News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
We are Royal. Bring on the confetti.
Kansas City is ready to party. The Royals are the 2015 World Champions, and it seems like the entire town has shut down to celebrate what might be this generation’s World Series parade. There will be Royals. There will be fans. There will be a 2.3 mile parade route that stretches from the Sprint Center…
Take 5 for your health | Nov. 3
Truman Clinic Aims To Fill Health Care Hole In Downtown Kansas City Downtown Kansas City, Mo., has a new outpatient surgical center and the University of Kansas School of Medicine has some local competition as it trains the next generation of KC doctors. Leaders of Truman Medical Centers and the University of Missouri-Kansas City School…
Kansas Kids Count Shows Improvements But Persistent Problems
An annual report on child well-being in Kansas shows some positive trends, but they’re overshadowed by persistent problems. Among the improvements cited in the 2015 Kansas Kids Count report: There are fewer uninsured children in Kansas. “That dropped to 5.5 percent in 2014,” says Shannon Cotsoradis, president and CEO of Kansas Action for Children. “That’s an all-time low,…
Crown: Clenched
NEW YORK (AP) — The Kansas City Royals won their first World Series crown since 1985, rallying in the ninth inning when Eric Hosmer scrambled home to tie it and then breaking away in the 12th to beat the New York Mets 7-2 in Game 5 Sunday night. The daring Royals capped their postseason full…
USDA whistleblower claims censorship of pesticide research
A senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a whistleblower complaint on Wednesday accusing the federal agency of suppressing research findings that could call into question the use of a popular pesticide class that is a revenue powerhouse for the agrichemical industry. Jonathan Lundgren, a senior research entomologist with the USDA’s Agriculture Research…