News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
KC Week in Review: "Cataclysmic" – angry words from Governor Nixon. Could he be upset at efforts this week to impeach him?
Steve Kraske of KCUR, Stacey Cameron, Investigative Reporter, Barbara Shelly of the Kansas City Star and Steve Vockrodt of The Pitch join Nick Haines to dissect this week’s top news stories, including articles of impeachment against Missouri’s governor, JJ’s restaurant’s plans to reopen and more. Jay Nixon photo courtesy of Salon.com
Closing of clinic elicits rainbow of emotions
The pale white walls and beige cloth desk chair pretty much sum up the decor of the medical director’s office at the Shared Care Free Clinic of Jackson County in Independence. Yet just inside the doorway, underneath a seat for visitors, sit two bundles of fluorescently colored socks. The director, Dr. Bridget McCandless, keeps the…
KU Professor lends D-Day expertise to upcoming NOVA special
University of Kansas students and faculty will see a familiar face on PBS this spring. KU History Professor and retired U.S. Army Major Dr. Adrian Lewis is one of the key historians in NOVA’s two-hour special “D-Day’s Sunken Secrets,” which will premiere on KCPT and other PBS stations May 28, 2014. “Adrian had an incredibly…
Education officials discuss future of KC public schools at forum
Several hundred people gathered at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library to hear local lawmakers and education officials discuss Kansas City Public Schools and the Missouri Transfer Law set to go into effect this summer. KCPT’s Nick Haines moderated the panel that included Missouri Board of Education member John Martin, Missouri Education…
Kansas Governor Announces Bond Funding For New KU Med Building
Alex Smith — KCUR Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback announced bonding authority Monday morning to help fund the construction of a new University of Kansas Medical Center education building. The funding comes as part of a school funding measure the governor signed into law Monday afternoon. The measure was approved by lawmakers on April 6. The…
Teens help community, themselves heal in aftermath of shootings
The plan was to memorialize each victim with the release of a hot-air-powered lantern, but the first attempt ended with stomps as a gusty wind ignited the white paper. A crew did finally get one to lift off in honor of all the dead. But a tree briefly snagged that one, and it skittered off…
Kansas City Week in Review for Friday, April 18
Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom shootings, the arrest of the highway shooter, streetcar rails arrive in Kansas City and other stories on this week’s edition of the program with news reviewers Steve Kraske, KCUR/UMKC; Garrett Haake, 41 Action News; Kevin Collison, Kansas City Star and Stacey Cameron, Investigative Reporter.
Health Profile: Nathan Jackson, Executive Director, Hope Family Care Center
Mike Sherry – The Hale Center for Journalism Hope Family Care Center provides primary care to three medically underserved, low-income ZIP codes in the urban core of Kansas City, Mo. The faith-based clinic at 3027 Prospect Ave. opened five years ago as an initiative of The Hope Center, a Christian community development organization that has…
Community gathers at JCC for service of unity and hope
After the shootings that killed three people and are being investigated as a hate crime, over one thousand people gathered for an interfaith service Thursday, April 17 in Overland Park, Kan. at the Jewish Community Center where some of the violence took place. People of many faiths from across the community filled the White Theater…
Preschool Trauma Program In Kansas City Getting National Attention
By Alex Smith – KCUR Every parent knows that young children have meltdowns now and then – at home, at school, in the grocery store – but sometimes a tantrum can be more than a bad day. It can be the sign of traumatic stress. A program started in Kansas City, Kan., offers teachers and…