What you need to know for curiousKC this month. (Flatland)
What you need to know for curiousKC this month. (Flatland)

Here’s Which Question Won in June and Your New Voting Round

July 5, 2021  |  Vicky Diaz-Camacho  |  2 min read

The people have spoken. With nearly 30% of all votes during June, this is the question most folks wanted to learn about: 

“I wonder who the Native Americans were that first lived in the KC area. What was their culture like?” 

Our team will start to sift through research and reach out to experts in the area, but if that’s you and you’d like to contribute please reach out. You can tap either Vicky Diaz-Camacho, curiousKC’s liaison and community reporter via email: vdiaz-camacho@kansascitypbs.org, or Catherine Hoffman, our community affairs reporter via email: choffman@flatlandkc.local

This leads us to the next announcement. We have a new round of questions that you get to vote on. You’ll have from July 4 to August 1 to vote, share on your social media feeds, and help us get more votes. 

Drumroll please … Here are the oh-so fascinating queries you get to choose from:

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Finally, are you looking for several topic-specific curiousKC question forms? Click on the topics below to send us a question in these buckets or scroll to the bottom of the page to write in our general question form: 


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