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Kansas' most populous county is deliberating how to reopen for business safely, listeners discuss if they're ready for the easing of restrictions, and a Kansas City doctor is using a donated camper to quarantine.

When it comes to what's causing congressional failure to get more money to small businesses, one Kansas congresswoman blames a “partisan bickering match."

Congresswoman Sharice Davids calls for quicker small business relief, the new Johnson County health director touts the importance of COVID-19 testing, children with intellectual and development disabilities are missing vital services at home, and a group sewing masks for health care workers.

Rep. Cleaver on federal pandemic spending

Missouri's Rep. Cleaver on congressional response to coronavirus, how Independence is weathering the pandemic, what government orders mean for civil liberties, how people are passing the time at home

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly was the first in the nation to cancel in-person school for the rest of the academic year. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson was among the last to declare a statewide stay-at-home order.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Missouri Gov. Mike Parson are responding differently to the coronavirus threat, and Kansas City child care providers are scrambling resources to meet the needs of essential workers and their kids.

Segment 1: Kansas' 2020 Democractic presidential primary will will work a little differently this year.The 39 Democratic delegates in Kansas aren't up for…

Segment 1: How voters are feeling the day after the 2020 Missouri Democratic Primary.Yesterday’s primary in Missouri and several other states may have…

Segment 1: Kansas City health experts on keeping your family preparedWith cases of COVID-19 popping up in Missouri and Kansas, we talk with local doctors…

Segment 1: One proposed bill in Kansas legislature would allow state prisoners expected to die to be released  sooner.Although the bill would extend…

Less than a week before the Missouri preisdential primaries, on the day that the Democratic field narrowed to a final two candidates, Kansas City area…