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  • Financial troubles with the KCATA could come at a cost to bus riders in the future. A budget shortfall could mean the end of free bus service, a reduction of routes and layoffs if the agency can't secure additional funding. Kansas City Mayor Pro Tem Ryana-Parks Shaw says that no matter what, service will look different in the future.
  • The Trump administration’s ban on refugee arrivals and federal funding for resettlement organizations is impacting Kansas City agencies, and their work to support the people who've already arrived.
  • As Kansas City celebrates the Chiefs’ third consecutive Super Bowl appearance, the team name, logo, and some problematic fan customs like the “tomahawk chop” are once again being broadcast worldwide. Suzanne Hogan explores how it all got started, and how the team avoided becoming the Kansas City Texans.
  • Had things gone a different way, Chiefs fans could have been rooting for the world-champion Kansas City Mules this Super Bowl — or perhaps the Kansas City Texans. In a special episode, we're exploring how this controversial name first came to be.
  • An executive order issued by President Donald Trump claims that transgender people are unfit to serve in the military. That's a "blatant insult and a betrayal," local service members say.
  • Oscar-winning screenwriter and University of Kansas film professor Kevin Willmott is retiring from teaching this year. KU is hosting a four-day film festival celebrating his career starting Feb. 18 in Lawrence.
  • Five years ago, Kansas and Missouri reached a truce in the long-running “border war,” ending the poaching of each other's businesses across the state line. Everyone’s been a winner, especially taxpayers, so why is that agreement now at risk of ending?
  • Wyandotte County is experiencing one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in recent U.S. history. But emails obtained by the Kanas News Service show tension between the state and county health department officials that may have made the response more difficult.
  • Some Kansas Citians fed up with dating apps are looking to a new event created just for the LGBTQ+ community — where you pitch your friends on their behalf, in front of an entire crowd. Plus: Two years after Kansas City native Nathan Louis Jackson passed away, his play “Broke-ology” is returning to his hometown stage.
  • Feb. 14 marks the one year anniversary of the mass shooting at the Super Bowl parade that killed Lisa Lopez-Galvan and injured 24 others. In their series "The Injured" from KCUR and KFF Health News, reporters Peggy Lowe and Bram-Sable Smith spoke with survivors about how the shooting continued to impact their lives.
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