"Yet despite his success, he always seemed like his best films: decent, principled, humane." Still thinking about Rob Reiner www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...

Editor and Publisher magazine has an interesting piece on how 2025 has become a "year of fear" for American newsrooms, buffeted by direct attacks from the Trump administration and anger from the general public. READ: https://loom.ly/JqqtTU8

After firing the business leaders who accepted a federal contract to design immigration detention facilities, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation's chairperson, said he is working to cancel the contract. (@kansasreflector.com)

Pedestrian fatalities in Missouri are up 22% from last year's record high, while we remain one of just four states without a statewide active transportation plan. Please consider a charitable donation to help us keep fighting for safety! bikewalkkc.org/getinvolved/... www.kcur.org/housing-deve...

Why don’t journalists fight back against Trump’s insults? Do they stay silent to protect corporate profits? Will they ever reach the point where they tell Trump to f– off? My Stop the Presses newsletter.

When Steven Caldwell-Bey wasn’t able to get a regular refill for his blood thinners, he began taking one pill a day instead of two to stretch them out. The problem, he said, is that it’s been difficult to get medical attention at Jefferson City Correctional Center because so many nurses have quit.

A NEW FACE IN #KCBABY'S GKU 🤩 Marisa Jordan signs a two-year contract through 2027 after a trade with NC in exchange for a 2026 international roster spot. Welcome to the Heartland 🙌

A rare win for public records access -- and the government officials who must comply with the law. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/10/c...

Meet the Williams sisters of soccer: Temwa and Tabitha Chawinga www.theguardian.com/football/202... @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social #sisters #SistersRule

My Substack essay on why, when traditional journalism has never faced more challenges, I have joined an effort by the Society of Professional Journalists to recommend updates for its near-100-years-old Ethics Code. And I want to hear YOUR ideas! READ: https://loom.ly/pDKOQq8

Can't believe how fast these new Defend KCUR tees are selling 👀Don't miss out — donate $30 to claim yours today. KCUR.org/defend

"And so a place that had been devoted to second chances now had a very different mission, and a new name to go with it: 'The Cornhusker Clink.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.

A roving ICE patrol chased down an Olathe man with no criminal history, wrapped him in chains, detained him without a warrant and deported him to the country he fled at age 16 as an asylum seeker. His experience is typical of ICE activity in Kansas City. #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/10/r...

Scott is here to stay 💫 Katie signs a new contract with the club through 2027 ✍️

You have the right to record ICE. You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it. Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.

Julian Alcala, 30, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to 20 felony counts. In exchange for the plea, prosecutors have agreed to drop a destruction of evidence charge. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)

This week, victims of disgraced Kansas City, Kansas, Police Detective Roger Golubski and other social justice advocates marked one year since Golubski died by suicide on Dec. 2, 2024.

Not "pickup truck?" Or "manhood?"

Another Kansas City firefighter with multiple DWIs remains on the job. A story via @judylt.bsky.social is part of our investigation into KCFD employees who have been charged with serious crimes and allowed to remain on the job for years. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

Tom Witt, former executive director of Equality Kansas, returns to public stage as a candidate to replace retired Democratic state Sen. Mary Ware #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/02/l...

In the year since disgraced Kansas City, Kansas, Police Detective Roger Golubski killed himself last December, his victims say nothing has changed. When Golubski dodged his federal trial on the day it was to begin, it denied any chance of accountability for his victims and the community he abused.

Fox News faces critical test in 2nd big defamation suit over spurious 2020 election fraud claims My story for NPR www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...

It's been one year since disgraced KCKPD Detective Roger Golubski committed suicide just as his federal trial was to start. Victims say their hopes for justice also died that day. www.kcur.org/news/2025-12...

Popular on @kcur.org last week, even tho it's a bit in the (legal) weeds: The state’s prosecutors say that if a recent ruling by the Missouri Court of Appeals is allowed to become law, “mere shoving matches could justifiably be escalated to gun battles." www.kcur.org/news/2025-11...

My colleague @dmehro.bsky.social and I have been working on this for a year -- a hacked list of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police officers who are on the department's misconduct list. www.kcur.org/news/2025-11...

For one of my final stories with @wired.com, I teamed up with @peggylowe.bsky.social at KCUR to dig through a Kansas City, KS police hack Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted Here are a few of them:

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

NPR says the Corporation for Public Broadcasting unlawfully yielded to political pressure by Trump, "yet one more example of a major institution yielding to the president's whim." www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

If you're in Kansas City next Thursday night and you're interested in #redistricting, you should join us: www.kcur.org/redistrictin...

Oh hell no. www.stlpr.org/government-p...

"I often think of Donald Trump not as a president or even as a human being but rather as a social science experiment in how much out-in-the-open corruption the American public will tolerate before it calls foul." The New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/2022...

JUST IN: The ENTIRE East Wing of the White House has officially been DEMOLISHED, per AP.

If you're in Kansas City next Thursday night and you're interested in #redistricting, you should join us: www.kcur.org/redistrictin...

Here we go again with the Kansas City Police Dept. asking for more money: www.kcur.org/news/2025-10...

When this happened to me I was shocked and made late for the press conference I was going to in the courthouse. It was a very aggressive search. www.kcur.org/news/2025-10...

When the Kansas Bureau of Investigation released its second report on the death of an inmate in the Wyandotte County jail, it said it was a homicide. What it didn't say? A sheriff's officer knelt on the inmate's back before he was asphyxiated. www.kcur.org/news/2025-09...

The gathering mirrored large protests nationwide designed to amplify the voices of workers this Labor Day and object to the perceived disenfranchisement of Democrats by Republican efforts to redraw the lines around blue districts.

Update to the killing of KCKPD Officer Hunter Simoncic: Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office will hold a press conference at 3pm to discuss the charges in the case of Dennis Mitchell III. Yesterday's story: www.kcur.org/news/2025-08...

Some damn fine news at @kcur.org and for Kansas City journalism. www.kcur.org/inside-kcur/...

I LOVE back-to-school and fall and this story made me even happier. From Jodi Fortino and @kcur.org

When disgraced KCK Police Detective Roger Golubski killed himself the day his federal trial was to start, his victims were furious and skeptical that he was actually dead. Wyandotte County DA Mark Dupree, who was at the scene that day, says Golubski died by his own hand. www.kcur.org/news/2025-08...

KCUR investigative reporter Peggy Lowe and KFF Health News reporter Bram Sable-Smith have won a national Edward R. Murrow Award Thursday for their news series "The Injured." https://loom.ly/ZmhmQP4

Introducing: our new resources hub! Looking for all of our timely guidance on how to accurately cover trans communities? Trying to understand complex political messaging about governmental efforts to limit trans rights, or spot misinformation on a deadline? It's all in one place now 👇

Every summer we have the awful duty to watch the murder count in Kansas City. This summer, we're seeing domestic violence-related homicides lead the pack. I went to a victim's funeral last Saturday and it's heartbreaking: www.kcur.org/news/2025-08...

Public media stations around the country are anxiously awaiting the results of today’s House vote that could claw back $1.1 billion from public broadcasting.

"Since the 1960s, studies have shown that heavy-handed policing and militarized responses tend to make protests more volatile — not less." www.themarshallproject.org/2025/06/09/l...

Three mothers whose children were shot during the Chiefs' Super Bowl rally in 2024 are suing a host of entities, saying the mass shooting shows systemic failure and could have been prevented. www.kcur.org/news/2025-06...

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The descriptions of Roger Golubski as the king of the KCK streets for decades, ultimately rising to head of the KCKPD homicide division, are a far cry from how he died. www.kcur.org/news/2025-05...