President Barack Obama visited Platte County’s Smith Electric Vehicles plant on Thursday as part of the administration’s wide ranging “Recovery Summer” tour of many of the stimulus projects funded by Recovery Act grants. Smith Electric Vehicles operates out of the former American Airlines/TWA Overhaul Base located off of 112th St near KCI in Platte County. The president strolled into the room about 20 minutes earlier than expected and said: “Usually they announce me with some fancy thing, and I think I messed up–I just walked out here. So I hope you didn’t mind.”
Platte City alderman Andy Stanton was the sole hold-out in two preliminary votes at Tuesday night’s city council meeting which could eventually determine whether city employees will receive $28,371 in wage and benefit hikes for 2011, not including merit-based pay raises.
State Rep. Jason Brown of Platte City recently met with General David Petraeus, newly-minted commander of the Afghanistan war effort and former commander of the United States Central Command. The meeting took place at a reception prior to the Korean War Veterans Appreciation Ceremony held on June 21, 60 years after the start of the Korean War. The ceremony was held at the Community of Christ Auditorium in Independence, Mo. Gov. Jay Nixon and Sen. Kit Bond were also in attendance.
