The Allman Report with Host Jamie Allman on NewsTalkSTL
Oct 6, 2026 · 39 min · 12 segments
0:00 SEG 1 Kirkwood Karen's - Jamie dives into a story about Kirkwood, Missouri, and the Karen's trying to shut down the noise from bars and restaurants. 16:14 SEG 2 Death Penalty - A man is…
The headline is, uh, "Kirkwood Looks to Crack Down on Downtown Business Noise." And I'm trying to think to myself, golly, first of all, every time I turn around there's a n- there's a story in the newspaper about Kirkwood sucking wind because of its budget and because of all this other nonsense, some relationship it had with some building and stages, all this kind of stuff.
And there's just always something nefarious going on with Kirkwood city government.
Uh, granted there are property taxes, all this kind of thing, but they're crapping all over Billy G's in Kirkwood.
Billy G's is super cool and a great addition to Kirkwood, and there are a lot of downtown restaurants there and everything else.
And I, I get it, you know, uh, about people not wanting noise into 2:00 in the morning or what have you.
I don't know what the hours are, but it seems to me that the complaints are kind of more broadly based on, uh, businesses.
And I'm trying to figure out between that and all of the bitching and moaning about data centers and, uh, and, and all these reindustrialization tools and all this kind of stuff, why people are, uh, just trying to live lives like there's nothing else around them.
You know, I understand, for instance, a lot of people like you guys I know, uh, in St. Charles County, in Defiance, and all that other stuff, uh, you don't just want some big industry to plop down on land that you ...
Uh, this, uh, NIMBY syndrome that we have in this country is really weird, especially because, you know ...
And I'm sure because Kirkwood is full of a bunch of liberals anyway, I'm sure they would just as soon just raise taxes instead of having businesses.
That's how a lot of places have been able to fund themselves just by raising taxes on people and funding their fire departments and their police departments and their libraries and their schools and everything else on the backs of people working for a living.
But it, the, it's better to have industry and businesses that are providing lifeblood and taking some of the burden off of the taxpayers so that there doesn't have to be continued hikes in taxes to cover for budgets and things like that.
The headline is, uh, "Kirkwood Looks to Crack Down on Downtown Business Noise." And I'm trying to think to myself, golly, first of all, every time I turn around there's a n- there's a story in the newspaper about Kirkwood sucking wind because of its budget and because of all this other nonsense, some relationship it had with some building and stages, all this kind of stuff.
And there's just always something nefarious going on with Kirkwood city government.
Uh, granted there are property taxes, all this kind of thing, but they're crapping all over Billy G's in Kirkwood.
Billy G's is super cool and a great addition to Kirkwood, and there are a lot of downtown restaurants there and everything else.
And I, I get it, you know, uh, about people not wanting noise into 2:00 in the morning or what have you.
I don't know what the hours are, but it seems to me that the complaints are kind of more broadly based on, uh, businesses.
And I'm trying to figure out between that and all of the bitching and moaning about data centers and, uh, and, and all these reindustrialization tools and all this kind of stuff, why people are, uh, just trying to live lives like there's nothing else around them.
You know, I understand, for instance, a lot of people like you guys I know, uh, in St. Charles County, in Defiance, and all that other stuff, uh, you don't just want some big industry to plop down on land that you ...
Uh, this, uh, NIMBY syndrome that we have in this country is really weird, especially because, you know ...
And I'm sure because Kirkwood is full of a bunch of liberals anyway, I'm sure they would just as soon just raise taxes instead of having businesses.
That's how a lot of places have been able to fund themselves just by raising taxes on people and funding their fire departments and their police departments and their libraries and their schools and everything else on the backs of people working for a living.
But it, the, it's better to have industry and businesses that are providing lifeblood and taking some of the burden off of the taxpayers so that there doesn't have to be continued hikes in taxes to cover for budgets and things like that.
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