Nick Haines
Executive Producer of Public Affairs at Kansas City PBS
Nick Haines leads KCPBS' news and public affairs television division and is the executive producer and host of Kansas City Week in Review.
Stories by Nick Haines
Sharks, Wizard Wands, and Rental Inspections
KCPT’s Nick Haines, executive director of public affairs and Week in Review host, picks out the big stories of the week ahead and the interesting stories you may have missed. KC Zoo Plans $75 Million Aquarium In the last decade, the Kansas City Zoo has added a polar bear exhibit and a penguin attraction. Now…
The Fight Over Tailgating, Power and The Off-Ramp
KCPT’s Nick Haines, executive director of public affairs and Week in Review host, picks out the big stories of the week ahead and the interesting stories you may have missed. Loyalty or Mutiny? Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer recently promised to support his Republican rival Kris Kobach in the fall campaign. But this week, Colyer’s campaign chair…
Ginger Rogers and The Kansas Governor’s Race
KCPT’s Nick Haines, executive director of public affairs and Week in Review host, picks out the big stories of the week ahead and the interesting stories you may have missed. Orman Remains on The Ballot Independent candidate for Kansas Governor,Greg Orman will stay on the November ballot after a state board rejected a challenge to his…
A Look Back at the Deadly ‘68 Riots
Fifty years ago this April, Kansas City experienced deadly riots that put the national spotlight on our city. They left six people dead, hundreds arrested and multiple blocks of the city in flames. Frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms and outraged at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters in Kansas…
Week In Review: School Choice in Missouri
Across Missouri, there’s swirling speculation that Gov. Eric Greitens and the State Board of Education plan to oust education commissioner Margie Vandeven and make a bigger push for the expansion of charter schools. Watch KCPT Week in Review host Nick Haines, Mara Rose Williams, Sam Zeff, Scott Parks and Dave Helling discuss the issues during…
Kansas City Week in Review | Take Note Superintendents Roundtable
With education stories making the news both nationally and locally, this Take Note Special addresses education issues in the metro, from funding to how changes in Washington impact area school districts. Nick Haines talks to area superintendents Dennis Carpenter, Hickman Mills; Todd White, Blue Valley; Dale Herl, Independence; and Patricia All, Olathe, about how they…
Common Grounds | Flip the Script: A Police Take on the Issues
One of the story lines of this election year has been alarm over law and order in cities and police shootings of unarmed black Americans. This week in our Common Grounds coffee conversation series, we head to Kansas City, Kansas, where we get a police take on that polarizing issue. We bring together five KCK…
Common Grounds | Teens Weigh In on Voting
For many first time voters, 2016 is an exciting, but head-scathingly confusing election year. Daniel Serres, 18, just graduated from Van Horn High School in Independence, Missouri and is voting in his first election. He’s received notice through the mail that he needs to sign up for selective service to the military, and Gillette marked…
Week in Review: Marking the first anniversary of the JCC shootings
This week marks the one year anniversary of the shooting deaths at the Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom. And, low wage protests expand in Kansas City, but are they having an impact?
KC week in review: elections, minimum wage and the Schweich issue
The news sounded implausible. Just weeks after Missouri State Auditor and candidate for governor Tom Schweich took his own life, his aide and communications chief, Spence Jackson, is found dead in his Jefferson City apartment of a single gunshot wound to the head. Also on this edition of “Kansas City Week in Review”: Seattle and…