Melody Rowell
Producer, Central StandardMelody Rowell is the lead producer for KCUR’s Central Standard. You can find her on Twitter at @MelodyRowell, or by email at melody@kcur.org.
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Dining in is once again possible in and around Kansas City, with COVID-related practices in place. Customers seem happy, but some restaurants are struggling to keep up with the competing demands of the times. -
As stay-at-home orders start to lift, business owners are thinking about how best to protect their employees, customers, and profits. -
Why city's small business loans haven't materialized, behind the scenes of the NFL draft, how well distance learning is working, how Muslims are observing Ramadan during social distancing, and feeding Muslim medical personnel -
The Kansas governor on unemployment application process, COVID-19 safety at meatpacking plants, and likelihood of extending stay-at-home order. -
The Missouri governor on what it'll take to safely reopen the state -
Governors of Missouri and Kansas on reopening their states, Kansas City hospital CEO on COVID-19 preparedness, and mime still entertaining during the pandemic. -
A defense of every town's post office, the road ahead for the travel industry, wedding vendors and plans straining under COVID-19 regulations, the absence of sports. -
KCUR listeners get busy, creative and publicly minded under stay-at-home orders. -
Missouri's Rep. Cleaver on congressional response to coronavirus, how Independence is weathering the pandemic, what government orders mean for civil liberties, how people are passing the time at home -
Officials in Kansas and Missouri struggle to keep up with the unprecedented volume of claims, burdened by their own inadequate infrastructures.
