Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 01/03/2026Kansas City, Missouri in 2015 before the MAGA revolution (colorized). This is what they took from us. 030
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 09/01/2026Throwback to, in preparation for my mother's wedding, I got my hair cut by my stepdad's barber Roscoe. Roscoe wasn't super familiar with cutting hair for white people, so when I told him I wanted my hair cut "short" I got a buzz cut. 120
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 06/01/202611 years ago, I offered to teach a girl in my English class how to drive a manual. After driving around in the abandoned Metro North Mall parking lot, we went to Jimmy Johns in North Kansas City. Today's our 7th wedding anniversary and we went to the same Jimmy Johns 0110
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 15/12/2025There's a white squirrel that lives down the street from me. I've been trying to get a photo of it for months. It's been my white whale. I finally got a photo of it today. 140
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 04/11/2025lmao back then Chipotle was just one of the many vendors at an amusement park called Winnwood Beach 110
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 04/11/2025Here's a map showing the approximate path of the railroad overlaid on a modern map of the Chaumiere neighborhood 120
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 04/11/2025A neighbor shared this photo from 1921 of the Moscow station of Kansas City's interurban railroad. The station was on Russell rd here in the Chaumiere neighborhood 290
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 24/10/2025Election results for the Recall of Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. by precinct with various boundaries drawn. 120
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 24/10/2025Election results for the Recall of Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. by KCMO City Council District. 120
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 24/10/2025Election results for the Recall of Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. by Municipality 120
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 24/10/2025Election results for the Recall of Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. by County Legislature District. 120
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 24/10/2025Election results for the Recall of Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. 120
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 26/08/2025This game of "leap frog" between development and annexation led to inconsistent standards applied to those developments. One example of this is that many of those neighborhoods developed prior to annexations lack basic infrastructure such as sidewalks. 010
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 26/08/2025In the 1950s and 60s, the city of Kansas City, MO rapidly expanded its borders. Due to the timing of those expansions, many inner-ring KC suburbs were mostly developed prior to being annexed by the city. Later expansions were developed under City jurisdiction. 110
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 26/08/2025A map of currently existing single family homes in Kansas City, MO, by the year they were built. The city limits are the black boundary. 100
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 07/07/2025In my neighborhood, one road has been leaky for years. In 2023, a geyser appeared in the middle of the street. Leaks still reoccur constantly and the water dept just patches the one spot instead of replacing the entire line. 020
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 15/05/2025I submitted my first pull request to a major open source project 5 days ago and the maintainers still haven't reviewed it. 2390
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 04/05/2025Spent today painting a sign with my neighbors. Welcome to Chaumiere Neighborhood! 140
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 03/05/2025I walked to the old Brookwood School Lot right across from the KC North Community center. Was able to get there thanks to the new sidewalks on Russell Rd. 040
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 02/05/2025An empty lot at Antioch and Russell Rd. A 6-room neighborhood school named Brookwood School used to be here. I believe it was there from the 1920s-50s. Was vacant until the 80s and torn down and sold to KCMO parks. All that remains is the retaining walls and an unmaintained baseball field. 010
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 08/04/2025I just voted NO on question 1. If you live in KCMO, you should too! Polls close at 7! 010
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 04/04/2025It's been 13 years without my mom. Today would have been her 54th birthday. Happy birthday, mom. 280
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 31/03/2025I don't know all the details, but the article makes it sound like the law is on the books, but there's some kind of workaround? 100
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 27/03/2025Domestic Assault is the 10th most common charge for KC's jail population, with only 6% of detainees having been charged or sentenced with Domestic Assault. With an average jail population of 85, that works out to be about 5 people at a given time. 100
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 27/03/2025The only charges prosecuted on a city level that could be considered "violent" are Assault and Domestic Assault. On the average day in 2025, only 38% of Kansas City's jail population had one of those charges. 100
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 27/03/2025Some City leaders like Councilman Crispin Rea and Mayor Quinton Lucas have claimed that around 65% of people we currently detain are in for "violent" charges, and specifically citing domestic violence as a major contributor. But is that true? No one has mentioned where these numbers came from. 100
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 27/03/2025On April 8th, KCMO votes on whether to renew a 1/4¢ sales tax to build a City Jail. KC already incarcerates people, but City leaders have not provided clear and accurate information about the charges contributing to our current jail population. I worked on a project to collect that info. 🧵 290
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 26/03/2025I'm proud of my friend Lucas for being appointed to Kansas City's young adult commission! 040
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 25/03/2025But what he's saying isn't even close to true. The vast majority of young people have a bank account and most banking institutions have some kind of free checking account. He's just making shit up 100
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 24/03/2025Very cool to get a mailer with lies about question 1. Vote NO, KCMO 110
Jaz Hays @jazhays.com · 24/03/2025I appreciate that the upcoming NKCSD bond will be investing in the arts! 120
