The “From the Field: Policy in Action” panel at the Kauffman Foundation brought representatives from Iowa, Kansas and Missouri together to discuss entrepreneurship and innovation.
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…
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…
By Dave Ranney KHI News Service Bryan Thompson Kansas Public Radio OVERLAND PARK — Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law Wednesday a measure that is expected to make insurance coverage for autism services available to about 750 children over the next two to three years. House Bill 2744 was a compromise measure that gained eventual support from…
Every Wednesday morning entrepreneurs fill the Kauffman Foundation to the brim for 1 Million Cups. This week DropShades and CouponCloud presented their companies in the auditorium lined with a few hundred audience members.
The hateful acts of one person have taken the lives of three of our community members, and wounded many more. So far we’ve collected several messages of support and we’ll continue to add more as they are submitted. Read what others from across the country have written and add your message below. “An evil act.…
While many would consider going out on a Friday night to include dinner, drinks or going dancing, a select group of individuals went to Ingenology, a startup incubator in the Crossroads district, to build software for NASA’s Space Apps Challenge.
An interfaith unity service to honor the victims of Sunday’s shootings will be held 10 a.m. Thursday at the Jewish Community Campus’ White Theatre. Clergy from different faith communities across the metro will lead the 45-minute service. Three community members were killed Sunday afternoon in shootings at two locations: Overland Park’s Jewish Community Center…
That annual flu vaccine could be a thing of the past by the end of the decade, the director of the National Institutes of Health said during a Monday visit to the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. Francis Collins said that NIH-funded researchers are perhaps five years away from developing a universal flu vaccine,…
Web pro Meg Adams stayed up for 24 hours to help design a new website for Kansas City Actors Theatre. (Photo by Caitlin Cress/Hale Center for Journalism) Caitlin Cress — The Hale Center for Journalism The project space at Think Big Partners in the Crossroads is packed: the open…