COVID-19

A completed puzzle of a farm landscape.

Primetime for Puzzles? A Global Pandemic

Forget toilet paper, the world is running low on jigsaw puzzles. In a recent interview with NPR, Carol Glazer, president of Massachusetts puzzle and family game company Ceaco, shared details about the company’s spike in sales that she never saw coming. “Around the second week of March, we noticed sales at one of our largest…

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Artists in Residence: Devon Carney

Artists in Residence talks to Devon Carney, artistic director of Kansas City Ballet, about the challenges of running the company virtually during the stay-at-home order forced by the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Kansas City Braces for Big Financial Blow From Pandemic

A Brookings Institution analysis suggests Kansas City’s municipal budget may be particularly vulnerable to a recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Kansas City Restaurants Experiment, Adapt to Survive Amid Pandemic

Flatland features some of the most creative strategies deployed by Kansas City restaurateurs to survive the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Age of Coronavirus: Deciding Who Lives… And Who Dies

Kansas City area health care providers are pondering the hardest question – deciding who lives and who dies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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