Is The Luminary Light Burnt Out?

Where is the Parkville Luminary Papers that once occupied the newsstands around town? There are none to be found anywhere, none at the stores, none at Park University, none at Patriots Bank, none at the restaurants, and none in the newsstands at all. It is like the Parkville Luminary just ceased to exist. The last date on the Parkville Luminary online site is January 30 2010. Is it possible that the Luminary is out of Business? I even tried looking for the other Luminary’s You Tube channel and low and behold it doesn’t exist. Mark, what’s up? Did you run out of cash? Did your investors get tired of the lack of profitable returns? Here it is the middle of February and still no cage liners and fish wrap from you at all. Are you on vacation from the monotony that is your daily life? Did your significant other find out about one of your extramarital affairs?

Is there any other reason that you haven’t printed the paper yet? Are you out of funds, have you considered a government bailout? Has your family realized that you are crazy and had you committed for treatment? Well whatever the reason I am going to miss the issues of your paper that I was hoping to use for my paper mache projects that I was going to use on the target range. When I asked about this recent development with Tom Hutsler, he responded, “there is good news when there is no news from the Parkville Luminary.” Is this the end of the Parkville Luminary, I don’t know, there is still the Parkville Luminary online account, and it is still on twitter.com; but nothing in a printed paper format.

I will still be on the look out for any other developments on this story.

How corrupt is it?

Rumor has it that the Parkville Birdcage Liner has labeled the Parkville Old Towne Market Community Improvement District (POTMCID), "the most corrupt organization this side of Kansas City, Kansas." This may not be the exact quote since, like most folks, I have not (and do not) read the Birdcage Liner. If the POTMCID is the most corrupt, then the rest of the organizations in Missouri are, by extension, beyond angelic...godlike, in fact. When Kevin Heaton, the owner of the Stone Canyon Pizza Company and board member of the POTMCID, was asked what he thought about the statements in the Birdcage Liner he reportedly said, "I don't read that rag."

Other POTMCID board members, when asked their thoughts, said they had not seen the issue in question and most shrugged it off as meaningless drivel. One board member said it was "just more shit at the bottom of the cage."

We have formally asked the POTMCID District Manager, Carol Kuhns, to put us on the official media notification list of board meetings. She told us that she has recently sent out a blanket email to local, regional and national media informing them that since the POTMCID has not received any previous requests for meeting notifications that each of the emailed organizations should respond in writing or by email to be put on the email notification list. She also told us that even though no local media has previously asked for notification that most that have an interest have seen notices posted elsewhere or have gotten personal (official?) notification from other POTMCID board members.

John Kuhns, the POTMCID Treasurer, has reportedly requested of the Main Street Parkville Association (MSPA) that POTMCID information be posted on the http://www.parkvillemo.org/ web site. The information, reportedly, will include information on how to apply to the POTMCID for grants, frequently asked questions (FAQs), and, yes, meeting notices. Further, the web page will supposidly have PDFs of the official grant application forms that can be downloaded. There will also be a complete list of the POTMCID board members and their contact information.

WAG