News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
Shooting of Ryan Stokes won’t go away
1 Struggle KC, a local activist group started in October 2014 in response to the events in Ferguson Missouri, has taken an investigative piece originally written by Daniel Boothe and Mike McGraw and used the facts reported by Flatland surrounding the death of Ryan Stokes as their main source to push for restorative justice. A…
5 Questions with Human Rights Leader Minoru Yasui’s Granddaughter
This afternoon Minoru Yasui will receive a posthumous 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the nation, at the White House in Washington D.C. According to the White House Press Release: Minoru Yasui was a civil and human rights leader known for his continuous defense of the ideals of democracy embodied in our…
Alzheimer’s Panelists Point To Progress In Diagnosis, Treatment
Two University of Kansas Medical Center researchers at the forefront of national efforts to treat Alzheimer’s disease said scientists are making strides toward reducing the prevalence of a condition that affects as many as 5.1 million Americans. Key aims include early detection and halting the progression of the disease, said Dr. Jeffrey Burns, a leader…
Take 5 For Your Health
Kansas ‘Right to Try’ Bill Would Ease Access To Trial Drugs But Some See Peril Signs of the toll amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has taken on Kelli Johnsen’s body are scattered throughout the living room of her Emporia, Kansas, home. A wheelchair in one corner. A lift in another. A walker near the television. Next to her…
Leveling the technology playing field
It’s never fun to get a poor report card, but it’s even worse when the bad marks are due to circumstances beyond your control. That’s the way Superintendent Dennis Carpenter felt when the organization he leads, the Hickman Mills School District, fared badly on its most recent annual performance report from the Missouri Department of…
Looking To Settle Down, Immigrant Workers Face Housing Crisis
The immigrant workers that pick crops like cotton and melons in the U.S. can have a tough time finding a place to live. The rural areas where they can find work often lack the social services and affordable housing. That means many farm worker families end up in dilapidated buildings, which can come with health…
Tobacco 21 gains approval in KCMO, Wyandotte County
The two municipalities hiked the legal age for purchasing tobacco products from 18 to 21 — the first victories for a region-wide effort.
As MU looks hard at diversity, the world’s first J-School also needs to revisit a ‘notorious act of racism’.
In the wake of historic changes at my alma mater in Columbia, it seems as though everybody in a position of power there has been clawing for higher ground. University administrators who were forced to resign don’t want to be seen as racist, maybe just clueless. The Board of Curators, which actually thanked those former…
Ka-Blooom!
And then there was one. Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation hosted the first One in a Million Business and Pitch Competition Wednesday morning at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center on Rockhill Road, as five hopeful entrepreneurs from the 1 Million Cups community presented their start-up companies to a panel of…
Anti-smoking measures advance to KC council
A Kansas City Council committee on Wednesday approved three anti-smoking measures that critics said wrongly include electronic cigarettes and premium cigars. Taken together, the three ordinances raise the legal age for purchasing tobacco products and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21 and add e-cigarettes, also known as vapes, to the city’s ban on indoor smoking, including…