The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Earth Day 2021 is here, which often renews people’s interest in finding ways to help out the environment. It is only fitting for “What’s Your KCQ?” to...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021
“What’s Your KCQ?” — a partnership between The Star and the Kansas City Public Library — wants to know: What questions do you have about police reform...
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Friday, April 16, 2021
It was a hot June night in 1943, and Frances Angermayer could not sleep. So, she arose after midnight, went to her typewriter, and—in twenty minutes—w...
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Thursday, April 8, 2021
With the Major League Baseball season underway and the Royals faithful cheering on their boys in blue, it is fitting for What’s Your KCQ? to get a cur...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Julia Lee was the queen of Kansas City blues when the city was a center of the jazz and blues universe. A pianist and singer in the first half of the...
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Thursday, March 25, 2021
Both Kansas and Missouri have opened up the COVID-19 vaccine to hundreds of thousands more residents. And though more doses are flowing into the Kansa...
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Monday, March 15, 2021
The “What’s your KCQ?” team at The Star and the Kansas City Public Library have answered many of your questions (more than 100 of them) about the Kans...
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
The Kansas City area is clearly the cradle of bandit brothers, having produced perhaps the nation’s two most notorious sets of outlaw siblings, Frank...
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
As Kansas City was growing up in the late 19th century, its leaders recognized the need for respite from the hubbub of urban life. They set aside gree...
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Friday, February 19, 2021
To this day, it’s one of Kansas City’s best kept secrets: An apartment complex now sits at 2929 Main Street, sprawled out between a school and a hotel...