‘Homefront’ Increases Mental Health Resources for Area Veterans, Families

Lemuel E. Kimes at VA Medical Center in Kansas City

Valetta Tsangaris met her husband, a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Marines, when she worked as an aviation machinist during Operation Desert Storm. His tour continued after she returned home, but when he finally joined her, he was frequently angry, verbally abusive and struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. They eventually divorced. Tsangaris now works with…

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Calls for Peace, not Pacifism

Drepung Gomang Monks chant a benediction prayer.

It was dark and cold outside Saturday as celebrants filled the venue on Kansas City’s West Side. But this crowd was not gearing up for a party in the final hours of the year; it was instead a predawn gathering at the Rime Buddhist Center for the city’s 31st annual World Peace Meditation. [FLEX-CONTENT] By…

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Building Life Sciences

Andy Williams theater in Branson, Missouri. Williams died of bladder cancer

Doctors, nurses, scientists—just some of the usual suspects that come to mind when you think of medicine. Real estate experts? Not so much. Yet, economic development pros are helping catalyze some promising developments within the Kansas City-area’s life sciences industry. One of the latest examples is a potential game-changer for the treatment of bladder cancer.…

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Resurrecting A Neighborhood

Wallace Hartsfield and his wife outside the youth resource center

As the early Sunday morning service at Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church let out recently, Deacon Roosevelt Hall was happy to explain the large round button pinned to his lapel. “I’m committed,” it read. Yes, Hall said, it was about the 121-year-old congregation’s recently launched building renovation project. But that’s not all Metropolitan’s members are committed…

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Stiff Tab For Vital Statistics

Back in February, a nonprofit group called Reclaim the Records filed requests for Missouri birth and death listings from 1910 through 2015. The California-based outfit describes itself as a “group of genealogists, historians, researchers, and open government advocates who are filing Freedom of Information requests to get public data released back into the public domain.”…

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