Perspectives
These vignettes are part of a collaboration between "Take Note: Our Schools. Our City. Our Future." and Johnson County Community College’s Advanced Reporting class. Reporting students, directed by Professor Mark Raduziner, interviewed and photographed their subjects, gathering stories from international and local students and families, and bringing perspectives from a wide range of voices. The…
KC WineWorks’ Anniversary Party & Other Weekend Possibilities
KC Wineworks (1829 McGee Street) celebrates its first anniversary in the Crossroads on Saturday from 2 to 10 p.m. Cheesy Street, a food truck dedicated to the art of the grilled cheese, will be on hand at the local winery that has been making everything from mulled wine to cider. Dive into the terroir of…
UMKC Downtown Arts Campus Receives Raves from Missouri Lawmakers
By Kevin Collison The planned UMKC Downtown Conservatory will offer students sweeping views of downtown Kansas City[/caption]After hitting a high note last month with overwhelming approval in the Missouri House, the proposed University of Missouri-Kansas City downtown arts campus is scheduled to debut next week before a tougher audience, the Missouri Senate. The $96 million…
Kemper Arena Redevelopment at Risk as Missouri Reviews Historic Tax Credit Program
By Kevin Collison The Missouri historic tax credit program, a development tool that’s revived scores of landmark buildings, is facing its most serious challenge in years, putting such major projects as the redevelopment of Kemper Arena in jeopardy. “After several years of raising alarms and nothing coming to pass, this year the tenor has really…
Hello Atelier | The Object Enthusiast and ‘The Stuff We Keep’
We are kicking off Season Two of Hello Atelier with a trip into the ceramics studio of Emily Reinhardt, otherwise known as The Object Enthusiast. Reinhardt’s pottery is both beautiful and functional – a combination that caught the eye of the social media world where she became a burgeoning online influencer with more than 100,000 Instagram…
City Bitty Farm Has Big Plans for Microgreens
Greg Garbos of City Bitty Farm walks among tiny crops that will be harvested soon in the midst of winter in southeast Kansas City, Missouri. Standing approximately one to two inches tall, arugula, sugar pea, mizuna, red cabbage, red stem radish, mustard, celery, and cilantro are just a few of the microgreens grown and harvested…
The Weekend Starts Today
Saturday is April Fool’s Day, meaning your social media feed will be filled with all sorts of ridiculous lies. Don’t believe any of them. Do believe, however, that there’s a ton of fun stuff to do around town this weekend. Unless, that is, you like sports. Beyond rooting for former K-State basketball coaches in the…
Hoping To Hire Locally, Growing Kansas City STEM Companies Try Luring Students Into Science
In the next few years, many tech businesses in Kansas City expect to do a lot of hiring, with starting salaries that most recent college graduates can only dream of. But will these jobs go to native Kansas Citians or to people recruited from other places? Some business and civic leaders are trying to tip…
PBS NewsHour: McCaskill launches investigation of opioid drugmakers
This morning from PBS NewsHour, read how Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, is taking on manufacturers of top-selling opioids to find out whether these drugmakers are creating a cycle of addiction instead of preventing it. See Flatland’s coverage of opioid addiction in the area and read additional health coverage. McCaskill launches investigation of opioid drugmakers…
Tap List | Spring Fling and Smoke Brewing Are Here
Get ready to swing into spring at the Spring Fling Homebrew Festival. Rodney Beagle, brewer at the forthcoming brewery Colony Handcrafted Ales, founded the first annual Spring Fling festival in partnership with Colony and the NKC Rotary Club. The Spring Fling features 30 homebrewers and 70 homebrews. It takes place from 5 to 8 p.m….
The Job: Gary Mosby
A stage manager has to make magic — to create an entirely new world on the stage that entices us in and holds us throughout the play. Gary Mosby, whose career as a designer and technical builder/director spans more than three decades, is one such magician. Mosby is known for his innovations. For UMKC’s…
The State of Our Metro Bridges? May Not Want to Shut Your Eyes
When it comes to the sorry state of Kansas City bridges, City Manager Troy Schulte says the one that keeps him up at night is the old Broadway Bridge over the Missouri River. But a Flatland analysis of bridge inspection data reveals that there are enough problem bridges in the metropolitan area to keep Schulte…
Corn Belt Farmers Wary As Leadership In Washington Shifts
As President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Agriculture, former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, goes in front of the Senate, it bucks a recent trend of Midwest leadership at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And it is making many in the farm country of the Midwest and Great Plans a little leery. Coupled with the…
Why More Farmers Are Making The Switch To Grass-Fed Meat And Dairy
Advocates of grass-grazing cattle say it’s better for the environment and the animals. But there’s another upside: Grass-fed meat and dairy fetch a premium that can help small farms stay viable.
Listening With Respect: Discussion Tackles Century-Old Issues
This year’s 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation raises two questions, in local terms: What, after all this time, still divides Kansas City’s Protestants and Catholics? What common ground is marked by the Venn circles of beliefs and practices of these two huge branches of Christianity? Leaders of my own congregation, Second…