You’ve heard the orders barked on social media, by employers and by the city: Stay home. It turns out we’re being tracked, and a tech company knows who isn’t following stay-at-home directives. Location data experts at Unacast created an interactive map—what the company calls a Social Distancing Scoreboard—to track movements in counties across the country.… Continue reading Big data firm grades KC-area counties on social distancing—Cass and Wyandotte need to get it together
No matter how long you’ve lived in Kansas City, you’ve probably missed out on several historical tidbits. For example, the City Market neighborhood was once a bustling red-light district where renowned district queen Annie Chambers owned an opulent twenty-five room brothel. After Chambers died in 1935, an evangelical Christian ministry inherited the home and turned… Continue reading Walk through historic KC with this new free audio tour
Kansas City is among very few major American cities without a lively, vibrant open park space in its urban core. That’s not for lack of real estate. Barney Allis Plaza is only about three acres, but it occupies prime position downtown next to the convention center and within two blocks of five luxury hotels. Currently,… Continue reading A crumbling underground parking deck in KCMO makes for tough decisions
A Missouri university “could be on the verge of a breakthrough’ in COVID-19,” reports the St. Louis Business Journal. Washington University in St. Louis has received clearance from the FDA to test a century-old idea in the battle against the virus SARS-coronavirus-2, which causes the disease COVID-19. The idea is simple: Those who successfully combat… Continue reading A Missouri university ‘could be on the verge of a breakthrough’ in COVID-19: report
