Kyle Palmer
Editor, Shawnee Mission PostKyle Palmer is the editor of the Shawnee Mission Post, a digital news outlet serving Northeast Johnson County, Kansas. He previously served as KCUR's news director and morning newscaster.
Kyle earned a Journalism degree from Mizzou and worked as a reporter for Columbia’s NPR affiliate KBIA. He also did play-by-play for the Jefferson City High School football and basketball teams. He earned a national Edward R. Murrow Award for a radio documentary about Missouri’s New Madrid fault (it’s still there, people, and ready to blow!). After college, he taught for 10 years.
He’s lived in Texas, California, and India, and also earned a Master’s degree in Education Policy from Stanford University, where he was also the PA announcer for the women’s and men’s volleyball team. (Ask him anything about volleyball.)
He now lives in Kansas with his wife and two sons. And they agree: of all the places they’ve lived, Kansas is the most … interesting.
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Two specific sites in Overland Park have been mentioned as possible landing places for a new baseball stadium. The Royals have been courted by Kansas after Kansas City voters rejected funding for a downtown ballpark — but the team hasn't actually provided plans yet. -
Davids defeated Lenexa oncologist Prasanth Reddy Tuesday by a margin of 54% to 42%, according to unofficial final result totals published by the Kansas Secretary of State’s office. -
A white male student at Shawnee Mission East High School was charged with aggravated battery after calling a Black female student the N-word and attacking her. A number of students walked out of class over the school's handling of the incident, and another protest is planned for Thursday. -
Fairway officer Jonah Oswald will be honored with a ‘parade of blue’ and vigil. Here are the detailsJonah Oswald, 29, died from his injuries Monday after a shooting at a QuikTrip in Mission. On Friday, Aug. 11, a "parade of blue" will start in Overland Park and pass through several Johnson County cities. -
The Mission City Council in January approved a new redevelopment agreement for the project on the site of the former Mission Center Mall, which has yet to materialize after 17 years. Now a New York bank is suing to foreclose its mortgage on the property. -
The Johnson County District Attorney said Officer Erik Clark was justified in using deadly force against the student, Jaylon Elmore, who a witness said opened fire on Clark first. The officer also likely fired the shots that hit an assistant principal, but the DA is not filing charges. -
The cities of Prairie Village, Mission and Roeland Park will all impose new citywide mask mandates beginning Tuesday, Jan. 18. But as with previous mandates, there are several exceptions. -
Soon after the start of the new semester, several school districts in Johnson County have re-instituted mask mandates after seeing high rates of COVID-19 transmission among students. -
The flood of new COVID-19 cases has made it practically impossible for county officials and school nurses to keep up with the task of tracking down who an infected person may have been in contact with. -
A letter sent to Johnson County commissioners and signed by 26 local elected officials urges the board to end the county's current public health order requiring universal masking in schools that serve students up to and including 6th grade.
