What happened last week in Midtown Kansas City?

Last week in Midtown Kansas City, things were quiet on the news front as we celebrated the new year and readjusted to snow and cold weather.

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We took a moment to look back over our top storylines of 2013, which included schools, development on Armour Boulevard, changes on Broadway, the developing transportation system, urban gardening and park restoration, Google Fiber, crime prevention and the continuing problem with abandoned properties.

At city hall, the mainframe computer era ended as the city turned off an old computer and moved to the cloud. Local philanthropist and arts supporter R. Crosby Kemper died in California. And we reviewed the history of the Loretto Academy, an important part of the desegration fight in 1947.