News & Issues
Grand Avenue Temple Closes, Downtown Sanctuary Since 1912
GUEST COMMENTARY By Bryan Cisler After more than 100 years, today (June 27) was the final service for Grand Avenue Temple – a Methodist church in downtown Kansas City at Ninth and Grand Avenue. I wasn’t a member there but I decided to attend the last service. I hung around afterwards and talked to some…
How One Kansas City Neighborhood Is Transforming Its Dangerous And Abandoned Buildings
In northeast Kansas City, the Lykins Neighborhood Association has used Missouri’s Abandoned Housing Act to reclaim abandoned and dilapidated homes and turn them over to rehabbers for renovation. The results have been promising.
curiousKC | Why do Companies Treat Insurance for Mental Health Differently Than Physical Health?
Mental and physical health are not mutually exclusive. When one suffers, the other can suffer as well. So why, one curiousKC reader inquired, do some insurance companies treat them differently? The short answer is that they shouldn’t. By federal law, insurance companies are required to maintain parity between mental health and physical health. “If, for…
Sinkers Lounge Plans Fall Tee Time in P&L District
By Kevin Collison Sinkers Lounge is finally out of the Covid rough and plans to tee off this fall in the Power & Light District next door to its companion venue, Blade & Timber. The new upscale indoor mini-golf concept had been scheduled to open last summer at 53 W. 13th St. but the pandemic…
Nick’s Picks | Prepping for Independence Day, Tiny Homes Vote and Medicaid Breakthrough
Nick’s Picks offers your guide to the news week ahead in Kansas City.