If your mail-order prescription landed in a pile of snow on your doorstep last week, you may want to proceed with caution. Pharmacists warn that extreme temperatures — cold or hot — can change the chemical makeup of medicine, often making it less effective. But medicine coming through the mail in overheated UPS trucks or […]
New Missouri rule tries to protect mail-order medications from extreme cold and heat
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Healthy Homes found nearly 75 health code violations at Quality Hill Towers. So why is it considered habitable?
Correction: This article has been updated to clarify that Sentinel communicated with the Quality Hill Tenant Union during 2024. The company added that a third-party tested the water systems at 929 Jefferson in November 2024 and found no health issues. Hell Woods has been couch-surfing between two friends’ apartments since their landlord refused to renew […]
Posted inState Government
Private school, charters, home schooling and open enrollment: Missouri bills to watch in 2025
Some Missouri lawmakers want to give families more options beyond their traditional local public schools.
Posted inState Government
State line competition complicates economic development for the Kansas City metro
The Kansas City region is a major contributor to the economies of Missouri and Kansas despite border competition that has fueled massive government giveaways. Will efforts to finance stadiums for the Chiefs and Royals undermine a fragile truce?
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Scholarships, degrees and hazing: Missouri higher education bills to watch in 2025
Lawmakers have proposed changes to scholarships, in-state tuition and transfer credits, but they face a long road before potentially becoming law.
Posted inLocal Government
Historic winter storm forces City Hall, MoDOT to make tough calls on clearing Kansas City roads
For most people, a major snowstorm means stocking up on groceries, keeping a stack of blankets handy and maybe even a surprise day at home from work or school. But the Kansas City area’s weather response agencies have been working around the clock to clear up major highways, sidewalks and local roads to make sure major infrastructure can remain functional.
Now that the snow is finally clearing, those agencies are looking back at what worked well and what to change for next time.
Posted inState Government
One reason Kansas City has lousy public transit: state line
Recently, Richard Jarrold hopped on a bus to get from his office in the east Crossroads to an auto shop in Overland Park. The trip took nearly two hours, four times longer than driving a car. He had to wait for buses at 18th Street and Troost Avenue, at Grand Boulevard and 18th, and once […]
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Young inmates could get second chance with resentencing proposal
Ariana Cook was in a bad place in 2020. She was hooked on hard drugs and in love with a “master manipulator.” “I just knew I was gonna marry him and be a hood-rich junkie for the rest of my life,” she said. “I had no care in the world of regaining contact with anyone […]
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How Kansas City is both defined, and held back, by the state line
The Kansas-Missouri border splits Kansas City and divides the metro region more evenly, and sometimes problematically, than any American metro region cut in two by a state line.
Posted inKansas
Kansas lawmakers consider medical weed again. Is the fifth time the charm?
Kansas lawmakers are likely going to act on medical marijuana in the 2025 session. Maybe. Medical marijuana is becoming a perennial debate in Topeka, and it’s annually unclear how likely it is for a bill to pass. “I have sat through, I don’t know, three interim committee meetings,” said Sen. Cindy Holscher, an Overland Park […]