Hey, you guys, remember the parade?
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Love, Reign O’er Me
Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. ― Virgil, Eclogues X Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love. The Royals are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I’ve been to the Louvre, seen a sunrise over the Grand Canyon, and witnessed things involving Angie Everhart and a bedsheet that…
We are Royal. Bring on the confetti.
Kansas City is ready to party. The Royals are the 2015 World Champions, and it seems like the entire town has shut down to celebrate what might be this generation’s World Series parade. There will be Royals. There will be fans. There will be a 2.3 mile parade route that stretches from the Sprint Center…
Take 5 for your health | Nov. 3
Truman Clinic Aims To Fill Health Care Hole In Downtown Kansas City Downtown Kansas City, Mo., has a new outpatient surgical center and the University of Kansas School of Medicine has some local competition as it trains the next generation of KC doctors. Leaders of Truman Medical Centers and the University of Missouri-Kansas City School…
Kansas Kids Count Shows Improvements But Persistent Problems
An annual report on child well-being in Kansas shows some positive trends, but they’re overshadowed by persistent problems. Among the improvements cited in the 2015 Kansas Kids Count report: There are fewer uninsured children in Kansas. “That dropped to 5.5 percent in 2014,” says Shannon Cotsoradis, president and CEO of Kansas Action for Children. “That’s an all-time low,…
A ‘Royal Celebration’ for KC Royals and Fans
Minutes after the Royals’ exhausting 7-2 win over the Mets in the 12th inning of Game 5 of the World Series, the Kansas City Royals and the City of Kansas City issued an invitation for fans and supporters to a “Royal Celebration for our World Champion team,” Tuesday, Nov. 3. The celebration will begin at noon…
Crown: Clenched
NEW YORK (AP) — The Kansas City Royals won their first World Series crown since 1985, rallying in the ninth inning when Eric Hosmer scrambled home to tie it and then breaking away in the 12th to beat the New York Mets 7-2 in Game 5 Sunday night. The daring Royals capped their postseason full…
Food Companies Pressure Farmers To Reduce Runoff
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series on agricultural runoff from Harvest Public Media. The first part of the series ran on Flatland on September, 26. In order to grow massive amounts of corn and soybeans, two crops at the center of the U.S. food system, farmers in the Midwest typically apply hundreds…
USDA whistleblower claims censorship of pesticide research
A senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a whistleblower complaint on Wednesday accusing the federal agency of suppressing research findings that could call into question the use of a popular pesticide class that is a revenue powerhouse for the agrichemical industry. Jonathan Lundgren, a senior research entomologist with the USDA’s Agriculture Research…
Sounding Smarter
According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, China has decided to end its decades-old one-child per couple policy. The change comes to counter a shortage of young people in the Chinese workforce. Gee, who could have possibly seen that coming? The extinction of big animals including whales and elephants is creating environmental problems, new research finds. According to…