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It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi...
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The sweeping story of the private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman is a window into the rise of American capitalism and our country’s subseq...
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Higher education has been in the news a lot lately as politicians debate the merits of student loan forgiveness and free community college tuition....
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There are more than 90,000 people on the kidney transplant list in the United States. Every day, 13 of them die waiting for a call. We need more li...
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The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, moved the world and Kansas City in ways that are still coming into focus.
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In a special online presentation marking the wider reopening of the Kansas City Public Library’s physical spaces and services on June 1, renowned auth...
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Kansas City’s long-troubled public schools system has shown promising improvement. Student performance in math and English is rising. Full accredit...
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Walk into one of the hundreds of donut shops in Southern California – the land of glitz also happens to be the country’s donut capital – and odds a...
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Even among the iconic frontiersmen of the American West, Jim Bridger stands out as larger than life.
Born in 1804 and orphaned at 1...
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Today’s hyper-political sensitivity to U.S. Supreme Court appointments traces back to the only president elected from Missouri. Harry Truman revolu...