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  • Can Kansas City's transportation death spiral be fixed?

    Can Kansas City's transportation death spiral be fixed?
    2025/07/17
    In recent years, most Kansas City suburbs have cut transportation funding, which means fewer and slower buses. Local officials are racing to fix that. Plus: High school graduation rates in Kansas are higher than ever. But some people worry that the growth of credit recovery programs could be lowering standards for students.
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  • Multibillion-dollar Panasonic plant opens in Kansas

    Multibillion-dollar Panasonic plant opens in Kansas
    2025/07/16
    Panasonic's highly anticipated $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant opened in De Soto, Kansas, this week. But problems with Tesla, tariffs and tax breaks have investors worried. Leaders of the plant believe it's just a bump in the road.
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  • Trump's budget may shutter this Missouri environmental lab

    Trump's budget may shutter this Missouri environmental lab
    2025/07/15
    Scientists in a Columbia, Missouri, lab have studied how toxic chemicals affect animals and ecosystems since the 1960s. But President Trump's proposed budget would likely mean lights out. Plus: Hydroelectric power is a mainstay of the United States electrical grid, but federal hurdles could take plants offline.
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  • How Missouri governors 'quietly dismantled' an ethics watchdog

    How Missouri governors 'quietly dismantled' an ethics watchdog
    2025/07/14
    A new report has raised concerns that Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe and his predecessor have failed to fill vacancies at the Missouri Ethics Commission. As a result, the state watchdog has been unable to investigate dozens of complaints of ethical misconduct.
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  • Amateur archaeologists are digging into Kansas history

    Amateur archaeologists are digging into Kansas history
    2025/07/11
    Crews of volunteers are digging into the ruins of a 168-year-old mansion in Lecompton, Kansas, that belonged to a territorial governor. The work is done through the Kansas Historical Society's annual archaeological field school. Plus: Children’s author Derrick Barnes from Kansas City is known for books that are all about making Black kids feel seen.
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    14 分
  • Why Jackson County is having a recall vote on Frank White Jr.

    Why Jackson County is having a recall vote on Frank White Jr.
    2025/07/10
    Jackson County’s top elected official is facing a recall election. County Executive Frank White Jr. says it’s a political vendetta, while lawmakers say it’s actually aboutproperty taxes. But will it actually happen next month?
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  • An Overland Park teen fights to protect cancer funding

    An Overland Park teen fights to protect cancer funding
    2025/07/09
    The Trump administration proposed slashing billions of dollars from federal health agencies, but a high school student from Overland Park has been pushing lawmakers to preserve cancer research funding. Plus, we remember a beloved Kansas City singer who died after a long battle with cancer.
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  • Missouri activists step up to comfort ICE detainees

    Missouri activists step up to comfort ICE detainees
    2025/07/08
    President Trump's mass deportation efforts have led to the arrests of tens of thousands of immigrants, some of whom end up at the Phelps County Jail in Rolla, Missouri. Now some local activists are trying to provide comfort and assistance to detainees stuck in an unfamiliar place.
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