Tammy Worth
Stories by Tammy Worth
Parsing Medicaid Expansion in Missouri
On Tuesday, voters in Missouri will decide if the state will become the 39th in the country to expand its Medicaid program.
Tough Choices: Removing Parents From Nursing Homes During Pandemic
As COVID-19 rages in nursing homes across the country, families are making tough decisions about whether to leave loved ones in, take them out, delay the process or avoid them altogether.
Age of Coronavirus: Pandemic Exposes Health Insurance Gaps
With roughly half of the nation - about 156 million people - getting health insurance through their employers, industry experts say the COVID-19 public health crisis could morph into a health insurance disaster.
Age of Coronavirus: Maintaining Mental Health in Seclusion
Health care providers offer tips on maintaining mental health during the stay-at-home order in the Kansas City area prompted by the coronavirus outbreak.
Ridding KCMO Of Blighted Lots
Ellen Boyd, a resident of Kansas City, Missouri’s, Historic Northeast area, isn’t surrounded by vacant homes. But she has counted nearly two dozen of them in a nine-block stretch along the route to 27th Street and Indiana Avenue, where her son’s father lives. And there’s no question in her mind about what the city should…
A Decades-Old Tax Question Resurfaces About Kansas City Schools
Earl Fleer is nearly 80 years old now, and he lives about a dozen miles south of his hometown of Hermann, Missouri. But some months back, when he came across an online prompt for our curiousKC reporting initiative, his mind drifted back to his days as a public information officer in the mid-1970s for the…
What’s The Story Behind That Shiny Spire In Independence, Missouri?
Like many Metropolitan-area residents, Valorie Wells Fenton has driven by the silver spire that corkscrews skyward in Independence, Missouri. She heard it’s the place Mormons expect Jesus to return and wondered if the site may be to Mormons like the Vatican is to Catholics. After talking with family and friends about the church, she realized…
How Did Trails West Influence The Growth of Westport?
Gary Jenkins has always been interested in the trails that ran through town before Kansas City was even on the map. He volunteers on camping trips with teenagers from the Kansas State School for the Blind along the Oregon Trail. And near his home at 44th Street and State Line Road in Kansas City, Missouri,…
Sex, pregnancy and foster care
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, teen pregnancy costs taxpayers more than $9 billion a year in health care and other costs. Ironically enough, those other costs include foster care. The irony lies with the fact that foster kids themselves are often the ones responsible for teen pregnancies. According to a…
Two Kids And A Job: Former Foster Youth Struggles To Fit In Education
Kierra Kinton began living with her grandmother at the age of 3. When Kinton was about 13, her grandmother decided she couldn’t manage the teen any longer, and Kinton began her path through Missouri institutions. Her grandmother sought help through a handful of behavioral health organizations, including Crittenton Children’s Center and Synergy Services, both of…
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