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Understanding Islam in KC
At 79 years old, Marian Thomas is as inquisitive now as she was as a Sunday school student. She asked curiousKC: “What are the range of beliefs/practices within Kansas City’s Muslim community from ‘conservative’ to more ‘progressive’ and ‘liberal’?”
Not Quite a Hat Trick | Kansas City’s Two Seasons of Pro Hockey
Joe Lynch makes slow, easy circles on the Crown Center Ice Terrace testing the edge on his newly sharpened ice skates. A pair of sisters watch wide-eyed, waiting for help to tie the brown laces on their skates. I approach Lynch, an ice rink attendant, explaining that we might catch him in the background for a…
What Are the 3 Oldest Buildings in KC?
This is my first foray into answering a curiousKC question. I decided to answer (what I thought would be) a straightforward history question thrown our way by Kansas Citian Stacey McBride. “What are the top three oldest surviving buildings in Kansas City?” “How hard could it be?” I thought. It’s just math. A simple equation:…
Kansas City, This is the History Question We’re Digging Into
This story has been updated to include voting round results. Kansas Citians love their barbecue. But curiousKC has revealed something else: We also have an insatiable appetite for local history. So after combing through tons of questions submitted to us, we narrowed it down to three different topics: early TV, wagons and animals. It was…
What Do You Want to Know About the Candidates for Mayor?
Each month, you will have a chance to send us questions about anything and everything. Then we’ll curate up to four questions that go head-to-head in a voting round. The race to replace Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Sly James is heating up, and we need your help covering the election. So we wondered: Is there…