Segment 1: Families live in downtown Kansas City, but it wasn't necessarily built with them in mind.
The accepted wisdom in Kansas City has long been that families want houses in the suburbs and that the market for downtown is young professionals and empty nesters, but families have lived downtown for generations.
- Rick Usher, Assistant City Manager, Kansas City
- Sara McComsey, downtown resident, Kansas City
Segment 2, beginning at 32:10: People don't think of black people when they think of who lives in the Midwest.
Kansas City writer L. L. McKinney recently wrote an essay on the "magic" of being a black Midwesterner as part of a series of essays by black Midwesterners.
