Episodios

  • Downtown parking's big-ticket fees

    Downtown parking's big-ticket fees
    Sep 27 2024
    Kansas City's new downtown parking policy during events is catching some drivers by surprise. Plus: Why did a master bootmaker from Italy choose small-town Kansas to continue his craft?
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    13 m
  • Kansas housing prices are making homelessness worse

    Kansas housing prices are making homelessness worse
    Sep 26 2024
    Many of the people in Kansas who are homeless do have an income, but housing is simply too expensive to afford a place to live. Plus: Missouri law doesn't clearly IVF, so what's the risk of the procedure being outlawed?
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    15 m
  • Of pawpaws and prairies

    Of pawpaws and prairies
    Sep 25 2024
    Missouri has a tropical fruit of its very own: the pawpaw. Although this Midwest native is getting more popular, you're unlikely to find them in a grocery store yet. Plus: While corn and soybeans dominate the Midwestern landscape today, some farmers are integrating strips of native prairie back into their fields.
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    13 m
  • Kansas City’s pharmacist walkout, 1 year later

    Kansas City’s pharmacist walkout, 1 year later
    Sep 24 2024
    Kansas City pharmacists walked off the job last September to protest working conditions and brought widespread attention to the troubled retail pharmacy business. The industry is battling economic pressures, changed buying habits and labor shortages.
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    13 m
  • Johnson County's homeless shelter plan is officially dead

    Johnson County's homeless shelter plan is officially dead
    Sep 23 2024
    It’s back to the drawing board for Johnson County and its plans to build a shelter in Lenexa for the county’s growing homeless population. How did the project — a major priority of Johnson County Commission Chair Mike Kelly, and the product of more than a year of planning and organizing — fall apart?
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    15 m
  • A librarian's history of the Westside

    A librarian's history of the Westside
    Sep 20 2024
    In the mid-1990s, the Kansas City Public Library was threatening to close its branch on the Westside. Librarian Irene Ruiz went door to door campaigning for the building to stay. Today, that branch of the library is named after her.
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    12 m
  • Missouri doesn't border Mexico, so why did it send troops there?

    Missouri doesn't border Mexico, so why did it send troops there?
    Sep 19 2024
    Over a dozen states that do not share a border with Mexico, including Missouri, have joined a Texas operation to crack down on illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. Plus: Two years after he was arrested by the FBI, former Kansas City, Kansas, Police detective Roger Golubski is set to face trial soon.
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    15 m
  • Missouri chicken farmers are suing Tyson

    Missouri chicken farmers are suing Tyson
    Sep 18 2024
    When Tyson closed a chicken processing facility in southeast Missouri, it also ended contracts with nearby chicken farmers. Now, some of those farmers are suing. Plus: Kansas farms are consolidating, pushing people to leave the region and making rural life even lonelier.
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    15 m