The university’s new policy prohibiting smoking and the use of all tobacco products on campus goes into effect Aug. 1. But there are no penalties for violators; “we are calling this a good citizen policy,” UMKC says.

Heritage Foundation economist Stephen Moore used outdated and inaccurate job growth information in an opinion column he wrote about Kansas tax cuts and Gov. Sam Brownback in early July. The wrong data undermined one of Moore’s key arguments — that low-tax states have shown tremendous job gains and that high-tax states don’t grow as strongly.

Mindy Corporon lost her 14-year-old son and 69-year-old father in the Jewish Community Center shootings that shook Kansas City in April, but she her energy is returning to the point where she is planning to run a marathon this weekend.