By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist

The warm weather Friday prompted a lot of people to work outdoors. In midtown, Marcus Lee Looney raked leaves in the 3900 block of Forest Avenue and talked about how federal stimulus money for the Green Impact Zone would improve the long-neglected urban community.

Downtown, ahead of First Friday, workers looked like micro-dots crawling along the roof of the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts. That had to be the height of work outdoors during the unseasonably warm weather.