To Your Marks: 90 seconds with Rawxies
Rawxies founder Callie England may best be defined by her tenacity. England, who serves as CEO of the Kansas City-based vegan snack company, worked tirelessly in recent months to raise local funds — to the tune of $512,000 — that will accelerate her business. She moved her company from Petaluma, Calif. to Kansas City in 2013…
Take 5 for your health
Kansas Mom Charged in Marijuana Case to Sue Brownback, State Agency Lawyers for Garden City resident Shona Banda have prepared a lawsuit against Gov. Sam Brownback and the state agency that has custody of her child, claiming she has a constitutional right to use cannabis to treat her Crohn’s disease. Banda self-published a book and posted…
Who — and what — is defining the Kansas City food scene?
Discover the tastemakers and tastes defining the Kansas City food scene with “Today’s Special: Going Off Menu in Kansas City.” The series, premiering here on Monday, September 28, follows KCPT producer Cole Blaise (Show Me) and Recommended Daily‘s Jonathan Bender as they visit the establishments and people who are making the food, drinks, and innovations that are inspiring a local and national following….
KC Researchers Say Zebrafish May Hold Clue To Reversing Deafness In Humans
Early hearing loss was hard for Rob Jefferson to accept, even though it runs in his family. “No, it couldn’t have been me,” he says. “It wasn’t my hearing. Everybody was mumbling.” The 56-year-old resident of Belton, Missouri, started losing his hearing when he was 17 years old, the result of premature degeneration of the…
Drone Exhibit a chance to highlight Veteran entrepreneurs
For many veterans, finding employment can be difficult after their time in the Armed Forces ends. Now, in KC, instead of trying to find a job, some local veterans are creating their own, with the help of organizations like Bunker Labs KC, a community of veteran startup companies.
Your fave TEDxKC Speakers: Where are they now?
We catch up with three former TEDxKC speakers to take a look at their big ideas and what they are doing now. Speaker: Diana Kander Year: 2014 The ‘Idea Worth Spreading’: Most businesses are created with businesses, not people, in mind. Quote worth remembering: “Since the 1980s, we’ve had an explosion in the number of classrooms…
KC is becoming a ‘Smart City’: Any questions?
Thursday at Techweek, the Union Station Extreme Screen theatre was packed to the brim with people wanting to hear about “Emerging Kansas City: Building the City of the Future.” The topic of conversation: Kansas City’s Smart City initiative. In case you haven’t heard of the Smart City, here’s what it is in brief: In June…
Set Your Watch: 90 seconds with local innovators and entrepreneurs
It’s coming! Set your watch as we team up with Startland News to highlight Kansas City’s innovators and entrepreneurs, all in 90 seconds. “90 on the Clock” premieres next Wednesday, September 23 with Callie England, creator of Rawxies, as she talks about her East Bottoms business and its raw, vegan, and gluten- and soy-free cookies. The five-part series continues…
Finding solutions for the student-transfer problem
Kansas City building toward solutions for student-transfer problem When dozens of educators and social service professionals gathered recently in Kansas City to discuss the problem of transient students, the proposed solutions essentially boiled down to old-fashioned personal interventions and technology-driven assistance. The occasion for the gathering was a Student Mobility Summit convened by Kansas City…
The variety of life with spice and pancakes
Six words changed Nick DeFeo Jr.’s life. He was in the middle of his route, delivering spices for R.L. Schreiber. It was one of dozens of stops — a luncheonette run by a wily old cook. Jerry’s Café, 1209 W 103rd Street, was the second go round for Jerry Naster, the cook who once made Jerry’s…
Sound Smart This Weekend
THE REARVIEW: We can’t wrap up the week without talking about clocks and presidential debates. In summation, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed is transferring schools and accepting his White House invitation, and the fact the hashtag #hotdebateguy trended on Twitter during the Republican face-off and was a news story afterward may be all that we need to say…
Blue Springs educator named tops in Missouri
Linda Glasgow, a third-grade teacher at John Nowlin Elementary School in Blue Springs, has been named Missouri’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Big Data Summit keynote focuses on healthcare
As Techweek at Union Station in Kansas City, continues, the Big Data Summit began its series of lectures Wednesday morning discussing the next breakthrough in technology: healthcare. “The Big Data Summit is not just about the cool new app, it is not just about a new wearable technology,” said Don Peterson, emcee of the Big…
Truman Medical Centers Shutting Down Behavioral Health Emergency Department
Truman Medical Centers said it is closing its behavioral health emergency department effective immediately and will transfer current patients to the hospital’s inpatient facility or to another psychiatric facility.
News you can use: Rap’s delightfully good week
Rap is having a good week. The Associated Press reports that today in 1979, the Sugarhill Gang released “Rapper’s Delight,” considered to be the first rap record. Honoring the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 means we can re-watch last Wednesday’s broadcast of The Tonight Show, where…