http://www.kansascity.com/911/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from The Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2013Kansas City Star Midwest Voices Blog 60 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:13:02 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys 1.1.fi feedback@kansascity.com (Feedback) http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/nasa-engineer-bringing-mars-to-kc/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/nasa-engineer-bringing-mars-to-kc/#storylink=rss Mon, 13 May 2013 15:17 CDT Kobie Boykins is coming to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Boykins, though, is no artist http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/kc-more-blueblood-than-redneck/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/kc-more-blueblood-than-redneck/#storylink=rss Fri, 10 May 2013 14:24 CDT When a real estate website Movoto issued a list of the Most Redneck Cities in America, Kansas Citians were shocked to find our town ranked number two in the nation. As the Star reported yesterday, Kansas City, Missouri, was named the second most redneck city in America, behind only Atlanta, ... http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/nba-player-comes-out/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/nba-player-comes-out/#storylink=rss Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:55 CDT NBA center Jason Collins just became the first openly gay athlete in a major North American sport. If you need a reason why that matters, consider that there are millions of young people across the country and around the world who are confused about their sexuality http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/in-kansas-anything-is-now-possible/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/in-kansas-anything-is-now-possible/#storylink=rss Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:46 CDT This week Governor Brownback of Kansas signed a bill directing the KU Medical Center to establish a Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center. Though it doesn't provide any funding, the bill mandates that the university establish a center to research adult stem cells, as an alternative to embryonic stem cells http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/vaccinations-help-protect-all-children/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/vaccinations-help-protect-all-children/#storylink=rss Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:04 CDT As parents, we strive to provide a happy and healthy life for our children. Today we are able to do even more for our kids by protecting infants and children from 14 serious diseases through vaccination http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/crowdfunding-abounds-in-kc/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/crowdfunding-abounds-in-kc/#storylink=rss Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:24 CDT Crowdfunding is exploding in popularity. According to an industry report, online fundraising through websites including Kickstarter and Indiegogo more than doubled last year, with $1.6 billion raised in North America alone http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/expanding-medicaid-right-thing-do-all-missourians/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/expanding-medicaid-right-thing-do-all-missourians/#storylink=rss Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:50 CDT Rarely are state legislatures handed an opportunity to materially impact the lives of their most marginalized citizens in a good way. Missouri is presented with such an unparalleled opportunity right now http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/colleges-can-go-too-far-branding-cash/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/colleges-can-go-too-far-branding-cash/#storylink=rss Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:10 CDT Colleges and universities hurting for cash can go too far in getting donors to give money for the right to attach a name to a building or other stuff on campus. What then would be out of bounds? Public trash cans? Trees? Bathrooms and individual stalls? Sidewalks? Bike racks? Already ... http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/change-planned-kci-hits-speed-bump/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/change-planned-kci-hits-speed-bump/#storylink=rss Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:04 CDT Kansas City area residents don't like the changes proposed for Kansas City International Airport. Petitions filed Sunday with the city clerk's office signal a formal challenge to turn the 1972 airport into a one-terminal facility http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/dont-media-buy-your-own-if-you-are-rich/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/dont-media-buy-your-own-if-you-are-rich/#storylink=rss Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:49 CDT The Koch brothers apparently plan to follow Rupert Murdoch's pattern of buying and controlling the message that the media put out. Charles and David Koch, billionaires based in Wichita, are exploring a bid to buy the Tribune Co.'s eight newspapers, The New York Times reports http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/economic-disparity-still-hampers-black-success/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/economic-disparity-still-hampers-black-success/#storylink=rss Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:45 CDT Gwendolyn Grant dismisses any notion that we've entered a post-racial period since the nation elected and re-elected its first African American president. In the last 50 years, black men and women have gained freedoms and risen to civic and business heights that were once unimaginable http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/shame-unpatriotic-actions-missouri-kansas-lawmakers/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/shame-unpatriotic-actions-missouri-kansas-lawmakers/#storylink=rss Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:45 CDT The Boston Marathon bombings last week brought out a cooperative spirit among federal, state and local law enforcement authorities to help solve a case of international significance. Meanwhile, Kansas and Missouri lawmakers last week took shameful actions that made them look unpatriotic, virtually spitting in the face of the U.S http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/disturbing-superbugs-prevalent/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/disturbing-superbugs-prevalent/#storylink=rss Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:42 CDT Meat consumers should be alarmed. More than half of the samples of ground beef, ground turkey and pork chops picked up from supermarkets for testing in 2011 by the federal government contained salmonella, E http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/seat-belt-law-change-great-kansas-city/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/seat-belt-law-change-great-kansas-city/#storylink=rss Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:36 CDT For safety's sake, buckling up should be the rule for everyone in vehicles in Kansas City. Thanks to the City Council's action this week, it's now the law http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/why-senators-roberts-moran-and-blunt-arent-listening-you/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/why-senators-roberts-moran-and-blunt-arent-listening-you/#storylink=rss Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:04 CDT After hopes of even winning a rational debate in the U.S. Senate on gun safety fell apart on Thursday, a woman leaving the gallery said of the senators, "Who do they think they represent?" Good question http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/gun-lobby-too-big-fail/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/gun-lobby-too-big-fail/#storylink=rss Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:52 CDT The Obama administration was sent into full retreat, cursing the gun lobby for winning the latest effort at gun control. The National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers, like some banks in the United States, have become too big to fail, and President Barack Obama and other gun control advocates are ... http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/forum-to-launch-at-middle-of-the-map/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/forum-to-launch-at-middle-of-the-map/#storylink=rss Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:36 CDT For the second year, Ink's Middle of the Map festival is offering more than music. Tonight the Forum begins http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/us-senates-cowardice-gun-safety/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/us-senates-cowardice-gun-safety/#storylink=rss Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:57 CDT The U.S. Senate's handling of a gun safety package was cowardly and contemptible http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/interest-hale-cook-school-bodes-well-kc-district/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/interest-hale-cook-school-bodes-well-kc-district/#storylink=rss Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:09 CDT When enthusiastic parents knock on a closed Kansas City school's doors wanting the building reopened, district officials should roll out the red carpet to welcome them in. The surrounding southwest Kansas City community's interest, led by a nonprofit group Friends of Hale Cook, is prompting Kansas City Public Schools to ... http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/guns-must-stay-out-kids-hands/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/guns-must-stay-out-kids-hands/#storylink=rss Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:41 CDT It's easy to say that kids shouldn't play with guns. But a lot of people apparently aren't getting that memo http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/roadwork-creates-misery-kansas-city-commuters/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/roadwork-creates-misery-kansas-city-commuters/#storylink=rss Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:34 CDT People traveling northbound on Interstate 35 from Johnson County into downtown Kansas City faced miserable stop-and-go traffic this morning. Road crews were out making repairs after an unexpected failure of an expansion joint on Tuesday http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/we-wont-cower-after-boston/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/we-wont-cower-after-boston/#storylink=rss Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:31 CDT I ran the Boston Marathon on Monday and I expected to experience pain. I did, but it wasn't the kind I'd expected http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/kansas-school-standards-should-do-more-include-people-colors-contributions-history/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/kansas-school-standards-should-do-more-include-people-colors-contributions-history/#storylink=rss Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:26 CDT The Rev. Ben Scott is right to be concerned over changes in Kansas school standards not doing enough to include the contributions of people of color to this country's history http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/plaza-kc-zoo-power-light-will-survive-recent-troubles/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/plaza-kc-zoo-power-light-will-survive-recent-troubles/#storylink=rss Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:14 CDT In less than 24 hours earlier this month violent incidents brought negative attention to three Kansas City institutions. Despite the many naysayers out there, here's what the problems didn't do: Badly damage the futures of the Country Club Plaza, the Kansas City Zoo and the Power & Light District http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/lets-quit-rewarding-hospitals-mistakes/ http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/lets-quit-rewarding-hospitals-mistakes/#storylink=rss Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:29 CDT As polarized as we are over health care and how to pay for it, I'm pretty sure we can agree that hospitals should not be rewarded financially for bungling surgeries. But it happens, according to a study published Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association