News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
Goodbye Big Bird: Pandemic Thanksgiving Drives Demand for Small Turkeys
The COVID-19 pandemic is prompting families to downsize Thanksgiving feasts, which is driving demand for smaller turkeys.
Turning Data to Dialogue: Police Stop Data and the Search for Solutions
Missouri has some of the nation’s most comprehensive and longstanding data on police traffic stops. Yet for all of the tallying and annual reports and statements of concern, little has changed.
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Ambassador Hotel Opens 1930s Style Jazz and Supper Club
Kansas City jazz great Lonnie McFadden has opened a club beneath the Ambassador Hotel that includes an option for patrons to enjoy a three-course meal and listen to the show during the early evening sessions. The new Lonnie’s Reno Club opened earlier this month at the Ambassador at 1111 Grand. The name comes from the…
How Reverse Mortgages Backfire in Low-Income, Minority Neighborhoods
Reverse mortgages can backfire in low-income and minority neighborhoods if homeowners don’t account for property tax and insurance payments.
Indy Developer Teaming with Local Nonprofit on Riverfront Affordable Housing Proposal
By Kevin Collison Flaherty & Collins, the developer of the $72 million Union Berkley Riverfront apartment project, is teaming with a local nonprofit on a proposal to build a 124-unit affordable housing development next door. The Indianapolis-based developer is working with Twelfth Street Heritage Development Corp. on the proposed $22 million Heritage Lofts project at…
Nick’s Picks | 10 Things You Really Need to Know in KC This Week
Local responses to the latest surge in COVID-19 cases are expected to dominate this week’s news in Kansas City.
‘Wrapped with Heart’ Negro Leagues Celebration Rolling
By Kevin Collison It started as a million-dollar year for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum until Covid-19 hit in March. The pandemic forced the cancellation of several events planned this year to celebrate the centennial of the founding of the Negro Leagues and raise money for its museum in the 18th & Vine Historic District….
‘Just Not Enough People’: Health Care Workers Face Fatigue as COVID-19 Surges
As cases and hospitalizations hit all-time highs, both in Missouri and across the country, hospitals, officials and healthcare workers themselves are warning that staffing is stretched thin.
Owner of Closing Star Press Pavilion Wants to Play Ball with New Users
(Updated Feb. 24, Kessinger Hunter has listed the 344,000 square-foot soon-to-be vacated Star Press Building as available for lease) By Kevin Collison The Star may be exiting its big green-glass press pavilion at 16th and McGee next year, but the newspaper’s landlord said the two-block long structure won’t be going anywhere–unless the Royals might like…