Emma Flannery
KCUR News Intern, Summer 2024Emma Flannery is the summer 2024 news intern at KCUR. She is a senior at the University of Missouri, majoring in journalism with an emphasis in writing and reporting. Her work includes reporting on unhoused communities, local government and politics, higher education and culture.
She has previously worked for the Columbia Missourian, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Kansas City Magazine and Modern Luxury.
Outside of the newsroom, you can probably find Emma playing her guitar or browsing a local record store.
Email her at eflannery@kcur.org.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine has been a central part of life for Latinos in Kansas City’s Westside neighborhood for more than 100 years. Repairing it will require raising nearly $1 million, but community members refuse to let their history fade away. -
The number of polling places around Kansas City has rapidly declined since 2020, when COVID closed much in-person voting and the spread of conspiracy theories caused safety concerns for election officials. -
Librarians at the downtown branch named the pair of mourning doves after Carrie Westlake Whitney, the "mother of the Kansas City Public Library," and her longtime companion Frances Bishop. Staff want visitors' help naming the two hatchlings. -
Apple NewsTenants at Westport House Apartments lost air conditioning over the weekend. In response, Kansas City officials sent a cooling bus and medical personnel to the apartment building.
