News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
KCPT Partners With KCTV5 to Investigate High School Football and Brain Injury
This week, the PBS investigative series Frontline took you inside the closed world of the NFL in a two-hour expose, League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis. “What did the NFL know, and when did they know it?” asks Mark Fainaru-Wada, whose new book on the correlation between football and brain trauma is the basis…
Concerning Concussions: Diagnosing Athletes in KC
Kansas City, Mo. – Emerging research suggests that the repeated hits football players endure during games and practice can cause permanent brain damage. “I think parents should be concerned,” said Dr. Randy Goldstein, the director of Youth Sports Medicine at The University of Kansas Hospital. “We are learning just in the last couple of years…
“If 10% of mothers begin to see this as a dangerous sport, this is the end of football in America."
This provocative quote comes from this week’s PBS Frontline expose League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis. Would you let your children play football? Connie and Ron Stile’s of Spring Hill, KS didn’t give it a second thought. But on October 28th, 2010, their son Nathan, a six foot, 175 pound senior and the…
Problems Persist in New KanCare System
KCPT Special Correspondent Sam Zeff takes anothe look at KanCare.
New $13.5 Million Culinary Academy Opens at Johnson County Community College
One of its most prized assets of Johnson County Community College has been its culinary program which has long been viewed as one of the best in the country. It has graduated some of the city’s top chefs, as well as some prestigious names in the cooking world. Now, they have a facility to…