2019 Kansas City Mayoral Election

Kansas City police investigate a homicide in late 2015

Kansas City No Violence Alliance Reboots

As mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, Sly James has grown accustomed to phone calls from the police chief about yet another homicide. Sometimes James goes to the scene, and the details of one, from a Sunday morning, are seared into his memory. A wailing mother, still in her nightgown, was kneeling in the middle of…

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KCMO police set up for badge for basics

Reducing Kansas City’s Violent Crime

This time, Danelle Williams and Vito Mazzara arrived prepared. The two Kansas City, Missouri, police officers didn’t want to be overwhelmed, like a previous evening last winter, when passersby at 35th Street and Prospect Avenue snapped up their inventory in less than 15 minutes. On this evening, Williams and Mazzara stationed themselves on a corner…

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worker guiding motorist to trash truck

Neighborhood Cleanup Removes Tons of Trash From Kansas City’s East Side

Just imagine what $1.5 billion would do for blight on Kansas City’s East Side. Well, if Bill Drummond had his way, the city would make sprucing up neighborhoods as big a financial priority as the billion-dollar-plus project to replace Kansas City International Airport. Drummond, a volunteer from the Manheim Park, an urban core neighborhood, spoke…

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Crosby Kemper greets Henry Klein

Meet Some of the KC Mayoral Candidates You Might Not Know

When Kansas City PBS and the Kansas City Public Library co-hosted a Kansas City mayoral forum, the two organizations limited participation to candidates that had reached at least 5 percent support in one independent public opinion poll prior to the March 20. Three candidates in the 11-person field did not meet that threshold. But those…

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mayoral candidates on stage

KC Mayoral Debate: 5 Key Takeaways

If you were home Wednesday evening enjoying some of your favorite Kansas City PBS programming (we hope!), you are excused for not attending the Kansas City mayoral debate moderated by KCPT’s own Nick Haines. We also understand if you were otherwise indisposed. Polls indicate a large chunk of the electorate remains undecided going into the…

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