Take 5 for your health
Health Advocates Will Push To Add E-Cigarettes To Kansas Smoking Ban Kansas’ ban on smoking tobacco products in most public places has been in place since 2010. In those five years, the smoke-free atmosphere of bars, restaurants and other indoor spots has become the norm. Erica Anderson, a health promotion specialist for the Lawrence-Douglas County…
My Farm Roots: Looking to the future
Jeff Siegfried knows just about anything you’d ever want to find out about a 50-acre corn field in northern Colorado. The 24-year-old easily rattles off the various gadgets he uses to measure soil moisture, plant health, air temperature. Standing underneath one of his research station’s at a Colorado State University experimental farm, Siegfried is decked…
It's TIF in a GIF
Here’s a quick summary of TIF — Tax Increment Financing — what it is, how it works, and its impact on the Kansas City metro. Flatland’s Mike McGraw and The Pitch‘s Steve Vockrodt examine the project in recent reports and join KCPT’s Nick Haines on this week’s edition of Kansas City Week in Review.
Rockers record 'Love Song' for the third rock from the sun
Paul McCartney, Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow and Fergie have joined forces to record a song about climate change. Sean Paul, Leona Lewis and Colbie Caillat also appear on “Love Song to the Earth,” which was released Friday on iTunes and Apple Music via Connect. Proceeds from the track will benefit the United Nations Foundation…
North Kansas City Food Trucks? Maybe Not
During the month of August, neighborhood folks and foodies visiting North Kansas City’s Macken Park enjoyed a more diverse choice of local food than is usually offered in the city. The recent arrival of food trucks transformed the relatively quiet park into a hub of sophisticated lunch options, offering everything from authentic Cuban sandwiches, to colorful upscale tacos, to Asian-fusion cuisine, all made fresh on the spot.
Get in, get your ramen, and get out
Despite its small size, Josh Eans knows that his latest venture comes with big expectations. He’s standing inside the 450-square-foot garage next to Happy Gillis Café & Hangout –the restaurant he owns with his wife Abbey-Jo Eans. A short hallway connects the luncheonette with the future home of the Columbus Park Ramen Shop. “We want…
Sound smart this weekend
THE REARVIEW: (Three stories to have in your wheelhouse) 5 Skills President Obama Will Need To Survive A Day With Bear Grylls (NPR) Bear Grylls is the President of Awesomeness, what with his mad post-apocalyptic survival skills. So it’s fitting he’s taking the actual POTUS on a trek through the Alaskan wilderness for an episode of Running Wild with…
Can You Use That In A Sentence? Dictionary Adds New Words
Oxford Dictionaries has added a slew of new words, and let’s just say these awesomesauce entries will have you fangirling. Rly. Many entries are food-related: fast-casual, adj.: denoting or relating to a type of high-quality self-service restaurant offering dishes that are prepared to order and more expensive than those available in a typical fast-food restaurant cakeage, n.: (informal) a charge made…
Upside Down-Land: Bitter Harvest
As Cerner and other businesses use TIF to ensure their growth, Kansas and Missouri keep squeezing their poorest citizens.
Upside Down-Land: Cerner's TIF Transplant
Neal Patterson personifies 21st-century Kansas City entrepreneurialism. He is his generation’s Henry Bloch or Joyce Hall, the head of a company he started from nothing — Cerner Corporation — and made KC’s most prosperous business. Cerner, a health-information technology firm, makes more than $3 billion a year. The company’s market capitalization — the value of…
Take 5 for your health
Officials, Farmers Preparing For Fall Bird Flu Outbreak Amid Ongoing Mystery Farmers and agriculture officials are gearing up for another round of bird flu this fall, an outbreak they fear could be worse than the devastating spring crisis that hit egg layers and turkeys in the Midwest, wiped out entire farms and sent egg prices…
Welcome to the working week
Using figures from the American Time Use Survey, NPR’s Lam Thuy Vo created this graphic and story What Americans Actually Do all Day Long, In 2 Graphics in 2012. Has much changed for any of us?
Lawsuit Alleges Medicare Fraud At Lawrence Memorial Hospital
A former emergency room nurse at Lawrence Memorial Hospital has filed a federal “whistleblower” lawsuit alleging that the hospital falsified patient records to obtain higher Medicare and Medicaid payments. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan. on behalf of Megen Duffy alleges that top hospital officials knew about the fraud, which…
A challenge, from TEDxKC Speaker Martin Pistorius: Expand your possibility
There’s a long list of things TEDxKC speaker Martin Pistorius can’t do, speaking and walking being one of them. There’s another list, a list that rivals the first one in length. That is the list of things he can do: run a business, express himself expertly, engage and command a room like he did at…
TEDxKC audiences get Led Zep tones, with 'kid-rock' style
In April, long before young percussion rock group the Louisville Leopards traveled to Kansas City for a surprise performance at TEDxKC, Ozzy Osbourne — yes, the doom metal legend former frontman of Black Sabbath rumored to dine on bats — wrote to the group lauding them for their rendition of his “Crazy Song” and announcing…