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Renters: How to Weatherize Your Home to Reduce Energy Costs

While you may not have much control over the cost of utilities, you do have some control over how efficiently you use them.

by Julie Freijat

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Watch: Mapping and Managing Energy Burden in Kansas City

What is energy burden, anyway?

by Julie Freijat

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Truth, Religion and the Demise of Local Newspapers

'Sad Diminution' of Metro Dailies Hinders Mission Journalism Shares With Religion

by Bill Tammeus

Civic Affairs

KC Library Exec Focuses On Native Americans in National Role

Cindy Hohl, a member of the Santee Nation, is the first Kansas City Public Library official to lead the American Library Association

by Haines Eason

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This Group is Saving the Kansas River from Tons of Trash

Friends of the Kaw volunteers tackle items as big as septic tanks. Now they’re eyeing an ambitious cleanup target for 2030.

by Celia Llopis-Jepsen, Kansas News Service

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History

A Black Friday Romp Through the Metro’s Shoplifting History

The evolution of retail theft from frontier thievery to crime rings

by Brian Burnes

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