INSIDER INFO and ABOUT
US:
Please refrain from reading this blog if you do
not have a sense of humor. And if you are not a registered voter?
Seriously…don’t even think about commenting here.
All news tips
shared via our email are off the record and confidential-- by default. Please
share any facts via email,
kcmopost@gmail.com. We cannot chase comments made via pen
name. Provide a rock to look under, facts, sources or phone numbers.
ABOUT US:
Launched
in September 2015, KCMOPost.com is a local site covering the city of
Kansas City MO. It features discerning commentary on local news,
plus surveys and profiles. It is a sister site to JoCoPost.com,
which is about Johnson County Ks, the most successful suburb and business
community in the Midwest. Our two coffee mug logo designs are by
Brand Central Marketing, www.bc-marketing.com.
KCMOPost.com falls somewhere between the national phenom that is
Huffington Post and the greatly respected ‘micro/mini’ site covering just
the northeast corner of Johnson County, the PVPost. Since the KC Star
dropped the local ball, we so admire the yeoman’s work primarily covering
KCMO news as performed by Tony Botello at www.tonyskansascity.com.
However, KCMOPost.com allows no mean boy anonymous comments, no N. words
and no half naked ladies.
The parent company of KCMOPost is
JoCoPost LLC, a Kansas corporation. Tracy Thomas writes the site from
Shawnee. A third generation writer in the style of Dave Barry and
Maureen Dowd (don’t we wish) , she is the Doubleday author of“Right
Here in River City” with the late Walt Bodine in 1976; former
publisher of the KC Media Guide; ad agency exec since 1974; writer,
producer and strategic media buyer nationally for memorable direct
response radio campaigns that overcome inertia. A brain theory
copywriter, Thomas is a metaphysical painter/sculptor and collector of
newly emerging artists and makers. Formerly she interned with the
NEA and was arts administrator for both KCMO and KCK. She co-founded
the 1000 member Kansas City Artists Coalition; the Church of Religious
Science; and KC-NAWBO. She once served a brief period in Hell
on her local HOA association board. Her second visit to Hell was as an
elected official for five years, serving on the Shawnee City Council. She
ran for Chairman of the Johnson County Commission in 2002. While
unsuccessful, she did beat the commissioner famed for throwing onion rings
at waitresses-- with the tacit approval of the eventual winner, Annabeth
Surbaugh. Tracy’s hobbies include working for free to defeat tax
increases, independent film festivals and raising two red F1B double bred
19 pound petite miniature goldendoodles, Wonder and Clue. When they
misbehave, she remarks, “No Wonder; No Clue”.
COMMENTER POLICIES
Your
registration is confidential. You may use a pen name. No
Anonymous comments. We moderate and remove comments that are
beyond the pale. Stay on topic. If you have an issue re photos or
copyrights, just email us, kcmopost@gmail.com.
If we need to add a credit or remove a story or untrue fact, that’s the
best way to alert us. We honor the DCMA Policy.
No Kicking the Dead Policy:
Unlike two local blogs, (KCConfidential and JimmyCSays), JoCoPost.com will
NOT publish negative stories or tolerate mean comments about the
immediately departed. You gotta beef? Kick ‘em now before they kick
the bucket, or wait at least 60 days.
PROFILES
We feature KCMO movers
and shakers: Real quotes subject only to length. Our series of
questions is a hybrid blend culled from Bernard Pivot/Inside the Actors
Studio; The Pitch and the greatest magazine ever, Vanity Fair.
Please submit names for our most popular and revealing section, the
Profile. You may self- nominate. Or your boss; a friend; someone
you’ve always wanted to know more about—but don’t even know. A mover; a
shaker…or perhaps a mover who shakes. In Profiles (only) we promise
straight quotes; not to criticize or condemn. Don’t wait for your
obituary. Why force loved ones and co-workers to guess what you thought or
believed or what drove you? Share now.
COLLECTABLES:
We produce and sell ‘limited edition collectable art’, including our
bumper sticker series of 10” x 3” four color artworks on adhesive vinyl.
Edition #1 is a numbered limited edition of 150 in the world. As the
Donald says, “That is huge, as you know.” The Trump/elChapo bumper
sticker #1 could become as collectable as Dewey Defeats Truman.
Sticker #2 is Deflated Hillary Clinton and Tom Brady, for
patriotically protecting their emails, at ALL costs. Sticker #3 is Trump/Washington:
You’re Fired. Don’t live a life of regret. Collect the series.
Maybe make up for that nestegg that Wall Street stole from you and hid in
the Hamptons. To purchase, push the Get Stuff button on the home
page of KCMOPost.com.
Forget the wine, this collectable vinyl art
is the perfect gift, icebreaker for a boring Chamber luncheon, (yes we
know that’s redundant), or way to tease a family member. Put them on
their bumper in the parking lot…priceless. Can be mailed
anonymously. Undetectable by TSA officials rifling through your
luggage at the border.
SPONSORS:
If you make a product or offer a service, become a sponsor. Or even
write a sponsored link column weekly or monthly. Email kcmopost@gmail.com.
No tanning salons or casinos. If we don’t like you, we won’t take
your money. Honest.
GUEST COLUMNISTS:
Blogging or guest writing without a
site that is search-optimized (SEO) is just pissing into a Google-blind
wind. You might as well just shout over your neighbor’s fence in the
dark. Practice your writing craft under our
continually SEO optimized website. KCMOPost.com is designed and optimized
by BRAND CENTRAL, OP’s best local/national web designers, hosts and
optimizers for small business owners.
We invite seasoned reporters who have left the KC Star etc. to make
KCMOPost.com your outlet for sharing news, stories and commentary.
Who else in KCMO has your in-depth knowledge of politics, business,
science, education, the arts, sports, the community or the law--or the
ability to research and report? If you wish, we will publish you
unedited. And provide a personal copyright that is continually optimized
and searchable.
Our format supports your writing brand as a
national presence in your subjects of expertise and interest. Unless
you love being an entrepreneur, writing here is the best new way to
connect professionally with other publishers, careers or freelance
assignments. You paid your dues sitting through all those meetings,
honing your craft before the Mother Ship cut you loose. Tell it as
you see it. Ask about our model for compensation based on relevancy
and clicks. (Stories submitted by casual writers will be edited. Let’s
talk.) {updated 9/4/15.}
