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  • Trying to get in the mood for a festive St. Patrick's Day?Friday in the final portion of Up to Date, Irish rockers The Elders join Brian Ellison for an…
  • In 2003 he left his life working as an attorney in London and Paris and moved to the much smaller community of Columbia, Missouri. Last week, he made it…
  • Lawmakers and officials in Kansas seem to be unclear on what some of the laws on that state's books actually mean.In the second part of Wednesday's Up to…
  • The holidays are a great time to buy local, especially when it comes to picking out a great bottle of wine. In the past 20 years, Missouri’s wine industry…
  • A look ahead at the issues most likely to be facing lawmakers in the Sunflower state, and what lies ahead for Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley.
  • In Wichita, 42 people died in 2023 while experiencing or transitioning out of homelessness. For almost two decades, a local community group has held a memorial service on the winter solstice as a stark reminder of the life-or-death weather to come.
  • Victoria Hansen is our Lowcountry connection covering the Charleston community, a city she knows well. She grew up in newspaper newsrooms and has worked as a broadcast journalist for more than 20 years. Her first reporting job brought her to Charleston where she covered local and national stories like the Susan Smith murder trial and the arrival of the Citadel’s first female cadet.
  • When concerts dried up last year, the band Making Movies went all over the U.S. to ask legendary musicians what makes their music "American." The resulting documentary airs July 1 on Kansas City PBS.
  • When Irma Hernandez rented a desk inside a music store on Southwest Boulevard, she never dreamed the entire space would one day belong to her — or that her daughter would turn it into a Mexican coffee shop.
  • Walt Disney gets most of the credit for creating Mickey Mouse. But few know the real story: Kansas City animator Ub Iwerks, Disney’s best friend, was the first to bring the iconic character to life. Then Mickey's success almost tore them apart for good.
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