Impuestos, cortes de pelo y cigarrillos de Parkville

Downtown Parkville

Un nuevo marcador de entrada en el centro de Parkville Contributed photo

Foley tweeted last week that the Royals are on pace for 45 wins for the season. That’s not great if they play 162 this year, but I’m sometimes shaky on math.


I’ve been contemplating the Parkville tax results for a couple of weeks now. The mayor appeared on Landmark Live earlier this year, and they had a pretty well tuned message for both issues, yet the brick-and-mortar issue failed, and the “public safety” issue passed.

Desde un punto de vista externo, pensé que el impuesto sobre el uso era más rentable que el impuesto de seguridad pública que requería que los oficiales se reunieran con más personas, sea lo que sea que eso signifique. Es probable que el impuesto sobre el uso se utilice para poner en marcha un nuevo desarrollo de corredor de entrada al centro de Parkville, lo que parece ser una gran necesidad.

Here is the interesting point to watch going forward. The public safety tax was about significantly more dollars annually and as the political winds shift over time, you might see the benefit in other places beyond policing. I’ve seen it time and time again. Over time, general fund money that was going to public safety may get reallocated to other uses as the public safety sales tax grows with the community and newly elected officials shift priorities. It will be interesting to see if the corridor project funding materializes without the use tax and if so, you will likely be able to point toward the public safety theme tax as the driver of that development. The old two for one tax.


Honestly, I’m a big Parkville taxpayer, although it’s in a special taxing district, so I’m not paying many of your bills, just some asphalt in the Roosters parking lot. I don’t need haircuts often because of a follically-challenged scalp, but Roosters has become my go-to place. I even let my wife tag along on a haircut trip last week and then we took in the Parkville downtown for some Easter Bunny shopping. Have you guys had flavored gourmet popcorn? That stuff seems illegal. We picked up some grape, Dr. Pepper flavor and other crazy flavors that I had never entertained to be on my popcorn.

It’s called Pop Culture Gourmet Popcorn and Ice Cream on Main Street and honestly, I just feel rich when I buy anything called “Gourmet.” Get you some.


Una vez compré cigarrillos gourmet en Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. Fumaban casi lo mismo que otros cigarrillos, por lo que pude ver. Era terrible para fumar cigarrillos, así que tuve que dejarlo después de unos pocos años. Parecía tonto tratando de sostener uno, fumar uno o encender uno, así que simplemente seguí adelante. ¡Bendecido!


Just for the sake of clarification, this is not a gourmet column. This is a regular old, country, base model column. No frills, a couple of opinions and 500 words to get you through a quick bathroom break, don’t expect anything more.


Según gente que sabe, los cinco mejores cigarrillos gourmet actualmente son: Marlboro Southern Cut, Natural American Spirit Black, Nat Sherman Classic, Natural American Spirit Blue y Rothman Blue. No estoy seguro si alguno de los productos proviene de Weston, pero si no, debería.

Careful, smoking ain’t good for you, fyi.

(Se puede contactar a Guy Speckman en gspeckman@me.com o comiendo palomitas de maíz gourmet en Roosters)

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