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A Back Injury Spoiled A Missouri Farmer’s Dream. A Fruit Orchard Gave Him Renewed Purpose
Mark Angermayer used to be a pig farmer. When a back injury took that away, he forgot how to dream. His fruit orchard just south of Kansas City is a lesson in resilience and renewal.
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Heavier Federal Spending On Child Care Could Help Kansas City Parents Return To Workforce
A year of school closures, quarantines and work from home underscored the importance of child care, even as providers in the Kansas City area struggled to keep their doors open.
Western Kansas Farmers Begin To See Better Profits With Less Irrigation
Irrigation practices are changing, partly because of economics and partly because of a cultural shift among farmers on the High Plains.
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Coronavirus FAQs: Is A Homemade Mask Effective? And What's The Best Way To Wear One?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending cloth face coverings for the general public. If you have questions, we have answers.
In North Dakota, A Changing Climate Threatens Crop Diversity
As Doyle Lentz drives out over his farm, just 20 miles south of the Canadian border, he expects to see snow and ice for miles. This is January, after...
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Kansas City has a summer full of free, live concerts and festivals. Here's where to get started
Summer is the perfect time to sample some of Kansas City's rich and diverse musical offerings. Enjoy free, live music all season throughout the metro area with this guide to concerts and festivals around town.
ICE detention center in Leavenworth, Kansas, is hiring despite months of legal limbo
Private prison company CoreCivic is temporarily barred from holding detainees at its dormant Leavenworth facility. Yet preparations to reopen are going full steam ahead.
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Urban legend says the ‘Tonganoxie Split’ protects Kansas City from tornadoes. Is it real?
A local weather phenomenon holds that the 6,100-person town of Tonganoxie, Kansas, can weaken and divide thunderstorms and tornadoes. Experts are mixed on its existence — and what causes it — but locals say otherwise.
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Who Are The Smartest People On Twitter?
Host Michel Martin gets a fresh take on some of this week's top stories from the ladies of the Beauty Shop. This week they discuss Fast Company's list of the 25 Smartest Women on Twitter.
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Director Guillermo Del Toro Says 'Shape Of Water' Centers On 'Love Beyond Words'
"I wanted to make a completely honest, heart-on-sleeve, non-ironic melodrama," del Toro says. Set in 1962, his new film features a fairy tale romance between a creature and a mute woman.
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