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Smaller crowds mean a more intimate experience for vendors and customers, and the Alexander Majors Museum provides ample room for social distancing.

GOP delegates from Kansas and Missouri discuss a virtual political convention unlike any other, how the Kansas Human Rights Commission could expand LGBTQ protections in the state, and a long-running craft fair receives patrons in-person again.

Conservative groups in Kansas are making an argument for moving away from the essential-nonessential business designation that has proliferated since the pandemic.

USPS users are bearing the brunt of mail delays and the service's financial shortcomings, Kansas and Missouri Democratic Party delegates are adjusting to a virtual version of their national political convention, and the medical marijuana program in Missouri has a deadline of late-September.

Murals on the value of Black life are set to grace Kansas City streets, a historic vice presidential candidacy gives rise to reflections on race and identity, and Kansas City music venues are embracing change to salvage the summer concert season.

Generating Income for Tomorrow is dedicated to providing grants to Black-owned businesses in Kansas City's most disadvantaged zip codes.

A Kansas City nonprofit is a new source of capital for Black entrepreneurs, the jazz community is celebrating Kansas City's own jazz virtuoso, and a novel idea for assisting voters seeking to mail in their Missouri general election ballots.

Local independent theaters are offering online rentals for films they would normally screen indoors. The Screenland Armour theater has started showing movies outdoors, and the Fine Arts Group is soliciting donations for the first time in their 38-year history.

Restaurant owners are simultaneously dealing with employees testing positive for COVID-19 and less business than usual, and the experience of eating out doesn't provide the same feeling of camaraderie.

In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, more businesses are looking to engage and better include their Black customers and clients.

Planners and artists in the wedding industry are navigating an unprecedented market interruption.

Missouri's top elections official says voting by mail during a pandemic isn't as easy as it could be, COVID-19 transmission rates in Johnson County are creeping up, and planners and artists in the wedding industry navigate an unprecedented market interruption.