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CoreCivic receives Leavenworth planning commission approval in contentious meeting CoreCivic is a step closer to reopening its private prison in Leavenworth as a lucrative immigration detention center after the city planning commission approved a special use permit over objections f...

Was hoping this might fail.

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I am quite a bit closer to ending flesh.

#KCHD can do some pretty spectacular things. I’m really, really hoping for excellent guidance on maternal health and childhood illness for #FIFA team families and spectators. #KC @mayorq.bsky.social

I just became 15 years younger by eating this green apple scented magic marker!

In retaliation of court ruling, Missouri Senate Republicans stall so Supreme Court address is canceled - Missourinet The Missouri Supreme Court chief justice usually delivers a speech each year to state legislators, but not Wednesday. After last week’s Supreme Court ruling striking down legislation about election ba...

Babies.

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LXXXVIII (The Sonnets) A Final Sonnet For Chris

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PERRY: Trump 2.0 — Our year of living dangerously was far worse than everyone warned everyone about - Sentinel Colorado "The unfathomable Top 100 list of really dangerous, stupid, corrupt and outright monstrous things Trump has done and said reads like human history’s most extensive collection of 'you can’t make this s...

The @sentinelcolorado.com is one of the few publications speaking truth right now.
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This fight was about far more than one policy. It was about protecting students, academic freedom, and decades of civil rights law. After we pushed back in court, the Trump administration has dropped its appeal in its anti-DEI campaign. edsource.org/2026/trump-a...

I was just kidding!

In the midst of everything that is happening, the music plays on. Tune-in to Night Tides every Sunday night from 8pm to midnight CST on KCUR 89.3, www.kcur.org/show/night-t... or tunein.com/radio/Night-...
Thank you for listening! 🎶🎧🤎

Kansas City Public Library and Kansas City Star launch huge database of newspaper photographs The Kansas City Library and Kansas City Star have collaborated to release The Star's historical photo archives, which features hundreds of thousands of photos spanning much of the 20th century.

The Kansas City Star has collaborated with the Kansas City Public Library to launch an online database of its pre-digital era photo archives. Anyone can search through the archives at KCStarPhotos.org.

Navy veterans unveil monument to Filipino-American sailors on former US base The Filipino Shipmate Monument was unveiled this week to honor thousands of Filipino-Americans who have served in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard since 1901.

A group of retired sailors gathered at a former U.S. naval base in the Philippines this week to unveil the Filipino Shipmate Monument in honor of tens of thousands of Filipino-Americans who have served in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard since 1901.

Do we really need environment?

Holding out hope that #fifa in #KC will not turn into a dystopian hellscape.

History of Peace Corps Week

It’s almost close to peace corps week 2026. It feels more desperate every year. Become a volunteer. #peacecorps #RPCV #ukraine

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New Year BY BEI DAO, TRANSLATED BY DAVID HINTON a child carrying flowers walks toward the new year a conductor tattooing darkness listens to the shortest pause hurry a lion into the cage of music hurry stone to masquerade as a recluse oving in parallel nights who's the visitor? when the days all tip from nests and fly down roads the book of failure grows boundless and deep each and every moment's a shortcut I follow it through the meaning of the East returning home, closing death's door

“A child carrying flowers walks toward the new year.” A poem by Bei Dao, translated by David Hinton.

Under this GOP Measure, All of Missouri’s Recent Popular Initiatives Would Have Failed Lawmakers just advanced a constitutional amendment to drastically raise the bar for approving citizen ballot measures. Voters get to weigh in on the scheme next year.

Missouri’s referendum on minimum wage and paid sick leave last year won by a margin of 58 to 42 percent statewide. Under a proposal advanced by the GOP, it would have failed because it didn’t win more than 50 percent in every congressional district.

This is a thing they do.

The Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic Policy on Social Needs Across the State of Kansas and Western Missouri: Paired Survey Response Testing Studying patients’ social needs is critical to the understanding of health conditions and disparities, and to inform strategies for improving health outcomes. Studies have shown that people of color, low-income families, and those with lower ...

during the waning of the pandemic I had walk my vaccination card to HR/campus police to get back to teaching in the classroom. I remember being pissed at what I considered as overreach, but sick students with dead parents pretty much cleared that up for me.

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Thanks for such great reporting.

Public health is part of national defense.

KC nonprofit reStart buys Midtown hotel for temporary family housing - Kansas City Business Journal Multiple luxury apartments are going up along KC's streetcar. A shuttered Midtown hotel now will be converted for a different, much-needed housing type along the extended route.

A Kansas City nonprofit serving people experiencing homelessness will convert a shuttered Midtown hotel to expand its temporary housing capacity.

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Take a look at some of the new species they described in 2025 (including one that bears a striking resemblance to a Simpsons character!) on our Discover + Share blog at the link here: buff.ly/Ywys80g

📸 Alfredo Fuentes

#MOBOTGarden

Flint Hills rancher works to restore biodiversity of imperiled Kansas tallgrass prairie ecosystems • Kansas Reflector Cattle ranchers like Bill Sproul have translated this conservationist philosophy into land management by adopting practices collectively known as “regenerative grazing.”

Flint Hills rancher works to restore biodiversity of imperiled Kansas tallgrass prairie ecosystems | via Erin Socha #ksleg

🇺🇸 Trump: Putin wants Ukraine to succeed.

And Zelensky’s reaction…

Also very generous: pol pot

Phone call length now an indicator of virility.

Russia is the largest country in the world with a massive nuclear arsenal. They should cede about 30% of their land and give up their army if they can’t defend themselves. It’s a danger to the rest of the world. #peace

Seems like #kansas is building a professional sport mecca & #missouri is, among a bunch of shit, building data centers, immigrant detention, suing China & disregarding what Missouri voters have voted for: minimum wage, access to healthcare for women, & the actual petition process.

Everyone in the state of Missouri deserves healthcare.
Including but not limited to the 1, 200, 499 Missourians who fought for and voted for Vice President Harris.