News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
Missouri’s Refusal To Expand Medicaid Leaves Hospitals Feeling The Pain
It’s a sweltering Monday afternoon, and in the emergency room of Truman Medical Centers near downtown Kansas City, a patient complains of excruciating abdominal pain. The attending physician advises her there’s only so much he can do. “The reality is you can get whatever pain medication I’m able to give you in an effort to…
Kansas City Week In Review Tackles the Minimum Wage Decision
In the most recent episode of “Kansas City Week in Review,” host Nick Haines and a guest panel discuss the council’s decision last week to raise the city’s minimum wage. Also, “Week In Review” weighs in on the National Council de La Raza convention, Kansas tax hikes, the exodus of teachers from Kansas, and the gay…
The science behind farm herbicides and cancer
Farmers count on chemical herbicides to keep their fields weed-free. But an international panel of scientists who studied two of the most heavily used farm chemicals to determine whether they could cause cancer, said exposure to weed-killing chemicals could come at a cost. In the last few months, scientists brought together by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, considered glyphosate and 2,4-D.
Missouri Ordered To Name Lethal Injection Drug Provider
Missouri must disclose the name of the pharmacy from which it buys lethal injection drugs, a circuit court judge has ruled in yet another case challenging the Department of Corrections’ refusal to provide such information. The case was filed last year in Cole County Circuit Court by five news organizations, including The Kansas City Star…
Anxiety over changing farmworker housing rules
Many of the more than 3 million migrant farmworkers that plant and pick the fruits and vegetables we eat in the U.S. live on the farms they work for. But the rules that govern farmworker housing may be changing, worrying both farmers and migrant worker advocates. For decades, farmworker housing standards have been governed by…