A town hall forum on a Wyandotte County health initiative drew a standing-room-only crowd to City Hall Thursday evening, but that level of interest didn’t mean participants believed government officials would follow through with the plan. In reporting feedback from their break-out sessions, facilitators said many attendees were skeptical because they felt City Hall had…
It’s news that no one ever wants to receive, but that Landon Young got the morning after he returned from a business trip to Africa. Two weeks ago he was preparing to give a lecture at William Jewell College when a student, who received a call from Young’s friend, broke the news to him.
Joni Wickham, director of public affairs for Mayor Sly James of Kansas City, Mo., is one of eight women in the mayor’s 12-person staff. She is currently working, with a team of other women city employees and the mayor himself, to implement the Women’s Empowerment Blueprint. Wickham agrees with the need for this blueprint on…
Leawood-based New Directions Behavioral Health is participating in a new national campaign aimed at reducing negative views about mental illness. The Stamp Out Stigma initiative, organized by the Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness, aims to reach 1 million people this year to change perceptions about mental illness and substance abuse, according to a news…
Bugging people about exercise is not necessarily the best way to encourage healthy behaviors among local residents, according to panelists who discussed health rankings for Kansas counties. More subtle approaches have worked in Allen, Sedgwick and Wyandotte counties, representatives from those communities said Monday at a forum held at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan., the…
Kyle Rogers is the co-founder and CEO of Knoda, a prediction tracking application, and a graduate from the inaugural class of the Spark Lab KC accelerator program.
Kansas Citians have many options when it comes to donating used clothes, but the most convenient option is often the ever-present clothing donation bin. While running errands, it’s not uncommon to pass a dozen of these bins, all owned by different companies: Disabled American Veterans, Planet Aid and Resolution Reuse are just a few of…
Experience the treasure-filled burial chambers of Egypt’s boy king just as British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered them 92 years ago. That’s the claim of the producers behind ‘The Discovery of King Tut’, the first stop in the country for a more than 1,000 artifact exhibit that has already been touring Europe since 2008. While the…
Lindsey Foat – The Hale Center for Journalism Help KCPT understand more about the issues surrounding the Kansas City Public Schools and the Missouri school transfer law. Major Funding for Education coverage on KCPT provided by Jo Anna Dale and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
It’s been one month since Kansas City entrepreneurs boarded the Midwest StartupBus and headed to Texas. Watch a final wrap-up of the buspreneurs’ journey above (edited by Hale Center reporter John McGrath), and read all about the trip here.