KCK Social Service Organization Cuts Jobs
Hit by recent cuts in state mental health programs, Wyandot Inc., an umbrella organization for four nonprofit agencies in Kansas City, Kansas, has eliminated 26 positions. Six of the positions were vacant and won’t be filled and six other employees accepted transfers to other positions in the organization, leaving a total of 14 who lost…
The Weekend Starts Today
We’ll have unseasonably warm weather this weekend. Call it a false spring. Because of it, there’s no excuse to stay home, especially since we’ve rounded up for you the world-class entertainment coming to town. Sports fans, sadly, are living in a lull. Football is over. Baseball is yet to begin. KU and UMKC basketball are…
5 Questions with Re:Dream’s Christopher Cook
Are you living the dream? And what does that dream look like? One national project, Re:Dream, is exploring what opportunity — and our definition of success — look like in the 21st Century. The project is both video-based, with 40 micro documentaries rolling out from the end of February, and events-based, with ongoing community engagement activities across the US. We asked series producer…
Take 5 For Your Health
Budgets Reflect Kansas Legislators’ Attention To State Hospitals The Kansas House and Senate both passed budgets last week that shift money from several sources to shore up an underwater state general fund. But even in lean budget times, the lawmakers found a few million dollars in the general fund to provide additional money for the…
Bloody, MO | Willie ‘The Rat’ Cammisano
Welcome to “Bloody, MO,” a Civil War-through-modern day video peek into Kansas City’s bloody past – starring equally notorious and unknown gunslingers, fire-starters, and godfathers. Today: Willie “The Rat” Cammisano A legend in the Missouri underworld and holder of one of the most fearsome and lethal reputations in Kansas City mafia history, Willie “The Rat” Cammisano died a…
How Kansas City Is | Grammy Awards
We’re asking the question: How “Kansas City” is… for all the good stuff going on in our world. Up today? The genre-mixing celebration of all things music, the 58th annual Grammy Awards. We’ll see a few Kansas Citians walk the red carpet at the Los Angeles Staples Center on Monday evening, and a few more hidden local gems throughout the show. Check out…
Citrus Fruit Grown in the Midwest… In Winter
The middle of winter is when the stream of locally grown fruits and vegetables in the Midwest begins to freeze up. Nicole Saville knows first-hand. Saville is the produce manager at Open Harvest, a grocery coop in Lincoln, Neb. The store promotes food grown by local farmers, but this time of year there just isn’t…
Commentary | ‘But The Questions Sure Do Linger.’
Editor’s Note: This commentary, from Washington Post reporter Tom Jackman, is part of a larger effort by KCPT and The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) to explore the meaning of justice in the context of the 1988 explosion in south Kansas City that killed six Kansas City firefighters. The effort, called StoryWorks KC, includes a stage production about…
Back Into the ‘Underground’
During dress rehearsal Wednesday night, co-choreographer Tobin James of Storling Dance Theater’s “Underground” at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts struggled to speak. Sick, exhausted, her voice shot, she breathed deep as she watched the final rehearsal from a dark corner offstage. Twenty rows back in the sixteen hundred seat auditorium, co-choreographer Mona Enna…
KC is About to Get Bagel Crazy
The man opens the glass door to a suite in a Pleasant Valley industrial park. Before the couple seated at a wooden table by the front door can even respond, he’s apologizing and explaining that he just had to visit the space for himself. “I saw your ad on Craigslist,” said the man. “I don’t…