Kansas City-area supporters strive to reopen eating disorder clinic
Approximately 30 million Americans – two-thirds of them women – battle a clinically significant eating disorder during their lifetime, and hundreds of thousands of these people live in Missouri or Kansas,
Why Kansas City fans are willing to pay big
Tickets to watch the Kansas City Royals play the San Francisco Giants in this year’s World Series are being called the second most expensive World Series tickets in recent years. But how do you even get your hands on them? The Royals ran a lottery for the general public to buy World Series tickets from…
Ebola crisis hits home for KC’s West African community
Peteh Jalloh lives in Kansas City, but he lived in Sierra Leone until 1995. Lately, he has limited his communication with friends and family in Africa who are dealing with the Ebola crisis to messaging back and forth on Facebook. He says talking on the phone has become too painful. “Every day I get Facebook…
At harvest, corn huskers still pick by hand
Dick Humes squinted and sweat as he moved down a row of corn. He sliced through the husk with a metal hook in his right hand, snapped the ear from its stalk with his left and threw it over his shoulder into a wagon rolling alongside him. Every other second, the corn hit the floor…
KC Week in Review: Royals Fever infects thousands in metro. Ebola infects none.
There have been rumors and concerns, front page stories and team coverage on radio and TV stations over Ebola in the metro. Yet, there are no confirmed cases of the deadly disease in Kansas City and a man being treated at KU Hospital was actually suffering from a different medical condition. The alarm has not…
Workshop encourages innovation for an aging population
One in five Americans will be age 65 or older by the year 2030, according to the Census Bureau. As the baby boomers age, the question arises: How will we deal with this aging population? A group of students and faculty at UMKC is taking a look at this question.
Everybody wants to be Royal
A woman in her 20s walks into the Garment District Boutique in the Power & Light District around lunchtime on Friday. She glances around before tentatively asking “Do you guys have more sizes in yet?” She’s looking at a box on the floor, overflowing with dozens of the same T-shirt: a baseball raglan featuring a…
Measles, pertussis vex Kansas health workers as Ebola steals headlines
[row class=”row-fluid”][col class=”span12″] TOPEKA – Even as local health officials prepare for the unlikely event of an Ebola outbreak in Kansas, some have had their hands full trying to convince people in their communities to take basic measures to contain the spread of more prevalent, contagious and preventable diseases like measles and pertussis. Kansas has…
How do you define the American Dream?
When interviewing people for the Your Fellow Americans (YFA) project, defining the “American Dream” has been a central theme in our discussions. Sometimes the people we interview are passers-by who pause and give us a moment of their time. Sometimes the people have a full lights-n-camera setup surrounding them and are meeting us for a second…
Kansas City celebrates: Royals advance to World Series
Last night, the Kansas City Royals won game four of the ALCS at Kauffman Stadium, sweeping the Baltimore Orioles and securing a spot in next week’s World Series. The team hasn’t played in the World Series since 1985, when they won against the St. Louis Cardinals in the “I-70 World Series.” [View the story…
More than just movies: KC's indie cinemas transform the film experience
Any Kansas Citian interested in independent films knows what it’s like to wait for a movie with a limited release to reach the Midwest. Recently, both “The Skeleton Twins” and “Obvious Child” — small movies with with former SNL comedians taking a stab at drama — first opened in KC at Tivoli Cinemas in the…
California company finalizes agreement to buy two KC-area hospitals
The operator of two local Catholic hospitals has finalized their sale to a for-profit company based in Ontario, Calif. Ascension, the nation’s largest Catholic health system, said in a statement Tuesday that it had reached a definitive agreement to sell St. Joseph Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., and St. Mary’s Medical Center in Blue…
Explore many careers, you must: voice of Yoda visits career day
If Yoda offered career advice, he might tell you something like, “Do or do not. There is no try.” But Tom Kane, who was the voice of Yoda in the animated film “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” as well as numerous Star Wars video games, is more interested in making sure the Blue Valley Middle…
The University of Kansas Hospital: Patient admitted Monday does not have Ebola
UPDATE 10/14/14 4:10 pm: A man who was admitted Monday to The University of Kansas Hospital suffering from diarrhea and who worked recently near Africa’s west coast does not have Ebola, the hospital said Tuesday afternoon. Results of blood tests showed the patient has not contracted the virus, which has killed more than 4,000 people in the…