Beyond Our Borders explores the history and impact of the most distinct lines in Kansas City. For more than a year, KCUR worked to rediscover Troost Avenue, the State Line, the Wyandotte-Johnson county line, and the Missouri River.
Our hope is that we now better understand how these borders affect the current Kansas City experience and what’s being done to bridge or dissolve critical divides.
Here, you'll find a compilation of our work and our discussions with communities across the region.
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Kansas City owes its place on the map and its early prosperity to rivers. But those same streams that carried people and goods in and out — and later made…
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Head north out of downtown Kansas City on the Broadway Bridge, take the exit for the downtown airport and at the roundabout take a right turn into the…
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Everything Bryce Schaffter needed to brew beer commercially, North Kansas City had.“Mostly industrial buildings work the best, along with the utilities…
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If your stomach is grumbling in the Kansas City area, the Missouri River plays a big role on how to satisfy those hunger pangs.“It’s very much a…
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A tweet by the City of Smithville caught our eye the other day — according to the United States Census Bureau, their population is on the verge of hitting…
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My colleague, Donna Vestal, and her husband Eric like living in the Northland.They have space. Their expansive backyard spills down from their deck like…