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It’s going to be a short week for many Kansas as we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday.
If we dig deep enough, we can give thanks for many blessings. But a national poll found that 66% of Americans say concern about the economy and emerging costs are affecting their Thanksgiving plans.
Political news The Hill has compiled prices for its holiday party and reports that Thanksgiving dinner will charge 20% more this year.
Now know why the offers on your in-laws’ party table are a little smaller than normal.
Also keep in mind that more stores are ready for Thanksgiving this year. This includes Hy-Vee and Walmart.
Hy-Vee CEO Jeremy Havech said it’s the first time in the company’s 92-year history that all of its retail outlets will be closed on Thanksgiving. He called the resolution a small gesture of thanks to staff members who endured two of the most painful and difficult years in the grocery industry.
That’s when, once every 4 years, you hear sportscasters around the world shouting “GGGOOOAAALLL” for what turns out to be a minute or more.
It’s the World Cup. . . and crowds are expected in the Power
The U. S. men’s team. USA returns to the soccer level for the first time in 8 years. EE. UU. no managed to qualify for the tournament in 2018.
Team USA’s first game. USA in this World Cup is my home country, Wales.
But you don’t have to travel 7,000 miles to Qatar to watch the games. You can see all the action on the 40-foot-wide, 18-foot-tall outdoor display in KC Live in the Power
And unlike Qatari fans, you can drink beer while watching.
This afternoon’s match at 1 p. m.
This is one of the 4 follow-up nights planned this week.
KC Live will also broadcast Tuesday’s match between Mexico and Poland. This match starts at 10 am.
You can watch the United States’ match against England on Friday and Mexico’s match against Argentina on Saturday afternoon.
If you’re not watching the World Cup, there are plenty of other sporting occasions waiting for you this Thanksgiving week.
The biggest fit is the Sunflower Showdown between KU and K-State. And this year, it will be a national showcase. The Kansas football game will air on Fox Sports as a prime-time night game.
You can watch it at 7pm. this Saturday.
And the Chiefs are at Arrowhead Stadium.
The Chiefs host the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. It’s an afternoon match. The start is at 15:25.
For many Kansas citizens, Thanksgiving has the official Christmas launch.
This Thursday is the rite of the Country Club Plaza. And this year’s celebrated rocker is Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
If you don’t want to wait, the actual smooth transfer will take place at 6:52 p. m. m. de Thanksgiving night.
The holiday spirit continues at the Crown Center with the mayor’s Christmas tree.
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas will deliver the transfer Friday in a one-hour ceremony, which will begin at 5:30 p. m.
And if traveling downtown seems too complicated, you can feast on thousands of holiday lighting fixtures at Overland Park Arboretum.
You can walk through acres of candlelit winter forests, while singers sing to you as you sip a hot grog or other festive drink.
The Overland Park Arboretum Luminary Walk begins Friday night and will take place Dec. 17.
The local fitness is on alert for the fourth straight week of battered emergency rooms and urgent care centers.
While persistent COVID cases are a factor, the most recent increase is largely due to virulent strains of influenza and other respiratory infections.
The company that handles hospital transfers in the Kansas City metro reports up to 4 times more requests for bed space. And there are fewer doctors and nurses to care for them.
An estimated 15% fewer people work in Kansas City hospitals than before the pandemic. Many retired early or left the box due to exhaustion.
Children’s Mercy Hospital has reached capacity. Last week, 15 young people were on a waiting list for open beds.
Children’s Mercy has joined several other pediatric hospitals in calling on the federal government to declare a public fitness emergency to address emerging cases of respiratory infections.
A big party is an opportune time to bury bad news.
Companies announce layoffs when they think fewer people are paying attention. Political leaders could this time give the green light to unpopular new laws or ordinances when the media is less monitored. And judges can make decisions in contentious instances in an effort to restrict public reaction.
Which brings us to the explosive and debatable factor of police investment in Kansas City.
It’s about to get very complicated.
Just hours after Missouri’s electorate approved a state amendment requiring Kansas City to spend more cash on its police force, Mayor Quinton Lucas filed a legal challenge claiming the measure is unconstitutional.
While a ruling on the case is possible this week, members of the Board of Police Commissioners have now filed a separate complaint alleging that Kansas City “prepared the books. “
The lawsuit argues that the mayor intentionally underestimated his budget, so he will have to donate less of his earnings to the Kansas City Police Department.
The countersuit alleges that the city is cheating by intentionally omitting developer grants and other budget items.
Could there be a court ruling on this case, since most of us are going on vacation?
Lucas says that if the lawsuit is successful, it can freeze progress in the city and potentially undo the incentive team designed to attract new business.
It may also seriously complicate Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman’s new plans to move the team to a new $2 billion downtown ballpark.
The stakes are high as we enter this Thanksgiving week.
A cat has lives.
Mission Gateway’s assignment in Johnson County has had more than that.
He came here more times than Jason did on “Friday the 13th. “
But this week, the Mission City Council promises a final resolution on the maximum assets besieged and cursed in the subway.
Will councillors vote tonight to approve a new tax incentive after 16 years of false starts and damaged promises?
It’s hard enough to know what they’re voting for.
Is it a new mecca of promised entertainment?A hotel?Apartments?
In any case, it is difficult for local electees not to say yes to a lighter and narrower form of editing of a plan.
To do otherwise would be the unthinkable. Discard the entire half-completed assignment next to Shawnee Mission Parkway and start over.
It’s flattering.
The Nutcracker’s Kansas City Ballet is in the national highlight this week as it kicks off a special week-long engagement at the Kennedy Center in Washington D. C.
Kansas City’s first dance corporation will hold seven performances at the prominent theater one mile from the White House before returning to Kansas City for their vacation at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
If you’re near downtown this week, you can hear thousands of Kansas citizens making a song with the lyrics of “Desperado” and “Take it Easy. “
Those are the Eagles flying into the city.
Fifty years after their first appearance in Kansas City, the band will return with a full orchestra and choir to perform their 1976 album, “Hotel California,” as well as some of their other memorable hits from “Take It to the Limit. “to “Tequila Amanecer. “
You can watch the Eagles at the T-Mobile Center this Wednesday night.
Nick Haines follows the week’s most shocking local news on “Kansas City Week in Review” on Friday at 7:30 p. m. m. en PBS Kansas City.
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