‘It was the right time’: Why a veteran reporter finally agreed to talk about the Hyatt skywalk for a KMBC documentary

KMBC Reporter Haley Harrison in KMBC 9 Chronicle: The Skywalk Tapes/Screenshot

It’s been over forty years since two suspended walkways collapsed in the Hyatt Regency Kansas City hotel during an evening dance. One-hundred-fourteen people were killed and over two hundred were injured. It remains one of the deadliest structural collapses in the nation’s history. Former veteran KMBC reporter Micheal Mahoney was at the disaster, covering what… Continue reading ‘It was the right time’: Why a veteran reporter finally agreed to talk about the Hyatt skywalk for a KMBC documentary

Hop-infused History

Photography by Jeremy Theron Kirby.

Before Prohibition, breweries both small and mighty seized opportunity in a climate of ceaseless social change and fierce regional competition. Author Pete Dulin’s Kansas City Beer: A History of Brewing in the Heartland explores local breweries that operated from the mid-1800s to 2016, when the book was published. Updated slightly based on recent research, these… Continue reading Hop-infused History

Financial Planning in Kansas City: From Your Saving Years to Your Spending Years

Financial Planning in Kansas City: From Your Saving Years to Your Spending Years