News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
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Topics include: Election Day drama continues, World War I Museum and Memorial celebrates 100 years, Steamboat Arabia leaves, and entertainment options.
How One Wyandot Artist Hopes to Bring His Native Language Back From Extinction
“To speak the language, you’re actually creating the language as you go,” Richard Zane Smith said. “We’re trying to come up with a kind of standardized writing system, and even that has its challenges.”
Teaching Christian Theology in the World of Online Learning
Christian educators in the Kansas City area are grappling with the fundamental questions raised by Zoom classes while welcoming students that could not attend otherwise.
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The U.S. vice president visits Topeka, a unicorn costume is a Halloween favorite, and a famous musician gets recognized in Kansas City.
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Election season is in full swing, with the U.S. Senate race in Kansas taking center stage, including President Donald Trump holding a rally in Wichita.
Kansas City Cooks as Site for National Anti-ICE Dinner Series
Celebrated chefs from throughout the metro collaborated for three nights on dinners that raised money for a local immigrant-rights nonprofit.
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Nick Haines also has the lowdown on information for the upcoming election, the arrival of fall and Kansas City’s Day of the Dead celebration.
Nick’s Picks | I-70, Tax Break, School Petition, and More …
An Interstate 70 closure, a tax rebate for Jackson County property owners, a school closure petition, and more …
Kansas City Helping Renters Avoid Eviction
On any given Thursday, a small hallway in the Jackson County Courthouse crowds with tenants, landlords, and attorneys arriving for their scheduled hearings and trials. The scene unfolds on Floor 7M, which is half the height of the building’s other levels, and is where Associate Circuit Judge Mary Weir recently worked through 55 eviction cases…
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Is Missouri’s congressional map saga over? It seems so, but who knows if there will be another twist or turn. That story and more …