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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Unofficial results showed that 36,741 voters, or 13.6% of eligible voters, cast ballots in the primary.
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The open letter urged the Blue Valley School District — one of the Kansas City metro’s largest — to change its current policy and require “universal masking” of all students, staff and visitors inside its facilities.
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On Monday night, amid growing concerns about the delta variant of the coronavirus, SMSD became the only public school district in northern Johnson County to require at least some students to wear masks upon returning for in-person learning next month.
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If the ruling stands, local governments would have have more power to enact rules in response to a pandemic.
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The Overland Park City Council voted 10-2 on Monday to approve a joint proposal with the Kansas Department of Transportation to build express toll lanes going both directions on a busy stretch of U.S. 69 Highway.
