Mike McGraw

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‘I Can’t Let It Go’ | Part II

EDITOR’S NOTE: This first-person account of one journalist’s attempts to shed light on potential problems in the U.S. justice system is part of a larger effort by KCPT and The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) to explore the meaning of justice in the context of the 1988 explosion in south Kansas City that killed six…

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‘I Can’t Let It Go’ | Part I

EDITOR’S NOTE: This first-person account of one journalist’s attempts to shed light on potential problems in the U.S. justice system is part of a larger effort by KCPT and The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) to explore the meaning of justice in the context of the 1988 explosion in south Kansas City that killed six…

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As MU looks hard at diversity, the world’s first J-School also needs to revisit a ‘notorious act of racism’.

In the wake of historic changes at my alma mater in Columbia, it seems as though everybody in a position of power there has been clawing for higher ground. University administrators who were forced to resign don’t want to be seen as racist, maybe just clueless. The Board of Curators, which actually thanked those former…

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1st Sgt. William McGraw, left, and two friends, somewhere in France, 1945. "Sarge" was father to reporter Mike McGraw, who would inherit the war-time letters between his parents. (Credit: McGraw family)

372 letters home: The paper trail of war

Thanksgiving Day 1942, Camp Sutton, N.C. — “…I also gave thanks for the country we live in. Honey you may not realize it but this is the most wonderful nation in all the world and if possible I’m going to do my best to help protect and defend it.”  That passage is from a letter that…

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Upside Down-Land: Bitter Harvest

As Cerner and other businesses use TIF to ensure their growth, Kansas and Missouri keep squeezing their poorest citizens.

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