News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
Five Ways You’re a Mosquito Magnet
Between the torrential downpours this holiday weekend followed by bursts of hot, humid sunshine, conditions are ripe for one scourge of summer: mosquitos. And whether you’re at a picnic or out by the lake this summer, you’ll probably end up swatting at some of the flying pests. But if you feel like you’re being swarmed more…
Does Your Body Really Refresh Itself Every 7 Years?
The latest episode of the podcast Invisibilia explores the idea that personality — something a lot of us think of as immutable — can change over time. That got Invisibilia co-host Lulu Miller wondering if anything about us stays the same. Do all the cells in our body turn over every seven years as is…
These Midwest Farmers Think They Know The Next Trendy ‘Superfruit’
Peggy Fogle and her dog, Abe, walk among rows of aronia berry bushes on the family property outside Carlisle, Iowa. Plants on the ends of rows are smaller from years of being nibbled by deer and rabbits. But on nearly nine acres, filling four separate fields, the bushes are reaching maturity, eight years after Fogle…
Common Grounds | Discussing Life After Orlando
This week’s episode of “Common Grounds” comes to you from our down-the-street neighbor, the Good Samaritan Project, where we visited with six members of Kansas City’s LGBT community. Ash R. Allee, Gina Vidal, Greg Razer, Hugo Ximello-Salido, Matt Parker Green, and Stuart Hinds were the diverse coffee conversationalists who gathered at the project’s offices,…
‘Look Out St. Peter, You Got Somebody Coming’
Cheryl Christie (Love) Thompson, widow of the late civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Nelson “Fuzzy” Thompson, was remembered Tuesday as a force for good in her own right and as an unyielding ally of her husband. Thompson, who died June 17 at the age of 71, was welcomed home in a ceremony at Thatcher’s Funeral…