Barbara Shelly
ContributorBarbara Shelly is a veteran journalist based in Kansas City, Missouri. She has been an opinion columnist, metro columnist, editor and reporter for The Kansas City Star and is currently a contributing editor and writer for news outlets in Kansas City.
Barbara specializes in writing about Kansas and Missouri state governments, schools and colleges and health care.
Her interests include bikes, biographies, piano, people, family, friends, cats and kids. Her favorite pursuits are travel and hanging out on her front porch in Kansas City’s Waldo neighborhood.
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The recent refusal of a Kansas City Council committee to move forward with a plan to focus on health and safety concerns in rental housing may not be the…
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Kansas City Councilman Scott Wagner’s drive to get a controversial housing measure before voters this year fell short on Thursday.Members of the city…
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Complaints from Kansas Citians about rotting floors, broken fixtures and black mold in rental units often make their way to City Hall. But short of…
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Starting in the 1990s, Hickman Mills became a forgotten community. Middle-income families moved out. Blight moved in. Drive through the neighborhoods…
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The tipping point may have come in late January, when yet another quick-tempered boy moved into Aubrey Paine’s second grade classroom at Ingels Elementary…
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Saadiq Thompson will walk across the stage and proudly receive a diploma from Ruskin High School in Kansas City in a few weeks. But he’s only spent a…
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Students in the Hickman Mills School District are returning from spring break this week, and their teachers are gearing up for the final stretch of the…
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A parent arrives home one day to find the family’s possessions sitting on the curb. Those eviction threats were all too real.A basement fills with water…
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Second-grade teacher Aubrey Paine leads her class into the school computer lab, gets everyone seated, then moves from computer to computer, typing in…
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Kaily Ross rocked a baby stroller as she talked to the staffers who run the after-school program at Ingels Elementary School in the Hickman Mills…