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White House will veto GOP effort to stop college debt bailout
The White House says it will veto a Republican-led House measure that stops the massive student loan bailout. The bill…
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Next Generation
Movies to get your red, white and blue on
July is what I call Red-White-and Blue days of summer. This is when the themed t-shirts come out, there are…
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History & Archaeology
What’s Old Is New Again: Kansas City’s Streetcars
Not many towns or cities around the world have eliminated streetcars, only to bring them back 60 years later. For…
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Columns
The little-known Civil War history of Cass County
On July 11th the Burnt District presented a plaque marking the bloodiest battle of the Civil War in Cass County,…
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History & Archaeology
40 Highway: The Historic Road That Connected Missouri, Kansas and Beyond
U.S. Highway 40 stretches from Atlantic City, New Jersey all the way to Park City, Utah. But one of its…
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Finances
Local Banks, the Federal Reserve, and the Modern-Day Bank Run
In 1913, a US Senator from the Kansas City, Missouri area flipped his vote, and the Federal Reserve System was…
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Columns
The historically black neighborhoods of Kansas City explained
History had a lot to do with where Black neighborhoods were created on both the Missouri and Kansas side of…
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Columns
Where are they now? Kansas City’s famous restaurants
From the earliest meals shared in what would become Kansas City, like bison cooked over a buffalo chip fire, the…
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Columns
The fascinating history of air travel in Kansas City and the Midwest
When we think of air travel today, we think of the airports around the country, and we think of the…
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The real climate crisis: A look at Kansas City in 1936
Daniel Fahrenheit invented the thermometer in 1709. So, before that the nature of temperature was a hot or cold day.…
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