Kansas City Today

St. Louis couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey went viral last year after they stood outside their home and pointed guns at unarmed Black Lives Matter protestors. Now, a Missouri office that disciplines lawyers says the couple should lose their law licenses. KCUR’s Dan Margolies reported that story and stopped by to talk about it.

Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft thinks voter turnout in Missouri’s local elections would be better if they were partisan. More on this from St. Louis Public Radio's Rolla Correspondent, Jonathan Ahl.

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Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love and edited by Maria Carter and Lisa Rodriguez.

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Big retail companies in Kansas are trying to get out of paying property taxes by using a strategy called the "Dark Store Theory". The latest is Nebraska Furniture Mart in Wyandotte County. Steve Vockrodt, the investigative editor of the Midwest Newsroom, has been covering this issue, and he’s here to explain why.

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Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love and edited by Maria Carter and Lisa Rodriguez.

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Ollie Gates and Arthur Bryant, the Kansas City legends behind Gates Bar-B-Q and Arthur Bryant's Barbeque, will both be inducted into the Barbecue Hall of Fame Saturday at the 2021 American Royal World Series of Barbecue. KCUR’s Mackenzie Martin looks back at their decades-long legacies.

Also in headlines, Missouri will receive one of the largest numbers of Afghan refugees in the country and we’ll hear how a few Kansas City residents feel about the possibility of a downtown baseball stadium.

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Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love and edited by Maria Carter and Lisa Rodriguez.

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For two decades, Missouri has been an outlier among states when it comes to allowing open alcohol containers in vehicles. KCUR’s Alex Smith reports the unusual policy has come at a cost that's far beyond the roadway risks.

If you love ice cream cones and hamburgers then you can thank the St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904. But there is a lot about this international event that we remember wrong, or don’t remember at all. From KCUR’s podcast Hungry For MO, Suzanne Hogan reports.

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Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love and edited by Maria Carter and Lisa Rodriguez.

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson's nominee for the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners falsely claimed she was on the board of two charities and that she had “completed a high-level PhD program” at a university. Plus, the latest on Kevin Strickland's legal battle as he awaits a hearing to determine his innocence.

Also, a garden filled with more than 10 species of native flowers for pollinators is growing freely in front of a Kansas City home. But Dennis Moriarty, the man who planted them, is being told his flowers violate city codes. Moriarty explains to Up To Date host Steve Kraske why changing the code would be a win for the environment.

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Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love and edited by Maria Carter and Lisa Rodriguez.

You can support Kansas City Today by becoming a KCUR member: kcur.org/donate