Just as Gov. Mike Parson came to see the “model” in Missouri’s fight against Covid, the vaccination crusade at Morning Star’s Kansas City clinic announced its latest appeal: Now you can walk in and you can choose from any of the three available vaccines. “We know the vaccine works,” Parson said. “So we’ve got to make sure we get everybody to understand how important it is to get that vaccine to get back to somewhat of a normal life.”
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Everyone’s pretty much ready to let loose, right? Just in time comes a wave of learning adventures that promises to unleash the imaginations of children of all ages. Remake Learning Days is an innovative learning festival taking place May 1 -10.
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Ken Powell and David Disney are the new co-chairs of the Local Investment Commission (LINC)—a major Kansas City, Missouri, non-profit serving children, families, and neighborhoods in Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties.
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Out-of-school-time programs are emerging from their virtual hibernation, summer programs are making ready and InPlay’s website can help parents who are eager to see their kids find more opportunities to play and learn.
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U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt looked across the room in a community center at 27th and Prospect, watching Covid-19 vaccinations in progress, seeing confidence and hope where there might not have been so much before. “People are changing their minds,” the senator said about vaccinations. And Morning Star and LINC are leading the way.
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Levi Harrington lived his life in a Black man's world laced with the unfathomable fear of lynching. He died 139 years ago last week, roped at the neck and slung over a beam on the Bluff Street Bridge by a white mob in Kansas City's West Bottoms — murdered at the age of 23.
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Federal aid is now available by application for renters who have suffered financial losses during the pandemic. Here are the links to request federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program funds in the Kansas City area.
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Bond issues, levies and the earnings tax won big, but many school board races ran tight. See how the final, unofficial totals came out in the April 6 election for our partner school districts.
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They were restaurant workers, community organizers, neighbors. . . . They came to get their Covid-19 vaccination — certainly because they wanted to protect themselves and others — but also with a sense of obligation to put their faces out front against fear and doubt.
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The Morning Star–LINC vaccine and food distribution only continues to grow, the Rev. John Modest Miles told Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. “There is no ending in sight as long as the people keep coming. And as you can see now, the people are coming.”
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Janet Miles-Bartee has been named Executive Vice President of the Local Investment Commission (LINC) – a major Kansas City, Missouri, non-profit serving children, families, and neighborhoods in Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties.
This is a newly created position.
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The 2021 KIDS COUNT data book has arrived like a sentry ahead of a more dire and mysterious report still to come. That’s because the extensive accounting on the well-being of Missouri’s children compiled data gathered through 2019 — just before the pandemic changed everything.
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The road to financial independence can lead many ways, and LINC’s partnership with the Full Employment Council in Kansas City has been one of the state’s most effective efforts to help families in need find their way, says FEC President Clyde McQueen.
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It’s a small crew, embarked on this first voyage across the wide open sea of North Kansas City Schools’ new Early Education Center. But the thrill of first adventures fills these warm learning spaces, with the promise of so many more to come in the hundreds of children who will follow them here in the years to come.
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More financial aid is coming for many people who are struggling to pay utility bills, the Evergy electric utility in Kansas City announced. Evergy is urging customers in financial stress to go to the utility’s Financial Help page where it links to resources for customers who are either already behind on paying bills or struggling to pay bills.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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