The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

I Eminem (left) will pMform In August In Kansas CttfcKan headlining th Kanrocksas Music Festival It also wUI feature (from kft) Flogging Molly Muse KldCudiandthe Flaming ifv PDAXSWEAThlER 1 i- ri 1 i a yv Home 1 FUNKHOUSER FAREWELL Opinion on legacy divided as he prepares to leave office The Initial Kanrocksas this summer wH offer two days of music on three stages In KCK By TIMOTHY FMN The Kansas City Star They will build a festival scene big enough to bold 100000 fans And starting to- dayorganizetti of the inaugural Kanrocksas Music Festival will begin to see whether their concert lineup which includes rapper Eminem is strong enough to draw that many fens The fes- (3) Go to tival will KansasOtyxom take place for video and a Aug 5 and 6 photo gallery at Kansas Speedway anodier recreational boost for western Kansas City Kan Monday afternoon at a press conference there organizers of the 1 festival announced part of its two-day rival's ticket price $179 for foe two-day pass with no service fees and foe amenities which include free camping and free parking foe past five years festivals have blown to become foe biggest musical experience" said concert promo- ter Chris Fritz "This is foe time Festivals are almost foe new music revolution" fritz and businessman SD Brandmeyer are presenting foe event as Brandmeyer Ftitz -Festivals along with Mammoth SEE KANROCKSAS AS A federal Judge players to return to work anytime soon as pie league promised it would appeal Bl liD DAVID EUUTT THE STAR Mark Funkhouser urges the new Kansas City mayor and council to confront real challenges FUnkhouser said A memorial pile of metal plates might be a fitting non-traditional tribute for a mayor who was definitely a non-traditional politician As Funkhouser winds down his mayoral term it seems as if already gone Ever since Sly James was elected March 22 he has been the man in demand Funkhouser has faded from foe public scene inten- SEE FUNKHOUSER A12 are to Mame for foe budget-basting cost of gasoline your money going to these when making record profits and you're paying near record prices at the puny)" he told his radio and online audience last weekend has to stop1 White House spokesman Jay Carney pushed the pedal to the metal even harder Morf-day Americans are going every day of foe week to their local gas station and filF SEEGASIA7 csns- 1 iaiAte 09 jiftedtheNFt locfeout Monday i4 but look for He's praised for focus on basic sendees In tho urban core criticized for not listening wolL By LYNN HORSLEY The Kansas City Star aimer Mayor Kay Barnes has a plaza at the Sprint Center named for her Former mayors Ihis Davis and Richard Berkley have parks in their naira Emanuel- Cleaver has a boulevard and Charlie Wheeler the downtown airport So what land mark will Mark Funldiouser get as his legacy after he leaves office at foe end of tins week? the monument that I intended from foe very beginning" he said that is a decent bond rating and relatively solid balance sheet" What about a sculpture made from those hated metal plates that pockmarked Kansas streets the ones Funkhouser vowed to remove? are gone thank Political voices gush as pump prices rise KEITH MYERSj THE KANSAS CITY STAR i on Mon- day as ha returned from a yearlong deployment to Africa At Scarborough Elamantary School In Olathe his daughter Hailey T1 leaped Into his arms I Story A4 Co to KansasCltyroni for President Republicans have their own vtews on gas Issue but public blaming them ByDAVEHELUNG The Kansas City Star America'S puny) panic is into presidential politics President Barack Obama watching his poll nmnbers dip as -foe price of fuel elides higher has stepped up his efforts to convince voters that fraud and $4 bQ-in oil company tax breaks STAR an video March 4 associated PRESS FlLf -A phemfk IZ Y- pianaY oldest sistet'f She and Diana'S two other 1 TT VIrw -S siMiiUdyJanleFeaowes gad Charles fencer Wfll-Vi be seated across foe aisle from foe royal femOy behind Kate MiddlrtonY pKentsinWsst-' minster Abbey iS lit- ti foe Missing Diamond Ear- tpr Except in this mystery we He know where foe eairingsdis- eared to" M' fee of Walesat her wedding heady 30 years ago arrived in But foe 4000 visttars who kfe pebtuary at Union SdK hasp seen foe show Jetton along with everything seen foe earrings GotHifedpssnJustwahttoSftesdupvv vll Internfrt connections in Kansas City Kari lt wants to make money at ft 1 But how can it cfelivar fester connections at roughly the same price to custonrere? Tha Star looks at those and other questions surrounding Google's ambitious plans I They were semr hack to England before dieslwwopenedK might icatdiS glimpse of they i 4 1 1 vu-xa 4 'i' r' v' IV 41 iTsa v-J IS: -I1 f- Tr f' vi'1 7 'i -s i'-'' 1 1 1 V' f-' -1 i v' r-r j'e'-v V'w w'i'J r'' -0 Jl--H? 1M.