Lady Pitmasters Work to Break Barbecue’s Gender Stereotypes

By Jill Wendholt Silva | September 16, 2025

Veronica Scroggins, a Kansas City, Missouri, pitmaster, is one of the Black women challenging convention in the barbecue world.

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Convicted Felons and the Right to Vote in Kansas

By Solomon Shields | September 15, 2025

It is true that in some states, mainly in the South, a felony conviction bars a person from voting. But the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas wants Kansans to know that felons who have served their time are eligible to vote in the Sunflower State. Anyone who says otherwise is peddling misinformation, said Micah Kubic, ACLU…

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Blocked from seeing her son, a Missouri mother fights to change the state’s guardianship law to help others like him

By Sarah Schumacher | September 14, 2025

When Twila Foley brought a Christmas gift for her son, Christopher, to his nursing facility in Plattsburg, Missouri, she was not allowed to enter the building’s lobby. Instead, she watched him open his gift — a pillow with a picture of his dog, Oakley, printed on it — through a glass door. Christopher asked the…

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Lawrence Farmers’ Market Rolls Out Double Up Program for Protein

By Sarah Schumacher | August 18, 2025
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