The Kansas City Star
KC area police pursuits create danger for many amid a crazy quilt of policies
Area cities have missed opportunities to fully address what may be the deadliest form of bistate border-hopping — conflicting, uncoordinated police pursuit policies in more than 60 departments across a six-county, two-state metropolitan area.
What makes Kansas City's fountains blue (besides Royals spirit)?
Six of Kansas City’s fountains, as well as several privately owned fountains and those owned by surrounding cities, are dyed bright blue to celebrate the Royals making it to the playoffs for the first time in 29 years.
It turns out there’s a man — a chemist, in fact — behind the process. All of Kansas City’s fountain dye is made at a local company called Blue Valley Laboratories, which does all sorts of water treatment projects for the city.
Flatland (KCPT)
Many Americans are staying away from banks
Kansas City’s total unbanked population has grown 4 percent since 2009. In St. Louis, that number has fallen 3 percent in the same period.
Creating a high-tech vending machine to dispense local art
Chips, Cheetos and peanuts are all things you might expect to find in an airport vending machine. Local art … not so much. But in one vending machine in the Kansas City Airport, you can expect to find locally made art, jewelry, T-shirts and the like. You swipe your credit card and out comes an original work of art created by a KC maker.
Al Jazeera America
Missouri's paw-paw french dialect fading into silence
Mere dozens are believed to speak the language of some of North America's earliest French settlers.
