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‘Ten Years to Save the Planet’: Kansas City Metro’s Small-town Mayors Take Up Climate Fight

By | April 22, 2022 | 0
Smithville Mayor Damien Boley on a bike path.

Mayors and local officials founded Climate Action KC, and are taking measurable steps to reduce emissions and create healthier communities throughout the Kansas City metro.

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Imagine That: What If Police Unconditionally Respected the Community?

By | April 6, 2022 | 0
A row of police line up in the middle of the street on the Country Club Plaza, flanked by demonstrators on the left and right.

Two former Kansas City Police Department officers are now training people in how to use “unconditional respect” to help reform law enforcement.

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How Kansas Could Lose Billions in Land Values as its Underground Water Runs Dry

By | April 1, 2022 | 0
Center pivot irrigation systems like this one in Finney County pump water up from the Ogallala aquifer to spray on crops. This part of southwest Kansas experienced some of the state's worst aquifer declines last year as drought pushed farmers to pump more water from underground.

The water in the Ogallala aquifer is worth billions of dollars to western Kansas, but it’s rapidly disappearing. And it’s been a challenge to find ways to slow the depletion.

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As Fertilizer Pollutes Tap Water in Small Towns, Rural Kansans Pay the Price

By | March 30, 2022 | 0
Former Haviland mayor Robert Ellis stands between pipes inside the small town's multimillion-dollar water treatment plant.

For towns with only a few hundred residents, keeping tap water clean and safe can pose a crippling expense. The predicament is likely to become more common in western Kansas as farm chemicals seep into dwindling water supplies.

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A Missouri Radio Station Still Broadcasts Kremlin Programming, Even as Russia Invades Ukraine

By | March 18, 2022 | 0
KCXL owner Pete Schartel says he fulfilled a childhood dream when he bought his first radio station in 1994.

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, so do broadcasts of what critics decry as Kremlin-funded propaganda on KCXL, a radio station in Liberty, Missouri. Pressure is mounting for KXCL to end broadcasts that have kept the station in business.

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