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adminFollowing attempts by neighbors to get the Kansas City Park and Recreation Department to address a homeless camp just inside Gate One of Cliff Drive, a comprehensive clean up strategy…
adminEquity2 is an impact investment firm and sister organization of AltCap and Community Capital Fund. We take two approaches to community development: impact investing and the Community Investment Trust (CIT). Our…
adminA fatal single vehicle wreck involving a City trash truck closed the I-435 northbound on ramp Tuesday morning just after 11:30 a.m. Emergency crews responded to Front Street at I-435…
adminBy Abby Hoover On Monday, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO), along with Mayors Eileen Weir of Independence, Mo., representatives from the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City,…
adminThis critically thinking News Dog thinks a change in paradigms is highly necessary in how the City deals with the ongoing and growing issue of homeless camps on public land.…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain To the victor goes the bragging rights, and what better way to brag that your hometown team is No. 1 than with a novelty license plate for…
adminMeet Alea Surender, Director of Public Health Services at the Northeast-based Mattie Rhodes Center. Alea is responsible for Mattie Rhodes public health initiatives, along with rent and utility assistance work.…
adminBy Abby Hoover Bishop Sullivan Centers has welcomed a new Executive Director following the October 2021 retirement of longtime President Tom Turner. As the centers celebrate their 50th year, Michelle…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain Numerous sites throughout Kansas City have been named in honor of business owners and civic leaders Theron B. Watkins (1877-1950) and his adopted step-son Bruce R. Watkins…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain In the 1979 Kansas City, Mo., mayoral election, Democratic candidate Bruce R. Watkins faced Republican candidate Richard Berkley. Born in 1924, Watkins was adopted by his step-father…
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