News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
Tenderloin Grill Moves to City Market, Pig Snoots and All
By Kevin Collison The Tenderloin Grill has relocated to the City Market after serving its namesake speciality, along with food including hamburgers and pig snoot sandwiches at 900 Southwest Boulevard for 90 years. The new location takes over the space in the northeast corner formerly occupied by Taste of Brazil. As part of the transaction,…
Missouri Lawmakers Enter Final Week of Session with Major GOP Priorities Unfinished
Changes to the initiative petition process and a ban on transgender health care are bills Missouri Republicans hope to finalize before the 2023 session ends.
Nick’s Picks | COVID Emergency Rules End, Mother’s Day Looms
This week in Kansas City will see COVID emergency rules end, transgender debates continue, trash talk at City Hall and Mother’s Day approach.
Noka Brings an Elegant Touch of Asia and Memory to Martini Corner
By Kevin Collison Amante Domingo’s new restaurant, Noka, is a homage to his father based on his dying words two years ago. “He was on his death bed and he told me he wanted to take me to a new sushi place in the Yucatan,” he said. “I built the restaurant he would have wanted…
Negro Leagues Museum Swings for $25M Fundraising Fence
By Kevin Collison The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum has launched an ambitious fundraising effort to develop a campus at 18th and The Paseo that would combine a new 30,000 square-foot building with the historic Paseo YMCA. With a lead-off contribution of $1 million from Bank of America, the institution dedicated to the history of one…