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KC Osteopathic School On Track To Open Joplin campus

New campus provides opportunity for model curriculum and chance to provide doctors to an underserved region.

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It was a big week for weed news. Oregon’s legalization laws went into effect with shops racking up roughly $11 million in sales in the first week. Meanwhile in Ohio, a weed legalization effort failed at the polls, at least partially due to concerns about a monopoly on distribution of the drug. (Similar concerns have been raised in Missouri.) Then…

Royals Parade

You ain’t seen nothing yet

If you were there, this is what your heart felt like. If you watched from afar, this is what your heart felt like. KCPT Producer Cole Blaise walked the Kansas City Royals #RoyalCelebration route, and yes, this is what his heart felt like. Watch the video and let us @FlatlandKC know what you think. Are you feeling it?…

Magnolia’s Fresh Bloom

While hundreds of thousands gathered to watch the Kansas City Royals in downtown Kansas City this Tuesday, chef Shanita McAfee was holding a bullpen session of her own. The owner of Magnolia’s, which opened yesterday at 9916 Holmes, had gathered six of her staffers on stools at the bar and was reviewing the restaurant’s policies…

The Weekender

Have you recovered yet? We’re all a little hungover, emotionally and physically, from winning the World Series. Nevertheless, the weekend approaches. It’s time to get out and about. Personally, I’m excited for the chance to wear green. Or burgundy. Or almost any color other than blue, really. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a massive Royals…

Hey, you guys, remember the parade?

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Kansas City Royals' Johnny Cueto celebrates after Game 5 of the Major League Baseball World Series on Monday. The Royals won 7-2 to win the series. (Photo: David J. Phillip | AP)

Love, Reign O’er Me

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. ― Virgil, Eclogues X Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love. The Royals are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I’ve been to the Louvre, seen a sunrise over the Grand Canyon, and witnessed things involving Angie Everhart and a bedsheet that…

We are Royal. Bring on the confetti.

Confetti has grown up. Today, 16 confetti cannons will blast the Royals celebration into the atmosphere.

Truman Medical Centers and the University of Missouri-Kansas City operate University Health, a new outpatient clinic on Hospital Hill in Kansas City. (Photo: Andy Marso | Heartland Health Monitor)

Take 5 for your health | Nov. 3

Truman Clinic Aims To Fill Health Care Hole In Downtown Kansas City Downtown Kansas City, Mo., has a new outpatient surgical center and the University of Kansas School of Medicine has some local competition as it trains the next generation of KC doctors. Leaders of Truman Medical Centers and the University of Missouri-Kansas City School…

Kansas Kids Count Shows Improvements But Persistent Problems

An annual report on child well-being in Kansas shows some positive trends, but they’re overshadowed by persistent problems. Among the improvements cited in the 2015 Kansas Kids Count report: There are fewer uninsured children in Kansas. “That dropped to 5.5 percent in 2014,” says Shannon Cotsoradis, president and CEO of Kansas Action for Children. “That’s an all-time low,…

A ‘Royal Celebration’ for KC Royals and Fans

Minutes after the Royals’ exhausting 7-2 win over the Mets in the 12th inning of Game 5 of the World Series, the Kansas City Royals and the City of Kansas City issued an invitation for fans and supporters to a “Royal Celebration for our World Champion team,” Tuesday, Nov. 3. The celebration will begin at noon…

The Boys in Blue celebrate after Game 5 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the New York Mets on Monday night in New York. The Royals won 7-2 to win the series. (Photo: Charlie Riedel | AP)

Crown: Clenched

NEW YORK (AP) — The Kansas City Royals won their first World Series crown since 1985, rallying in the ninth inning when Eric Hosmer scrambled home to tie it and then breaking away in the 12th to beat the New York Mets 7-2 in Game 5 Sunday night. The daring Royals capped their postseason full…

When it rains, topsoil and fertilizer run off the hills of Pfrantz farms. In addition to planting grass waterways and terraces to counter the threat of erosion, Pfrantz plans to plant cover crops this fall. (Photo: Abby Wendle | Harvest Public Media)

Food Companies Pressure Farmers To Reduce Runoff

Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series on agricultural runoff from Harvest Public Media. The first part of the series ran on Flatland on September, 26. In order to grow massive amounts of corn and soybeans, two crops at the center of the U.S. food system, farmers in the Midwest typically apply hundreds…

Snow and Canada geese prepare to land in an Oregon wildlife refuge. Several national wildlife refuges are phasing out pesticides from the group known as neonicotinoids because they pose a danger to bees and other pollinators. On Wednesday, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a whistleblower complaint accusing the USDA of suppressing research findings on these types of pesticides. (Photo: Jeff Barnard | AP File)

USDA whistleblower claims censorship of pesticide research

A senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a whistleblower complaint on Wednesday accusing the federal agency of suppressing research findings that could call into question the use of a popular pesticide class that is a revenue powerhouse for the agrichemical industry. Jonathan Lundgren, a senior research entomologist with the USDA’s Agriculture Research…

Sounding Smarter

According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, China has decided to end its decades-old one-child per couple policy. The change comes to counter a shortage of young people in the Chinese workforce. Gee, who could have possibly seen that coming? The extinction of big animals including whales and elephants is creating environmental problems, new research finds. According to…