News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
curiousKC | Does the COVID Vaccine Cause Shingles?
Does the COVID vaccine cause shingles? The short answer, no. Learn more here.
Le Chronic Cafe Serves Aunt Kathy’s Eclairs, Comfort Food
By Kevin Collison In opening Le Chronic Cafe at the City Market, chef Bryan Merker is fulfilling a promise he made to his Aunt Kathy years ago. As a kid in Kansas City, he always enjoyed the wonderful eclairs his aunt prepared. “My aunt was an amazing baker,” Merker recalled. “She always made eclairs so…
Nick’s Picks | Vaccine Expansion and NCAA Basketball
COVID vaccination expansion and the NCAA basketball tournament tops a bounty of news during the first full week of spring.
Advisory Group Endorses 12-Story Apartment Tower for River Market
By Kevin Collison A proposal to build a 12-story, 300-unit apartment tower on a parking lot immediately west of the City Market has been endorsed by a review committee reporting to Port KC. The $75 million plan submitted by Flaherty & Collins of Indianapolis was recommended over a competing proposal from RM Housing, a local…
Museum Apartment Tower, $116M Project, Proposed for 45th and Main
By Kevin Collison Museum Tower, a $116 million apartment project proposed for the gateway to a potential cultural district at 45th and Main, is among the development proposals filed with the city in advance of stricter tax incentive policies taking effect early next month. The bump in applications to the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas…
Museum Tower, $116 Million Apartment Project, Proposed for 45th and Main
Museum Tower, a $116 million apartment project proposed as a gateway to a potential cultural district at 45th and Main streets, leads the list of development proposals filed with the city in advance of stricter tax incentive policies taking effect early next month.
Stories of Pandemic Unemployment: ‘It … Eats Away at You’
Low wages, risky jobs put LGBTQ+ People, BIPOC and women in the economic line of fire pre- and post-pandemic.
Our Pandemic Year: Kansas City Reflects on COVID-19
As we reach the one-year milestone of living in the pandemic, Kansas Citians reflect on how their lives have changed.
Katz Proposal Purrs Past Plan Commission
By Kevin Collison Some design tweaks to a proposed apartment development that also would restore the historic Katz Drug Store in Midtown helped the project win unanimous support from the City Plan Commission Tuesday. In response to feedback from neighborhood groups and preservationists, the lower levels of the six-story apartment building now will be likely…
Katz Drug Store Proposal Purrs Past Plan Commission
Design tweaks to a proposed apartment development that also would restore the historic Katz Drug Store in midtown helped the project win unanimous support from the City Plan Commission.