Gov. Jay Nixon stops plans for execution
Todd Feeback | KCPT News On Friday, Oct. 11, the planned execution of Alan Nicklasson, was stopped by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon. Nicklasson was scheduled to be injected with a lethal dose of the drug propofol. This was the first time drug was to be used in an execution. Ordinarily, it is used as an…
KCPT Partners With KCTV5 to Investigate High School Football and Brain Injury
This week, the PBS investigative series Frontline took you inside the closed world of the NFL in a two-hour expose, League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis. “What did the NFL know, and when did they know it?” asks Mark Fainaru-Wada, whose new book on the correlation between football and brain trauma is the basis…
Concerning Concussions: Diagnosing Athletes in KC
Kansas City, Mo. – Emerging research suggests that the repeated hits football players endure during games and practice can cause permanent brain damage. “I think parents should be concerned,” said Dr. Randy Goldstein, the director of Youth Sports Medicine at The University of Kansas Hospital. “We are learning just in the last couple of years…
“If 10% of mothers begin to see this as a dangerous sport, this is the end of football in America."
This provocative quote comes from this week’s PBS Frontline expose League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis. Would you let your children play football? Connie and Ron Stile’s of Spring Hill, KS didn’t give it a second thought. But on October 28th, 2010, their son Nathan, a six foot, 175 pound senior and the…
Startup Village survives first year
KC Startup Village celebrated their first birthday with a block party.
Problems Persist in New KanCare System
KCPT Special Correspondent Sam Zeff takes anothe look at KanCare.
New $13.5 Million Culinary Academy Opens at Johnson County Community College
One of its most prized assets of Johnson County Community College has been its culinary program which has long been viewed as one of the best in the country. It has graduated some of the city’s top chefs, as well as some prestigious names in the cooking world. Now, they have a facility to…
Second Annual IKC event brings the Unconference to Kansas City
Kansas City, MO – The IKC 2013 Unconference had entrepreneurs colliding Thursday inside the H&R Block world headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, but that’s actually a good thing. The event was aiming to increase “collision density” in Kansas City – that is, the number of entrepreneurs living within an area that can connect and network…
KCMO Superintendent Declares ‘New Day’ for District During Annual Address
Kansas City, Mo. – The theme of Dr. Steve Green’s State of the Schools Address on Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 at Paseo Academy was a ‘new day’ for Kansas City Public Schools. “Today I am proud to say that the state of the Kansas City Public Schools is much stronger, undeniably healthier and our achievement…
Kansas City Business Leaders Gather to Focus on Sustainability
Kansas City, MO — Kansas City business and civic leaders along with organizations such as BASE KC and the American Sustainable Business Council attended a discussion September 27th at UMKC’s new Bloch Executive Hall of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The topic of the event was the local impact of climate change on businesses. The two-part meeting…
Your responses to our NFL Concussion Survey
FRONTLINE’s League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis airs on October 8, 2013. Before this investigation into traumatic brain injury and the NFL is broadcast, we want to hear what you think about the state of the sport and if football players should be compensated. So far, we’ve heard from a little over a dozen people, and…
Free Books for KC's Youngest Learners Courtesy of Dolly Parton
Educators with Center School District’s early childhood services spent many hours this summer going door to door in the Marlborough neighborhood to sign children up for free books from country music star Dolly Parton. “After about two hours of walking around the neighborhood, we typically get about 10 people signed up for the Dolly Parton…
Big 5 Report: KC Biotech Start-up Working on Diabetes Cure for Pets
KCPT reporters Todd Feeback and Lindsey Foat visited Kansas City’s Likarda, a 2012 biotech startup hoping to help companion animals suffering from diabetes–using a treatment that started with dogs, then moved to humans, and now, back to dogs. Every day at 6am and 6pm Stephanie Kallas gives her mini-dachshund Daisy a shot of insulin to help…
Review of Teaching Programs Remains Controversial
Lindsey Foat | KCPT News A study published in June labeled teacher education programs at colleges and universities across the country an “industry of mediocrity.” Only four out of the 1200 elementary and secondary teacher preparation programs included in the Teacher Prep Review received top ratings. Kate Walsh is one of the authors of the study…