|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
Kansas City News Today Kansas City Front Page is a weekly news publication, with daily updates, spotlighting attractions, events, business and hospitality in Kansas City. |
KANSAS CITY NEWS TODAY - Wednesday, November 7, 2007 
Medal of Honor Recipients Attend TriWest's Exhibit Preview During Veterans Day ActivitiesKANSAS CITY, MO (SLFP.com), October 28, 2007 - Four Medal of Honor recipients - including two from the greater Kansas City area - attended a special preview of TriWest Healthcare Alliance's Visions of Valor exhibit, a collection of dramatic black-and-white photographic portraits of surviving Medal of Honor recipients, as part of Veterans Day activities in Kansas City. TriWest Healthcare Alliance, serving the health care needs of military families in Missouri and 20 other western states, is bringing to Kansas City its traveling exhibit featuring 28 dramatic black-and-white portraits. A duplicate exhibit is on permanent display in the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes. "Visions of Valor honors the 3,445 brave men who have received the nation's highest honor for valor under enemy fire, and the exhibit echoes the values of patriotism and dedication to duty that are the military's finest traditions," said TriWest President and CEO David J. McIntyre, Jr. The exhibit will be on display through Jan. 6 in the museum's research center gallery for museum patrons. There are only 109 Medal of Honor recipients alive today, including Leavenworth residents Roger Donlon and Charles Hagemeister, who attended the special preview. Roger Donlon, Captain, U.S. Army, July 6, 1964, Vietnam; Charles Hagemeister, Specialist Fifth Class (then Specialist Fourth Class), U.S. Army, March 20, 1967, Vietnam; Robert Howard, 1st Lieutenant (then Sergeant First Class), U.S. Army, Dec. 30, 1968, Vietnam; and George Sakato, Private, U.S. Army, Oct. 29, 1944, France, World War II. 1 Cent Sales Tax for Capital Improvements Passes KANSAS CITY, (SLFP.com), November 7, 2007 - Voters have approved the renewal of the City of Kansas City's 1 cent sales tax for capital improvements. The proposal passed by an unofficial simple majority of 77.6% to 22.4%, extending the sales tax for 10 years. The current sales tax will expire at the end of 2008. The City's sales tax program currently raises about $68 million per year for street and bridge repairs, storm drainage, park improvements, community centers and other capital improvement projects. Kansas City Question #1 requires that 35 percent of revenues be dedicated to neighborhood improvement projects, a 10 percent increase from the previous tax. It also mandates that 15 percent of the tax revenues go to deferred infrastructure maintenance. The City's capital improvements program is guided by the Public Improvements Advisory Committee, a 13-member volunteer oversight group that receives, analyzes and prioritizes residents' requests for improvements. City neighborhood groups and residents have requested 3,720 improvements through the committee in the past five years. The committee sorts the requests and sets priorities for funding and makes recommendations to the City Council for final decisions on which projects to fund. The Council seldom changes the committee's recommendations. Under the sales tax program, about one-half of the total cost of capital improvements comes from city residents. About one-third of sales tax revenues come from people who don't live within the city limits. The sales tax income also triggers state and federal matching funds - about $25 million per year.   The Kansas City Front Page is owned and maintained by the Moore Design Group for the sole purpose of disseminating news and information about the Metropolitan Kansas City area. Text or graphics may not be copied, rewritten or distributed in any manner whatsoever without written permission. For more information, contact editor@slfp.com All rights reserved world wide © 2007 Moore Design Group. |
   |
