Ridding KCMO Of Blighted Lots

illegal dumping site in 5600 block of Paloma Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri

Ellen Boyd, a resident of Kansas City, Missouri’s, Historic Northeast area, isn’t surrounded by vacant homes. But she has counted nearly two dozen of them in a nine-block stretch along the route to 27th Street and Indiana Avenue, where her son’s father lives. And there’s no question in her mind about what the city should…

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A Decades-Old Tax Question Resurfaces About Kansas City Schools

file photo of school board president in deseg case

Earl Fleer is nearly 80 years old now, and he lives about a dozen miles south of his hometown of Hermann, Missouri. But some months back, when he came across an online prompt for our curiousKC reporting initiative, his mind drifted back to his days as a public information officer in the mid-1970s for the…

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