Todd Feeback | KCPT News On Friday, Oct. 11, the planned execution of Alan Nicklasson, was stopped by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon. Nicklasson was scheduled to be injected with a lethal dose of the drug propofol. This was the first time drug was to be used in an execution. Ordinarily, it is used as an…
This week, the PBS investigative series Frontline took you inside the closed world of the NFL in a two-hour expose, League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis. “What did the NFL know, and when did they know it?” asks Mark Fainaru-Wada, whose new book on the correlation between football and brain trauma is the basis…
Kansas City, Mo. – Emerging research suggests that the repeated hits football players endure during games and practice can cause permanent brain damage. “I think parents should be concerned,” said Dr. Randy Goldstein, the director of Youth Sports Medicine at The University of Kansas Hospital. “We are learning just in the last couple of years…
This provocative quote comes from this week’s PBS Frontline expose League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis. Would you let your children play football? Connie and Ron Stile’s of Spring Hill, KS didn’t give it a second thought. But on October 28th, 2010, their son Nathan, a six foot, 175 pound senior and the…
KC Startup Village celebrated their first birthday with a block party.
KCPT Special Correspondent Sam Zeff takes anothe look at KanCare.
One of its most prized assets of Johnson County Community College has been its culinary program which has long been viewed as one of the best in the country. It has graduated some of the city’s top chefs, as well as some prestigious names in the cooking world. Now, they have a facility to…
Kansas City, MO – The IKC 2013 Unconference had entrepreneurs colliding Thursday inside the H&R Block world headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, but that’s actually a good thing. The event was aiming to increase “collision density” in Kansas City – that is, the number of entrepreneurs living within an area that can connect and network…
Kansas City, Mo. – The theme of Dr. Steve Green’s State of the Schools Address on Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 at Paseo Academy was a ‘new day’ for Kansas City Public Schools. “Today I am proud to say that the state of the Kansas City Public Schools is much stronger, undeniably healthier and our achievement…
Kansas City, MO — Kansas City business and civic leaders along with organizations such as BASE KC and the American Sustainable Business Council attended a discussion September 27th at UMKC’s new Bloch Executive Hall of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The topic of the event was the local impact of climate change on businesses. The two-part meeting…