What New Facebook Data Can Teach Us About Small Business Health And Pandemic...
From cocktail bars to comic book stories, small businesses turned to social media to keep in touch with customers — giving researchers a glimpse at what was going on in their communities.
View Article'Change Agent’: Michael Brown Jr.’s Parents Reflect On His Legacy 7 Years Later
Michael Brown Jr.'s father and stepmother are still hopeful the former Ferguson police officer who shot their son will be held accountable. Yet the family also is focused on healing.
View ArticleFirst Electricity, Now Internet: Rural Areas Struggle To Gain Infrastructure
The lack of high-speed internet is similar to another issue that rural communities faced decades ago — rural electrification.
View ArticleKansas City Nurses Are Overworked And Traumatized By 'Avoidable' Pandemic Surge
Increasing COVID-19 hospitalizations put increased mental strain on nurses, healthcare professionals say.
View ArticleCOVID-19 Challenged The Business Model At Kansas Universities And Revealed A...
Enrollment at Kansas colleges fell by 8.1% last fall — more than the national average. With continued uncertainty over COVID-19 and the highly contagious delta variant, universities could face the...
View ArticleJudge Orders Missouri To Immediately Allow Residents To Enroll In Expanded...
The state had argued it needed two months to begin accepting applications for the program approved by voters last year.
View ArticleHello Big Boy: World’s Largest Steam Engine Rolls Into Kansas City
Big Boy 4014 drifted into Union Station on Monday evening as part of a multi-state tour. The world's largest steam locomotive will leave Kansas City early Wednesday morning.
View ArticleKansas Makes A Deal With Advocates To Move People With Mental Illness Out Of...
The agreement promises services that could help hundreds of people leave nursing homes and live on their own.
View ArticleAt Missouri’s Bicentennial, Grappling With The State’s Legacy Of Slavery
The state's bucolic setting became the front line in America's westward expansion and in the fight over slavery.
View ArticleMissouri's Delta Variant Surge Could Be Peaking, But Hospitalizations Are...
Hospitalizations continue to climb, with 2,200 patients hospitalized across Missouri, as the state reported 4,213 new infections on Wednesday.
View ArticleWith Hospitals At Capacity, Missouri Will Spend $30 Million To Help Treat...
The money will be used to help hospitals with staffing and to set up five sites to give antibodies to high-risk patients.
View ArticleOverland Park And Kansas City Deemed Among America’s Worst Cities To Live...
The website LawnStarter ranked the 150 biggest cities in the U.S. on metrics including walkability, average commute times and pedestrian safety. Overland Park came in 144th and Kansas City ranked 135th.
View ArticleThe VA Is Mandating Vaccines For Its Health Care Employees, But Enforcement...
The Department of Veterans Affairs said its frontline health workers must get vaccinated by mid-September or they'll lose their jobs.
View ArticleNew Jackson County Jail Will Push Out Over 100 Mobile Home Residents: ‘I’m...
The deal to build a new detention center at the site of the Heart Village mobile park will displace families in a region already plagued by a shortage of affordable housing.
View ArticleFeds File Hate Crime Charge Against Kansas City Man Who Allegedly Shot Victim...
Malachi N. Robinson was also indicted two years ago by a Jackson County grand jury in connection with the same shooting.
View ArticleKansas City Public Schools First In Area To Require Vaccinations Of All Staff...
The school district already requires teachers, staff and students to wear masks inside school buildings.
View ArticleKansas City Housing Activists Honor Tenant They Say Died From Unsafe Conditions
The Gabriel Tower Tenants Union said Jessie Bey died after being robbed, but the Kansas City Police Department said they are not investigating the death.
View ArticleUSDA Expands Rural Broadband In Missouri, But Providers Face Equipment Shortages
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving $702,000 to help install broadband in central Missouri, but many utilities might lose out on the grants because of delays when ordering equipment and...
View ArticleKansas Investigates Obscure But Powerful Part Of The Drug Supply Chain:...
Being a middleman in the $1 trillion pharmaceutical industry is big business. The middlemen can even earn more than the drugmakers on prescription drugs.
View ArticleLenexa Police Officers Will Not Face Charges For Fatal Shooting Of Tennessee...
Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said officers were justified in the shooting because they believed the man would have harmed a woman in his hotel room.
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