LINC Commissioner Williams honored by Greater KC Chamber

The award is named for Athena, the Greek goddess who embodies strength, courage, wisdom, and enlightenment. Williams, a LINC Commissioner and former superintendent of the Hickman Mills School District, has given nearly 40 years in service of schools, children and teachers.

'Teetering on crisis,' KC medical directors plea for vaccination, masking; here's how to save lives

It was a roll call of pain, fear — even death. Kansas City area medical directors shared their grim accounting with the city in a public call for help Friday, beseeching a community “teetering on a precipice” to get vaccinated and to mask-up against Covid-19’s Delta variant. The Morning Star vaccination clinic is stepping up.

'Pain unlike any we've ever seen': Doctors issue dire Covid warnings for KC

Those weren’t their faces in the line of picture portraits. Nor were those their names. But the University of Kansas Health System professor telling their stories in an alarming public forum Wednesday assured that they and the devastation of Covid on their lives were real.

Re-opening Kansas City Phase One (and this is hard): Take it slow

The eagerness to reopen Kansas City passes the point of pain for so many. The competing official declarations and the public health warnings have created a hall of mirrors as we try to find the right way out to recover lives that will never be the same again.