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Kansas City, Missouri, has met its record for deadliest year, with 182 homicides in 2023. The city's 51st victim, who was killed in April, ran a popular fish restaurant and taco truck, and was a champion pickle ball player. -
VisitKC says Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour brought in $200 million this summer. Then Swift kept coming back to the city because of her relationship with Travis Kelce. Local business owners and even the city’s tourism say they're reaping the benefits.
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The University of Kansas surveyed more than 200 workers in chain retail settings about their job satisfaction.
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Instead of sending trees and broken lights to the local landfill, here’s how and where you can recycle those unwanted holiday wares.
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Legislation filed by Sen. Ben Brown, a Republican from Washington, would also roll back state oversight. Democratic Sen. Maggie Nurrenbern of Kansas City said she is concerned about “simply not knowing which students are being homeschooled.”
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Kansas public school leaders in some high-demand districts say they’re already hearing from families who want to switch schools to take advantage of a new open enrollment law. But the new law won’t be simple, and they’re not ready to just throw open their doors.
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VineBrook homes rents thousands of single-family homes to tenants across the Midwest. An investigation by the Midwest Newsroom found a pattern of negligence based on hundreds of complaints from tenants across the region.
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The efforts to remove books from school libraries started with parents in local districts and eventually led to state legislatures. After two years of controversy, one Missouri school librarian says her colleagues are leaving the profession because it has become too painful.
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Looking back on the year, Kansas City was filled with plenty of weird and wonderful moments — and not just when we won the Super Bowl. KCUR's newsroom picked out the stories that brought us happiness to report and read in 2023.
