News & Issues

Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.

Petitioners with Missourians for Healthy Families and Fair Wages unload dozens of boxes of signatures to deliver to the Secretary of State.

Boone County Becomes Focus of Missouri Initiative Petition Campaigns Following Redistricting

By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent | June 7, 2024

The 2022 Missouri congressional map split Boone County in half. Will it make a difference in the effort to get abortion on the ballot in November?

A crowd of people gather in the background of an image, taken down a row of boxes, low to the ground. The boxes are full of yellow and red tomatoes and read "Missouri Grown" and "Fresh Missouri Produce"

Do We Have a Bid? Auctions Sell Produce by the Lot

By Cami Koons | June 6, 2024

Produce auctions in Missouri and Kansas allow wholesale buyers to shop local, offering a key link in the food distribution chain.

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes

Kansas Lawmakers to Target Chiefs During Special Session

By Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector | June 5, 2024

Kansas lawmakers are pushing to discuss legislation to lure the Kansas City Chiefs from Missouri during an upcoming special session beginning June 18.

President Joe Biden, left, speaks about an executive order in the East Room at the White House.

Border Issue Looms Over Cambio Center Conference in KC

By Mary Sanchez | June 5, 2024

The Cambio de Colores Conference convenes in Kansas City this week in the wake of President Joe Biden’s new executive order capping asylum seekers.

Report: Rural America Produces Greenhouse Gasses on Behalf of Urban and Suburban Areas

By Claire Carlson, The Daily Yonder | June 4, 2024

At least 36% of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from rural America, but they’re mostly used to produce energy and food for urban and suburban areas.