Mike Sherry
Contributor and Former Senior Reporter
Stories by Mike Sherry
Keeping the Pressure On, His Memory Alive
Updated 1:38 p.m. July 29 The family of a man shot to death by Kansas City police three years ago has filed a wrongful death suit against the department, alleging that its policies were to blame for an incident that quickly spun out of control. The suit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for…
New Law Provides Funds For Missouri Localities To Set Up Drug Monitoring Systems
New federal legislation aimed at combating the nation’s opioid addiction crisis has a provision tailored specifically for Missouri, which is the only state without a database designed to prevent pill shopping among multiple dispensers. The language, inserted by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, makes counties and municipalities eligible for federal funds that help…
Blue Springs is Latest Battleground For Education Program
Laura Shepherd loved it when the kids entering Franklin Smith Elementary got a morning hug from the principal. But that was last year. This year, Shepherd hated watching building leaders at the Blue Springs, Missouri, school greet her fourth-grader and other students with handshakes. “I’m like, ‘They are not mini-adults. They are kids,’” she said….
KC Life Sciences Conference Connects Industry, Academia
Researchers and industry representatives opened a two-day life sciences conference in Kansas City today, and one aim is to expedite development of ideas for improving patient care. The Regional Translational Medicine Meeting is organized by the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute, and the institute’s chief executive said presentations this morning by University of Missouri-Kansas…
Lee’s Summit Students Win Cybersecurity Crown
And the winner is …. Team Sudo from the Lee’s Summit School District. The high school club from Summit Technology Academy earned top honors in a 12-team field at the finals of the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, held last week in Baltimore. Taking its name from an abbreviation for an old computer command…
From Maestros to Medicine: A ‘Healthy’ Dose of Computer Animation at UMKC
The University of Missouri-Kansas City is a diverse, urban institution with approximately 1,200 full- and part-time faculty dispersed across dozens of academic areas. As multifaceted as it is, academicians from the disparate fields of fine arts and medicine have managed to find their way to Associate Professor Greg King in the School of Computing and…
New KCMO Schools Chief Looking to Stay
The average tenure of a superintendent in an urban school district is about three years, and that trend has pretty much held true in Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) for decades. But in introducing himself to the community this morning, the school district’s newest superintendent, Mark T. Bedell, 41, said in that sense he is…
Grocery Store Could Be on Horizon for 27th and Troost
A Kansas City developer with experience around Beacon Hill is talking with the city about a project that could bring a grocery store to a community that has long sought easy access to healthy food options. City Development Specialist Shawn Hughes said Thursday that UC-B Properties has submitted a concept for a mixed-use development on…
More Charter School Real Estate News
Another Kansas City, Missouri, charter school has secured classroom space. Citizens of the World Kansas City (CWCKC) said Thursday that it’s a week or two away from finalizing a lease agreement on a building on the northeast corner of Broadway and Armour boulevards. That news followed Wednesday’s announcement by Academy for Integrated Arts that it…
KC Charter School Purchases Former Bowling Alley
A Kansas City, Missouri, charter school that teaches core content through the arts plans to make a former bowling alley its new home. The Academy for Integrated Arts (AFIA) said Tuesday that it has purchased a roughly 40,000-square foot building at 7910 Troost Ave., built in 1955 to house King Louie East. AFIA is an…