Nick and Jason take some time to look in on the County government and controversy surrounding property taxes as well as the local library system and their public conversations concerning diversity and equity. Oh, and did you realize Woodland Elementary was not inside City limits? Neither did we.

The news, happenings and events from around Lee's Summit — your Monday NewsLink for the week of September 30, 2019 is here.

The Lee's Summit community is made up of people, eople define the community. Hilary Graves and John Beaudoin sit down with Nick for a Friday conversation about a new public art project starting this weekend.

The City of Lee's Summit and the LS R-7 School District faced off this week in a duel of big announcements. OK, it wasn't really a face off. Nor was it a duel. But there was big news coming out of both City Hall and the Tony Stansberry Leadership Center as the mayor held his annual State of the City address and the R-7 Board of Education met and approved the CFMP team's recommendation to move 6th into the middle schools in 2022-2023 school year.

The news, happenings and events from around Lee's Summit — your Monday NewsLink for the week of September 23, 2019 is here.

This week's City Council meeting consisted of the annual discussion of the municipal tax levy. Jason and Nick take some time to break down what this annual review is and what it means for the average Lee's Summit tax payer and resident.

The news, happenings and events from around Lee's Summit — your Monday NewsLink for the week of September 16, 2019 is here.

For this Friday conversation host Nick Parker sits down with Ben Rao to talk about the upcoming Lee's Summit Chilifest and to celebrate the entrepreneur's 1-year anniversary of the Bridge Space coworking space in downtown Lee's Summit.

This week, we remember 9/11, we remind ourselves to keep talking about mental health and we take a look at the CFMP team's recommendation to the Board of Education — which includes moving sixth grade students out of elementary and into middle schools.

He's a musician, a radio host, an editor, a videographer and a philanthropist. He's also a pretty darn good teacher. This is Shawn Harrel.