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Nelson-Atkins Museum Sells Monet Masterpiece for $21.7M
The night arrived, the auction occurred and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art sold one of its Claude Monet masterpieces. As previously reported in Flatland, iconic auction house Christie’s expected...
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Nick’s Picks | School’s Out, Ballot Issues and Memorial Day
As we start the week, we’re waiting on a news conference from British monarch King Charles. Apparently, he is the only person who has yet to weigh in on the Harrison Butker commencement speech. Here...
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Winners and Losers of Missouri’s 2024 Legislative Session
The final day of the 2024 legislative session lasted less than 10 minutes in the Missouri Senate. The lightning-quick adjournment was aimed at avoiding bitter flare ups that plagued the previous day,...
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Campus Protests Highlight the Complexity of Divestment
The headline captured the stalemate following campus protests that swept U.S. universities this spring. “Divesting University Endowments: Easier Demanded Than Done.” As a professor and researcher,...
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Food Insecurity Soars in the Heartland
Nestled in downtown Kansas City, in the basement of the Grace & Holy Trinity campus, volunteers buzz around a kitchen filled with large containers of donated meat, veggies and grains. The...
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Neighborhood Blocks a Low-Barrier Shelter Addressing Homelessness in Kansas City
Ken Simard mainly slept under the Blue Parkway bridge near the railroad tracks along the Blue River for the seven years he was homeless, numbing himself with meth and weed. “If it were not for the...
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Grass Lawns are a Landscape Staple, But an Environmental Reckoning Looms
In the summer, Denise Whitebread Fanning’s yard is filled with flowers like zinnias, black-eyed Susans and milkweed. Her overgrown yard typically sticks out among the rows of tidy lawns in Mount...
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Kansas City Approves Funds for Park Over South Loop Downtown
Kansas City’s plan to build an urban park above a portion of Interstate 670 — capping an unattractive portion of downtown with public green space — is well on its way, with officials saying that...
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Chiefs Pound Out a Better Relationship at Arrowhead Stadium
Kansas City Chiefs President Mark Donovan had a list. It detailed Indigenous-related imagery that the franchise was reassessing, a response to longstanding charges of cultural appropriation. Further...
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For Negro Leagues Museum President, Stat Recognition is Bigger Than Baseball
The addition of Negro Leagues baseball players’ statistics to MLB’s record books is bigger than baseball, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick said Wednesday. It’s a part of American...
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Nick’s Picks | Hereford House Case, Jackson County Property Taxes
The man at the center of the Hereford House contamination case appears in court this week. The 21-year-old restaurant worker, Jace Hanson, is facing felony food tampering charges. According to court...
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Insects Don’t Get Love Like Other Animals. But Kansas Can’t Survive Without Them
BURLINGAME, Kansas — Without dung beetles, rancher Jamin Horton would be up, um, an unpleasant creek. These efficient manure wranglers break down the huge patties produced by the hulking livestock...
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Report: Rural America Produces Greenhouse Gasses on Behalf of Urban and...
A new report shows that at least 36% of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States come from rural America, but they’re mostly used to produce energy and food for urban and suburban America....
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Border Issue Looms Over Cambio Center Conference in KC
Decades have passed since a Peruvian-born professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia eloquently spoke about the struggles of new Americans, addressing the often negative reactions to the...
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Kansas Lawmakers to Target Chiefs During Special Session
TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate president and Kansas House speaker said Tuesday they were intrigued by the potential of putting together an incentive package capable of attracting the Super Bowl champion...
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Do We Have a Bid? Auctions Sell Produce by the Lot
In an open pole barn on a Monday morning, a crowd of casually dressed people gathered and listened intently. On either side of the group, auctioneers with microphones voiced singsong calls for...
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Boone County Becomes Focus of Missouri Initiative Petition Campaigns...
Since being elected Boone County Clerk in 2018, Brianna Lennon’s job verifying initiative petition signatures has been pretty easy, with only a few hundred pages to sort through at most. That changed...
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Nick’s Picks | Kansas Makes a Play for Chiefs and Royals
Ahead of next week’s special legislative session in Kansas, a group of high-ranking lawmakers have written to Chiefs owner Clark Hunt offering him a huge package of state subsidies, if he agrees to...
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Parched in the Panhandle: Town Frets About Water
GUYMON, Oklahoma — Mike Shannon’s city hall office is a “war room” for water. Maps of wells and charts of usage rates cover the beige room’s meeting table and desk. A large television screen mounted...
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Honoring Womontown: Kansas City’s Intentional Lesbian Community
To the casual observer, the history of the gay rights movement in the U.S. might seem a largely coastal affair with San Francisco’s Castro district officially taking shape around the time of the...
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