Central States NEWS: Whirlpool Appliance Plant in Fort Smith AR To Close

The Fort Smith Arkansas Whirlpool Corporation facility opened as a Norge Appliances Co. plant in 1962- becoming a Whirlpool plant in 1966.

As late as 2006- 4600 people had jobs at the plant.

At the end of 2010- the number of employees had fallen to 1120.

As reported today by The FORT SMITH (AR) TIMES-RECORD- the Whirlpool plant will be closing in mid-2012.


Production of some product lines made at the Fort Smith plant will be moved to other plants in Iowa and Ohio as well as a plant in Mexico.


No word if any of the 1120 or so unemployed plant employees will be offered jobs at the Iowa- Ohio ... or Mexico plants.

CSW BREAKING: Vehicle Crashes Into KC-MO Northland Taco Bell

At 6:18 p.m. Wednesday evening- KC-MO emergency services began responding to 2825 Northeast Vivion Road on the report that a vehicle had crashed into a building there.

That building reportedly is a Taco Bell fast-food restaurant.

There was no report of any injuries to the vehicle's occupants or Taco Bell patrons/employees.

Central States News: Missouri Food Plant Gives In to Muslim Workers' Religious Demands

The SPRINGFIELD (MO) NEWS-LEADER has a story today about a food plant in Noel MO who made some sort of arrangement with some of it's workers regarding prayer time during work hours.


The Tyson plant saw 130 employees- Muslims and many of those Somalis- walk off the job last Friday because the plant didn't give them their "required" five daily prayer-times.

Help me out dear reader- 'cause I see something Nasty in Noel here...

I get hired by someone to do a specific job(s) for a specific time and so I know going in to that new job what hours and days I'll be working- say on Sundays.

Only later- AFTER I get hired- I decide I want the Sabbath and other times I deem religious off.


In the America I USED to know and love- I think with that demand I'd be looking for ANOTHER job- but then logic and common sense has been thrown out- baby- bathwater and all....

Surprise! Corporate Welfare Wanted For Proposed Liberty MO Apartment Complex

Very little- if anything- gets built in America anymore without the developer first getting some sort of tax break- i.e.- corporate welfare.


So goes the story from The LIBERTY (MO) TRIBUNE- that developer "MACO Development Company" will build a 48-unit apartment complex for the elderly in the Clay County seat- but ONLY if the State of Missouri approves corporate welfare ("tax credits").




Did you ever really wonder why- in a deadened economy- your property taxes keep going UP?

Hey University of Missouri: LEAVE The Big 12 Already!

The news is getting wearysome and tedious- MU is leaving the Big 12- but won't say exactly when...

MU- why don't you bail-out- like- YESTERDAY!

If the dollar signs are so friggin' big in front of your greedy eyes- go wallow in the SEC IMMEDIATELY as in PLEASE-Leave-NOW- so what is left of the Big 12 can re-organize and get their house in order.

CSW Weather: Little Rain in Kansas City- But Snow in Denver

This morning's light showers and thundershowers produced amount of mostly one-tenth of an inch or less Metrowide.

This rain- while welcome- did little to break the prolonged dry spell that extends back to middle-September.

Meanwhile about 600 miles to our west- that great City of Denver Colorado is seeing the freezy- skid-stuff known as snow.

There are travel advisories and warnings today for those areas- and you can see by some traffic camera views around Denver just how winter can come early- and quick- to those just this side of The Great Divide.

CSW BREAKING: Maryville MO Residents- Boil Your Tapwater Today (October 26)

Residents of that northwestern Missouri city are advised by their city leaders to boil any and all tapwater today- according to The MARYVILLE (MO) DAILY FORUM.


There is a switchover of water pumps in Maryville- and the request from the water company is that residents first boil their drinking water as an "advisory-" not a boil order.

MetroRegion Kansas City NEWS: Flood-Weary Citizens Blast Army Corps of Engineers at St. Joseph Meeting

If the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (CoE) was looking at sympathy- there wasn't any to be found at a meeting the Corps held with citizens in St. Joseph on Tuesday.


The ST. JOSEPH (MO) NEWS-PRESS reports that 300 people packed the meeting area and vented their frustrations toward CoE regarding the Corps-caused Missouri River Flood of 2011 and the Corps seeming lack of money to repair or replace damaged levees and infrastructure.

Yet- the CoE has money to buy land!

With this being just another government brick in the wall- do you STILL wonder why Americans are protesting in the streets?

With Proposal To Demolish Kemper Arena It's Official- KC-MO Is Governed By Idiots

Before the really unnecessary Sprint Center arena was built- I didn't like the plans...

It actually had FEWER seats than the arena it was replacing- Kemper- which I thought was a perfectly good venue (big deal- it wasn't DOWNTOWN!).

Never mind that less than 10 years earlier- the City of KC-MO spent millions to upgrade the Kemper- only to leave it sit unused and languish after the Sprint was opened.


Now- according to this story in the KANSAS CITY BUSINESS JOURNAL- the city leaders(?) have a asinine proposal to tear down Kemper- yes- that building we still owe more than $10-million on for the 1990's "upgrades-" and build yet ANOTHER white elephant/taxpayer-dollars-hole there.

Let's see- there that $10+-million still owed on Kemper- another $10-mil to knock it down- then ANOTHER $50-million or so to put up another tax-dollar drain.

I'm telling you folks- POLITICIANS NEED PRE-OFFICE DRUG-TESTING!!!

CSW Commerntary: American Government Loves Protests Elsewhere- But Not Here!

Don't you love the irony?

The American government is/was sooooo upbeat when citizens elsewhere protest the actions of their government- while here in America- military-armed police forces are clearing out protesters who are not happy about the goings-on here in good old United Corporate States of America.

Trouble is- this is nothing new.

I remember like yesterday the Vietnam War protest days- how the so-called 'Establishment' railed against it's young people's protest of a war that was only later to be confirmed to be a lie.

I too well remember Herr Daley's actions in Chicago in 1968 and the Kent State Murders (yes- they WERE government/military-cleared murders!) of 1970 when it came to The People taking it to the streets.



You can't have it both ways people- EITHER this IS America where the people have a RIGHT- no A DUTY to speak out against the wrongs of the ruling/corporate class- or it's some sort of socialist society where speaking out against such things are forbidden.


Your Captain totally supports the (non-violent) "Occupy" movement- and I frankly wondered why it took THIS long for we- The People- to take it to the streets and protest just how F-Ued our American government REALLY is!

CSW BREAKING: Natural Gas Line Break Outside Olathe Medical Center

Olathe fire crews are working a potentially serious situation- a 4-inch gas line has broken just outside the emergency room of Olathe Medical Center.


So far- there's no word on any evacuations of the complex located just west of Interstate 35 on 151st Street- but the odor of natural gas has been reported in parts of the medical center- including "the boiler room.


The situation was resolved about an hour later without incident or injury.