE of Metro K.C. a better place to live- work and play.
This town is doomed to obscurity with those kind of attitudes.
World-class metro? HA-HA! Not even Podunk-class with the attitudes of Metro leaders.
Kansas city-MO's citizens can no longer soley afford to keep providing the amenities that make this area "big league."
We need suburbias help- that is- if they indeed even CARE about Metro Kansas City.
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