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Tweet Recently re-elected Mayor Ron Shaffer took the oath of office at Monday’s Prairie Village City Council meeting, and then took a moment to address what he sees as collateral damage from the lead up to his April 5 victory over City Councilman Michael Kelly. After being sworn in to his fourth term by City [...]
Tweet Prairie Village voters on Tuesday granted Mayor Ron Shaffer an unprecedented fourth term in office, choosing him over City Councilman Michael Kelly by a margin of 57.6 to 41.2. Shaffer will be sworn in at the next City Council meeting, to be held April 18. Shaffer celebrated the victory at his Homestead Drive home [...]
Tweet Tomorrow, if you didn’t know, is Election Day. So today we’ll be running a few posts linking to coverage from us and other news sources about the races you’ll see on the ballot. We’ll start with the race for Prairie Village mayor, where the candidates are incumbent Ron Shaffer and challenger Michael Kelly, a [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Mayor Ron Shaffer’s campaign released the following statement today regarding his decision not to accept a challenge from City Councilman Michael Kelly for a second debate: “Thank you for the invitation, but my previous commitments and campaign strategy do not allow me the time for another debate.” – Ron Shaffer. Kelly’s campaign [...]
Tweet Less than a week before election day, former and current state and county officials are announcing their support for the Prairie Village mayor candidates, with the majority lining up behind incumbent Ron Shaffer. Of the twelve city council members, nine have publicly announced their support for Shaffer. They are: Dale Beckerman David Belz Charles [...]
Tweet Thanks to a PVPost reader for passing along audio from Saturday’s mayoral debate. Download the .mp3 file via ZShare.net here. (Sorry…we were hoping to embed the file on the site, but I’ve yet to master WordPress’s built in audio player).
Tweet Mayor Ron Shaffer and City Councilman Michael Kelly took to the podium at Cherokee Christian Church for a debate sponsored by the Prairie Hills Homes Association on Saturday, just over a week before Prairie Village voters decide which of them will occupy the mayor’s office for the next four years. (The debate was moderated [...]
Tweet When Prairie Village City Councilman Michael Kelly talks about his motivations for entering the race for mayor, he frequently references a management style at city hall that has been too disengaged. For evidence, he says, look no further than a missed application deadline for federal funds that could have netted the city between $800,000 [...]
Tweet Prairie Village city staff are pulling together more records following requests from resident Jori Nelson, who presented the council Monday with the an assessment of city council travel expenditures from documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act Request. The documents reveal over the past ten years city council members and the mayor have [...]
Tweet Prairie Village resident Jori Nelson said during her address to the city council last night that her inquiry into city council travel expenses “isn’t political, and isn’t personal.” Councilwoman Diana Ewy Sharp begs to differ. In an lengthy letter posted on her city council Facebook page, Ewy Sharp identified herself as one of the [...]
Tweet If you haven’t gotten a knock on the door yet, there’s a pretty good chance it’s coming. As Election Day in the Prairie Village mayor race approaches, incumbent Ron Shaffer and challenger Michael Kelly are organizing supporters to hit the streets in an effort to drum up support — and voter turnout. Kelly, who [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Councilman Michael Kelly has built his mayoral campaign around claims that he’ll bring fresh leadership and new vision to city hall. But his recent council attendance record has some wondering whether he’s dedicated enough to city service to follow through. City records show that over the past year, Kelly has been [...]
Tweet Today, our sixth and final question for the Prairie Village mayor candidates: Prairie Village has an active cycling community (as evidenced by the large group ride that departs from the Blue Moose Thursdays). What steps can the city take to be more bike friendly? Would you support the addition of dedicated bike lanes on [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Mayor Ron Shaffer’s reelection campaign has launched a Web site. Visit it here. Councilman Michael Kelly launched a campaign Web site in late February. Visit it here.
Tweet Question five for the Prairie Village mayor candidates deals with maintaining the high neighborhood standards that have long been the city’s hallmark: Prairie Village is often pointed to as a model of excellent neighborhood planning — but much of the city’s housing stock has started to show its age. What can the city do [...]
Tweet Item four on our questionnaire for the Prairie Village mayor candidates deals with proposals to build a new community center: Prairie Village is currently exploring the development of a community center similar to the Sylvester Powell center in Mission. Do you support bringing a new community and aquatic center to Prairie Village? If so, [...]
Tweet Our third question for the Prairie Village mayor candidates — and the one that deals with the issue most important to area voters, according to our poll — asks about combating the rising crime rate: Reported crime in Prairie Village rose 19 percent from 2009 to 2010, and burglaries have been notably high for [...]
Tweet Our second question for the Prairie Village mayor candidates was about the Community Improvement Districts passed by the city council last fall, which will fund improvements to the Village Shops and Corinth Square: In September, the city council passed two Community Improvement Districts, raising taxes at Corinth Square and the Village Shops by 1 [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Mayor Ron Shaffer held a meeting at his Homestead Drive home Sunday afternoon to organize his reelection campaign with approximately 20 supporters. Former Prairie Village City Councilwoman and current Johnson County Parks and Recreation Commissioner Nancy Wallerstein will be Shaffer’s campaign manager. Current City Council President Charles Clark is serving as treasurer. [...]
Tweet Today we begin our week-long series featuring the Prairie Village mayor candidates’ answers to questions about the issues most important to PVPost.com readers. The first question on our six item questionnaire for the candidates was: A recent analysis by Public Works shows that recommended street repairs in Prairie Village would cost $4 million a [...]
Tweet We got boatloads of feedback to our call for questions for Prairie Village mayor candidates Ron Shaffer and Michael Kelly. But now that the questionnaire has been devised and sent out, we want to know what issue — among all the others — is most important to area voters. (If we didn’t list the [...]
Tweet Well, it sure looks like there’s quite a bit of interest in the race for Prairie Village mayor. We received more than 30 responses to our call last week for questions for the candidates. Taking the issues our readers brought up most frequently in those responses, we crafted six questions and sent them to the candidates [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Councilman Michael Kelly on Sunday held the first of what he said would be around a half dozen neighborhood meet-ups, a strategy he hopes will help give him citywide exposure as he campaigns for Prairie Village mayor. The event was hosted at the home of Eric Mikkelson, a 71st Street resident [...]
Tweet We’re putting together a questionnaire to send out to incumbent Prairie Village Mayor Ron Shaffer and challenger Michael Kelly, who sits on the City Council, and we want to know what issues you’d like to see the two address. Send us your questions for the candidates through the comments section, via Facebook, via Twitter, [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Mayor Ron Shaffer got a first hand view of the reaction to President Barack Obama’s budget proposal earlier this week. Shaffer, who serves on the National Association of Regional Councils board of directors, as well as the board of its local affiliate, the Mid-America Regional council, was in D.C. for a series [...]
