Vote 411 has everything you need to know to cast your ballot April 6

The Kansas City 1% earnings tax, school board races and bond issues are just some of the questions waiting for voters April 6, and Vote411.org is ready again to help with election questions.

Kansas City education leaders urge COVID vaccinations

Their districts’ neighborhoods are hard-hit by Covid, but “here we have an opportunity to do something about it,” said KCPS Superintendent Mark Bedell as he was vaccinated. “I’m doing my part to keep everyone safe,” said Center Superintendent Yolanda Cargile.

Sign up: Many mass vaccinations using online registries

The first vaccination strategy: Sign up. Sign up. Sign up. While there will be other opportunities to get a Covid-19 shot, many of the mass vaccination events under way or planned in Kansas City are by appointment only. And officials are filling them by calling people enrolled on state and local registries. So sign up. And it’s OK to put your name on more than one list that applies to you.

Arrowhead Stadium to host mass Covid-19 vaccination opportunity

Some 6,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine are coming to Arrowhead Stadium as a Mega Vaccination Site March 19 and 20. Sign up now on the online Jackson County and Missouri vaccine survey lists to get in line for a vaccine. Anyone without Internet access can get help signing in by calling 3-1-1.

When ‘home’ is a roadside hotel, Impact Center Schools opens a way out

Just drive. Keep picking up taxi fares. Drive sick. Drive while tortured by an infected tooth. Drive exhausted. Otherwise, Center School District parent Josh McConnaughey feared, he’d lose the last grip he had on a “home” for his three teenaged sons — the weekly-rate hotel room looking out on wheel-roaring Interstate 435.

You can help connect people to free income tax filing

“You can help put thousands of dollars back into the hands of families that need it the most.” Kansas City’s free income tax assistance and filing program needs more volunteers.

Hickman Mills Family Summit shines online (and it's still live!)

The Hickman Mills Family Summit went virtual with success. And the best part: It’s still there, online, ready to serve any family looking for help or ideas from dozens of community resources, and job opportunities, and school pages.

Hickman Mills families grateful for 'Justice in the Schools' legal aid

The letter in June that told Lazanay Wandick the government was cutting off her pandemic unemployment benefits was not even the worst of the news. Far from it. See how the “Justice in the Schools” program aided her and other Hickman Mills families.

'Here to do our job'; LINC re-opening more sites, Covid-safe

Covid-19 cases are in rapid decline. Vaccines are coming. Reports from the CDC of low transmission in safe schools are encouraging . . . More children are coming back into school buildings, and LINC is ready.

Covid vaccinations for teachers, child care workers, Tier 3, to begin March 15

Missouri teachers, child care workers and other residents grouped in Tier 3 of the state’s priority ranking will be able to get Covid-19 vaccinations beginning March 15, Gov. Mike Parson announced today (Feb. 25).

The show will go on (and the prizes!) at virtual Hickman Mills Family Summit

Don’t worry. Things you love about the Hickman Mills Family Summit will be right there at your finger tips as the show goes on virtually March 6. Including the wealth of prizes.

Some LINC neighborhoods targeted for 3,500 Covid vaccines: Here's how to sign up

A joint campaign to take Covid-19 vaccines to underserved and vulnerable populations is targeting several LINC neighborhoods. Step one: sign up online with the Kansas City Health Department or call 3-1-1.

What’s on your ballot? School bond and levy issues, KC earnings tax, go before voters in April

Several area school districts hope to gain voter support for ballot measures April 6 to improve facilities, increase security and enhance athletics and arts experiences. And Kansas City’s 1% earnings tax will also be on the ballot.

Flatland: A Record of Kansas City Black History: ‘Chant Their Names, Almost As If Holy’

Flatland, Kansas City PBS’ digital magazine, shares the story of the KC Black History Project and the making of the special edition book.

Updates: Students returning to classrooms as Covid cases fall, with new CDC guidance

t’s been a long road. That’s for sure. But continued declines in Covid-19 cases plus more aggressive advice from the Centers for Disease Control are opening the doors for Kansas City Public Schools, Hickman Mills and Center to bring students back into in-person classrooms in the weeks ahead. And other districts hope to bring more students into already-open buildings.

Winter relief: Missouri boosts aid for families that qualify for help with utility bills

With severe cold temperatures weighing on future energy bills, Missouri is boosting the assistance available to qualifying households through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).

Morning Star Baptist, LINC take Covid-19 vaccines to the people

Because “Covid-19 is so serious in our community,” Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church and LINC work with the state and the National Guard to bring vaccinations to one of Kansas City’s most vulnerable neighborhoods.

Sign up: LINC's virtual chess tournament open now for children and adults

There is a spot for everyone at LINC’s virtual chess tournament March 6. Sign up is under way for age divisions that go from kindergarten through the 12th grade, and also an adult division.

Vaccines and how to beat Covid: 'The answer is in us'

In the campaign for Covid vaccinations, “The answer is in us,” Jim Nunnelly says. “We have assumed Black people don’t know anything — don’t want to do anything . . . and that is so untrue. There is great capacity in our community. Great capacity.”

Here's how to file your taxes for free, with help and Covid-safe

“My Free Taxes KC” is back, ready to help the thousands of Kansas Citians who can file their taxes for free. This time around, the fleet of volunteer tax preparers will be working from home virtually or at various drop-off sites to be safe during the pandemic, but helping people get their 2020 taxes in and their refunds back all the same.