Steve Kraske

Host of Up to Date

Steve Kraske has been the political correspondent for The Kansas City Star since 1994. He covers national, state and local politics with a special focus on the Iowa presidential caucuses every four years. Kraske first came to The Star in 1986 and covered the Kansas City Police Department and state government in Jefferson City and Topeka. Before arriving in Kansas City, he worked at daily newspapers in Iowa and Illinois and at United Press International in Madison, Wis. Kraske is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism. His parents live in Stillwater, Minn. In 2001, he and a team of Star reporters won the Missouri Press Association's top government-reporting award for a series of stories on the death of Gov. Mel Carnahan. In 1991, he was awarded a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.

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Up to Date
10:13 am
Thu May 9, 2013

Writers' Roundtable: KC Edition

David Von Drehle, Linda Rodriguez and Candice Millard

Writing can be a solitary pursuit, and that can mean the tricks of the trade remain quiet

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Tue May 7, 2013

Truman's Integration Of The Armed Forces

Credit James C. Cassatt
Rawn James, Jr., author of The Double V

Looking back, desegregating the military seems like the obvious thing to do, but in the 1940s and 50s, it wasn't so clear for Harry Truman.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Mon May 6, 2013

Listen To Your Mother

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Listen To Your Mother

With Mother's Day on the horizon, one group wants you to listen to your mother.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Mon May 6, 2013

Walking Across Kansas For Stroke Awareness

Credit Dave Spicer
Charity walkers

Would you walk 500 miles to raise awareness for a cause? Would you walk 70 more?

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Up to Date
12:00 pm
Sun May 5, 2013

Pulling Up The Roots Of Words

Let's Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition

Ever wonder where the word hornswoggle comes from? How about doubloon?

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Up to Date
12:21 pm
Thu May 2, 2013

Writers' Roundtable: Children's Book Authors

It’s a special blend of characters, engaging stories and occasionally, a bit of magic that goes into a great children’s book.

On Thursday's Up to Date,  Steve Kraske hosts a roundtable of children's book authors, including Brian Selznick, Richard Peck, Sarah Weeks and Avi to discuss their methods for putting together award-winning tomes with that extra spark of fun.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Tue April 30, 2013

Managing An Online Business Reputation

Yelp and TripAdvisor logos

Do all those reviews on sites like Yelp or TripAdvisor really matter for small businesses

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Tue April 30, 2013

A Window Into The World Of Tourette's

People with Tourette's syndrome are often portrayed as spouting curse words uncontrollably, but there's more to the condition than that.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Mon April 29, 2013

America's Shifting Foreign Policy

Vali Nasr

Over the past few years, the United States has started to withdraw its aid and influence from regions like the Middle East, and that is creating space for other countries to assume more powerful positions.

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Up to Date
12:00 pm
Sun April 28, 2013

Cooking With Fire, Water, Wind & Earth

Want to learn the secrets of a barbecue master or how the “fermentos” do their thing with cheese, beer and pickles? 

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Up to Date
10:27 am
Fri April 26, 2013

College Decisions Close To Home

National Decision Day is edging closer for high school seniors who have yet to choose a college.

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Up to Date
10:09 am
Fri April 26, 2013

Pushing For Advance Voting In Missouri

The League of Women Voters  has a few goals it's pursuing-- more advance voting and online voter registration.

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Up to Date
11:47 am
Thu April 25, 2013

The Ethics Professors: College Sports, Parental Responsibility & Citizen Well-being

Credit Ben Stanfield
College basketball

How much power is too much when it comes to the hallowed fields of college sports?

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Tue April 23, 2013

History & Tourism Around The State Line

Go to enough Kansas and Missouri historical spots, and you'll find many of them are steeped in the history of the Civil War.

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Up To Date
3:21 pm
Tue April 23, 2013

The Kansas Sales Tax: To Extend Or Not To Extend


Three years ago the Kansas legislature passed a one-cent sales tax with the intention of removing it at a later date.

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