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Missouri asked to redirect funding in schools by ACLU

The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri has written to several school districts throughout the state urging them to remove police officers from schools, according to reporting by the Associated Press. ACLU says money spent on school resource officers should… more

UMKC School of Medicine plans expansion to St. Joseph in partnership with Mosiac

In a move designed to address a stubborn shortage of physicians in rural areas of the state, the University of Missouri-Kansas City has been given the green light to expand with a satellite campus in St. Joseph. Financed in large part… more

Not So Fast for KCPD “Home Rule” by Jack Cashill

Kansas City is the only major city in the country whose police force is controlled by the state. There is a two-word answer to the question of why this is so. Those two words are “Tom Pendergast.” Elected to no… more

Coping with COVID: Quarantine fatigue could be the cause in rise of new cases

In Missouri stay-at-home orders have been lifted, with local exceptions throughout the state including in the Kansas City metro. Over the last several days, the state and surrounding Kansas City region has seen a growing number of new cases. State… more

Amnesty granted to arrested protesters

Thursday’s debate on the proposal to drop municipal charges against nonviolent protesters became lengthy as the City Council of Kansas City continued discussion following a hearing in front of the city’s Special Committee for Legal Review last week. The approved… more

Kansas City council to meet today to discuss proposal on protester charges

Today the full Kansas City, Missouri city council will meet to further discuss a proposal to drop municipal charges against protesters the police arrested between May 29, 2020, and June 2, 2020, according to a news report from KSHB. The… more

Coping with COVID: Request for more COVID-19 testing in Kansas City

Approaching three months since the announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent closures across the U.S. and world, the demand for increased testing – and access to it – has received attention from the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department. While… more

Public forum today to allow comments on renaming J.C. Nichols memorials

Thursday evening will be the first chance for the public to weigh in with their thoughts regarding the highly debated renaming of J.C. Nichols Fountain and Parkway. Recent events across the nation involving racism have had a sweeping effect in… more

Young children said to be more immune to COVID-19 than adults

The number of children affected by COVID-19 has shown to be significantly lower than older age groups. In a study conducted by Nature Medicine, there are age-dependent effects in the spread of the virus. “Age disparities in observed cases could… more

Missouri faces new COVID-19 containment threat

A month after dropping into the bottom tier of states with its COVID-19 transmission rate, Missouri is on the threshold of crossing back into expansion mode for the virus. The web site rt.live today reported that the state’s rate of… more