What's the state of newspaper endorsements of political candidates in 2020?
On today's Deep Background, The Kansas City Star's Colleen McCain Nelson joins Dave Helling and Derek Donovan to discuss the role of editorial board endorsements in today's fragmented media world. Iow...
22 Jan 202025min
A huge organic grain scam and trouble at Kansas City's UMB
How did Chillicothe, Missouri, farmer Randy Constant get away with one of the biggest agricultural frauds in American history? Star reporter Mike Hendricks joins Dave Helling and Derek Donovan to talk...
15 Jan 202043min
Quinton Lucas gears up to fight violent crime, and Hallmark takes on transformation
One of Mayor Quinton Lucas' highest priorities is finding meaningful solutions to the violent crime epidemic that makes Kansas City far more dangerous than most other cities its size. Star reporter Al...
8 Jan 202027min
A Star investigation into our broken foster care system: Is there a solution?
The Kansas City Star's Laura Bauer and Judy Thomas spent a year investigating the United States' foster care system. A quarter of those in our prisons started out as foster kids - and there are no eas...
18 Dec 201931min
Sarah Gonzales-McLinn killed Hal Sasko. But did she get a fair shake from her lawyer?
Star opinion writer Melinda Henneberger joins her editorial board colleagues Dave Helling and Derek Donovan to discuss Sarah Gonzales-McLinn, who was only 19 when she killed Hal Sasko, the man 33 year...
12 Dec 201927min
The strange case of Carol Dille, and a huge development project passes in Overland Park
Reporter Eric Adler joins Dave Helling and Leah Becerra to discuss the story of Carol Dille, an eccentric neighbor in midtown Kansas City. Then Sarah Ritter, a reporter, discusses public incentives fo...
4 Dec 201942min
Conservative student voices getting louder on college campuses
Justice Horn, the student government president at University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Alex Dwyer, a July graduate from the University of Kansas, sit down with The Star education writer Mara Rose W...
1 Dec 201947min
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly discusses her priorities for 2020
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly recently sat down for an interview with members of The Kansas City Star's Editorial Board, to talk about taxes, schools, Medicaid, and a host of other issues. This edition of D...
27 Nov 201938min
