Quinton Lucas

A Ride-Along with KC’s Mayoral Candidates in the Northland

Kansas City mayoral candidates Quinton Lucas and Jolie Justus tour through the Chaumiere neighborhood in the Northland to see first-hand the issues residents care about and share what they plan to do.

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Tom Ribera stands in front of a house he is rehabbing

What Will It Take for Banks to Invest in Kansas City’s Low-Income Neighborhoods?

Learn how area lenders want to help rebuild and reinvest in Kansas City’s low-income neighborhoods.

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

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…

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What Does It Take to Land the Gig as Kansas City’s Mayor?

Here’s Flatland’s primer on the what it takes to be Kansas City’s mayor.

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Kansas City police investigate a homicide in late 2015

Kansas City No Violence Alliance Reboots

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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