Cities throughout metro celebrate the Fourth
- 11:11 PM CDT
For Portia Woods, the river was the place to be on Friday, but people had their choice of festivities across the metro area to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Talk about lousy timing. Just when the developer of a Kansas-side public aquarium lines up key tax breaks for his project, Kansas City eco-devo types announce they’re putting together their own aquarium proposal because, gee, KC simply can’t do without its own big fish tank.
This will come as welcome news to anyone who lives or does business along Troost Avenue and who has been inconvenienced by the street closing at 85th Street.
Keith Leake started taking his son, Alan, to Valley View United Methodist Church’s evening care program 29 years ago.
My opinions about music are as archaic as my ideas about language, manners and work. I despise the contemporary notion that one way of spelling is as good as another, that subject-verb agreement is unimportant, or that the street argot is a reasonable substitute for proper speech.
Maybe Monday was just a bad day for Sarah Steelman. For her sake, she had better hope it was. That day the Missouri treasurer and wannabe governor appeared before the Chamber of Commerce here and gave a speech that ranged from college affordability to Missouri’s growing life sciences industry.
For Portia Woods, the river was the place to be on Friday, but people had their choice of festivities across the metro area to celebrate the Fourth of July.
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