Take 5 For Your Health
Salvaging food to feed hungry Kansans Almost a third of the food produced in America goes to waste. But the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture aim to change that through an effort that builds on the motto, “Feed people, not landfills.” The federal agencies are working with organizations across the country, including…
Jump in Murders Prompts Changes in Kansas City Anti-Violence Program
While declaring that Kansas City’s homicide problem won’t be solved by a single prevention strategy, leaders of one of the city’s signature anti-violence initiatives said Monday they plan to modify the program following a surge of murders this year. The program, the Kansas City No Violence Alliance (KC NoVA), is a three-year-old collaboration among several…
The answer to your question is curiousKC
What about _________? Could you investigate __________? What’s up with ___________? Got a question about Kansas City, the region or the people who live here? Anything you’ve always wondered about, found peculiar or downright confusing? Share your questions with KCPT’s curiousKC. How does it work? After you share a question, KCPT producers and editors…
What’s in a Trademark? Law. Lots and Lots of Law.
In 2014, while stuck in Kansas City rush hour traffic listening to N.W.A.’s infamous track, “Straight Outta Compton,” Mattie Green had a great idea. Why not replace “Compton” with “Kauffman” – a reference to the Kansas City Royals’ home field? In March 2014, Green had a single T-shirt printed with the phrase and a photo…
USDA’s MIDAS Computer Program Tarnished; Overdue, Over Budget
Blake Hurst rides ten feet above his soybean field in northern Missouri, looking more like he’s playing a video game than driving a $350,000 high-tech piece of machinery. As he rolls across the land in his John Deere combine, joystick in hand, three computer monitors offer him a host of information. He knows how much…
Where ‘comfort’ gets a twist and ‘local’ is a given
Aaron Salinas pauses as he walks through the building at 429 Walnut Street, his shadow stretching across the dust-covered checkerboard floor toward a door stenciled with word ‘library,’ leaning against the opposite wall. He’s in the midst of an informal tour of the space alongside James Paul – the two chefs who will be cooking…
The Weekender: Holiday Weekend Edition
If you’re dreaming of a White Christmas, you had better keep dreaming. We’re getting unseasonably warm weather in KC this year. All the more reason to get out and about. BAGELING Not everyone celebrates Christmas, of course. Jewish people, or anyone else who loves a good time for a good cause, should check out the…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Holiday jams that get you out of a jam
As we near the end of the holiday season, many of us are also nearing the end of our holiday ropes. Thanksgiving came early and left bloated. Chanukah had its eight-night residency at beginning of the month. Milad un Nabi is either currently in swing or coming up, depending upon which team you play for….
New Grant Helping Jackson County Encourage HPV Vaccinations
It might be a stretch for the United States to achieve an 80 percent vaccination rate against the human papillomavirus (HPV) within the next four years, as envisioned by the Healthy People 2020 plan set out by federal health authorities. Although HPV is a leading cause of certain cancers in both men and women, the…
Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree
Tina Luckett, Entertainment Marketing Director at Hallmark’s Crown Center, always looks forward to a particular business trip. Every other year, Hallmark sends Luckett to Sweethome, Oregon to spend the day walking through the forest in search of a Christmas tree. Well, two Christmas trees to be exact. For the past ten years, Luckett has traveled to the…