News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
Take 5 For Your Health
Kansas City To Rethink Bike Plan Following Harsh Audit Kansas City will reassess its approach to accommodating cyclists, City Manager Troy Schulte told the city council Thursday. His announcement came in response to a new audit showing the city failing to achieve its goals of becoming more bike friendly. [FLEX-CONTENT] The audit concluded that the…
Building Life Sciences
Doctors, nurses, scientists—just some of the usual suspects that come to mind when you think of medicine. Real estate experts? Not so much. Yet, economic development pros are helping catalyze some promising developments within the Kansas City-area’s life sciences industry. One of the latest examples is a potential game-changer for the treatment of bladder cancer….
Growing Nebraska Poultry Industry Spurs Environmental Concerns
A proposal that would jumpstart the chicken business in Nebraska has some residents concerned about the potential impact on the environment and are trying to block or delay its construction. Costco, the warehouse retailer and grocery chain, plans to build a giant $300 million chicken slaughterhouse on the south side of the town of Fremont…
How Red And Green Became The Colors Of Christmas
Victorians used a lot of different color palettes, and even put Santa in blue and green robes. Thanks to Coca-Cola, things got a lot more uniform after 1931.
Seminaries Part of Metro’s Secret Sauce
Religion in the United States has been in transition for decades, as the percentage of the population identifying as Christian shrinks — and particularly as the religiously unaffiliated population has exploded to nearly 25 percent. The effects have rippled through the Kansas City area’s several seminaries and colleges that offer religious education. “The cultural challenges…