Frank Morris
National Correspondent, KCURI’ve been at KCUR almost 30 years, working partly for NPR and splitting my time between local and national reporting. I work to bring extra attention to people in the Midwest, my home state of Kansas and of course Kansas City. What I love about this job is having a license to talk to interesting people and then crafting radio stories around their voices. It’s a big responsibility to uphold the truth of those stories while condensing them for lots of other people listening to the radio, and I take it seriously. Email me at frank@kcur.org or find me on Twitter @FrankNewsman.
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Variable rate time-of-use pricing will soon be inescapable for Evergy customers in Missouri. In one billing plan, the top rate will be roughly four times as expensive as the base rate, forcing consumers to pay close attention to the way they buy and use electricity. -
Pilgrims flocking to see the well-preserved remains of an exhumed nun north of Kansas City say her “incorrupt” body signals sainthood. The other sign has to do with the racism Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster overcame as a Black nun in the 20th century. -
Walmart is putting more than $250 million into a beef packaging plant in Olathe. That will bring hundreds of jobs to Johnson County and reflects a big shift in the way beef gets from farm to table. -
Kansas wheat farmers will reap the smallest harvest in more than 60 years. Persistent drought withered much of the crop. -
When Dave Hughes lost his job and his place to live, he found a measure of refuge living under a bridge on Brush Creek in the middle of Kansas City. Then an ostracized duck gave him a new lease on life. -
Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson announced the charges against Andrew D. Lester late Monday afternoon after days of national outcry. -
After years of gain, urban core counties in the Kansas City area — including Jackson County and Wyandotte County — have started shrinking. But Johnson County is thriving. -
The report, commissioned by the theater, said there were no allegations of attacks on children. -
The U.S. Surface Transportation Board’s approval Wednesday was the last remaining regulatory obstacle facing the $31 billion merger. It will create the first single railroad spanning Mexico, Canada, and the United States. -
Truck drivers have a limit: 14 hours. After that long work day, they have to park. The truck has to stop and it can’t move again for 10 hours. But finding a place to park an 80-foot-long semi can be a nightmare, one that endangers truckers and slows down commerce. Truckers have been struggling for decades to get Washington to do something about it.
