News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
If at first your experiment gets blown up in a rocket, try, try again
Sitting at a lab table over the lunch hour at St. Peter’s School in Kansas City, Missouri, a group of eighth graders are loading freeze dried E.coli bacteria into plastic tubes. It’s all part of a special package destined for the International Space Station. And it’s not the first time students Holden O’Keefe, Eamon Shaw…
Kansas City mental health clients walk the walk
Could you walk an average of seven miles each day for three months straight? That’s what you’d need to do to keep up with Ed Rogers, who was one of the peak perambulators in the 50 Million Step Challenge organized by the Metropolitan Council of Community Mental Health Centers, which includes seven agencies. Rogers was…
How a Denver company is improving treatment for eating disorders in KC
A highly regarded eating-disorder treatment center is about to make the Kansas City area its first site outside of its home state of Colorado, a development local clinicians said would help fill a critical gap in services here. The Eating Disorder Center of Denver expects to open its partial hospitalization program on Dec. 29, according to local program…
Children’s Mercy Hospital develops app for infant heart defects
About 3,000 infants are born each year with single-ventricle heart defects. While that’s a relatively small number, for the newborns’ families the diagnosis can be devastating, says Dr. Girish Shirali, co-director of the Ward Family Heart Center at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. “It’s very difficult for families, because nobody expects this. So it…
What do Gov. Brownback’s tax cuts mean for businesses and entrepreneurs?
Last year, Republican Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and the state legislature enacted huge tax cuts, slashing income taxes and exempting some business income from state taxes. Now, as the election approaches, the governor is struggling to persuade voters that the cuts have actually fueled an economic comeback for the state. Federal statistics show that the…