Ridding KCMO Of Blighted Lots

illegal dumping site in 5600 block of Paloma Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri

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…

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Kansas City No Violence Alliance Reboots

Kansas City police investigate a homicide in late 2015

As mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, Sly James has grown accustomed to phone calls from the police chief about yet another homicide. Sometimes James goes to the scene, and the details of one, from a Sunday morning, are seared into his memory. A wailing mother, still in her nightgown, was kneeling in the middle of…

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