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  • In this episode of Central Standard, a plan for the future of East Kansas City from UMKC Urban Planning and Design students , who have been collecting…
  • You don't have to hang out in Westport or walk along Mass Ave for long before you'll likely spot an elbow with an area code, a shoulder with a familiar…
  • From Homer to Shakespeare, bards have always used verse tell to tell the story of their times. One of hip hop artists best known for this is Nate Dogg –…
  • On this Wednesday's Central Standard, a conversation about the importance of art criticism in the process of art-making and reception. We’ll hear why a…
  • We all know that the baby boomer generation is getting older. As the baby boomers enter into their sixties and seventies, our population will experience a…
  • Poet William Trowbridge has been appointed Missouri's next poet Laureate, and is the first Kansas City poet to receive the title.He was a guest on Central…
  • On this Tuesday's Central Standard, Modern Monetary Theory. It’s nowhere near as dull as it sounds.In fact, when our guests, UMKC Professors William Black…
  • In Kansas City it's expected that the weather will jump from snowy, to balmy, to sultry in a matter of weeks.But now that we're firmly into spring, and…
  • The federal government of the United States has shutdown. But, how long will the country go without money budgeted to run its government?We stop to ask…
  • As the school year draws to a close and a new crop of students heads off to college this fall, the age-old challenge of paying for it is on the minds of…
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