Segment 1: Hospitals in the capital city are within their capacity, but some residents bristle at stay-at-home orders. A large number of residents in Topeka are obeying requests to stay at home. Others, the city's mayor said, take offense at th

Seg. 1: Rep. Cleaver | Seg. 2: COVID-19 & Missouri Prisons | Seg. 3: Social Relationships Suffer

Apr 9th, 2020 56m 21s

Segment 1: How Missouri's 4th Congressional District is weathering the COVID-19 outbreak. Various congressional actions will result in massive amounts of money being divided among individuals, businesses and banks within a couple of weeks. One

Seg. 1: Rep. Hartzler | Seg. 2: Police & COVID-19 | Seg. 3: David Von Drehle | Seg. 4: Media Critics

Apr 8th, 2020 57m 1s

Seg. 1: COVID-19 Myths & Facts | Seg. 2: Truman's Crisis Leadership | Seg. 3: Pandemic Gardening

Apr 7th, 2020 57m 19s

Segment 1: What we know about COVID-19, and what we don't A lot is unknown about the novel coronavirus currently circulating the globe, giving rise to myths about how it spreads, how to keep it from spreading and how to reduce one's chances of

Seg. 1: Kids & COVID-19 | Seg. 2: Ask An Expert | Seg. 3: Racism And Pandemic

Apr 6th, 2020 55m 27s

Segment 1: Tips for talking to children about the ongoing crisis. Parents are under a lot of pressure these days as their kids ask questions about this new world they're living in. It's a lot of change all at once. But respect, honesty and unde

Seg. 1: Incarcerated During Pandemic | Seg. 2: COVID-19 Disrupts Workouts | Seg. 3: College At Home

Apr 3rd, 2020 56m 24s

Segment 1: Public defenders are calling prisons during pandemic ticking time bombs In light of the ongoing COVID-19 scare, individual correctional facilities in Kansas and Missouri have decided to release certain prisoners, but public defenders

Seg. 1: COVID-19's Frontline Fighters | Seg. 2: Dividing Household Chores

Apr 2nd, 2020 57m 45s

Segment 1: Health care workers continue to work in unsafe environments. A lack of protective gear and the silent nature of COVID-19 are just two new concerns piled on top of existing ones Kansas City health care providers deal with during the p

Seg. 1: Blue Springs Mayor | Seg. 2: KC Fed President | Seg. 3: Kansas City Mayor Lucas

Apr 1st, 2020 57m 29s

Segment 1: "No one is immune" to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, said Mayor Carson Ross. The spread of the new coronavirus has already delayed local elections in Blue Springs, Missouri, but the full extent of the damage is yet to be kn

Seg. 1: Helping The Homeless | Seg. 2: Essential Workers In Pandemic

Mar 31st, 2020 56m 14s

Segment 1: How the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the least fortunate among us. One advocate for people experiencing homelessness says that population is always in crisis. When you add a worldwide pandemic to the mix, the stakes are even hig

Seg. 1: North KC Mayor Pro Tem | Seg. 2: Library Offerings | Seg. 3: Small Businesses Suffer

Mar 30th, 2020 58m 4s

Segment 1: North Kansas City responds to the coronavirus pandemic. An immediate concern for this Northland municipality is warm weather attracting still too many people to public parks. In the medium- and long-term, local businesses will be hit

Seg. 1: Kansas Gov. Kelly | Seg. 2: Olathe Coronavirus Response | Seg. 3: Personal Finance Questions

Mar 27th, 2020 58m 2s

Segment 1: Adapting Kansas counties, businesses, schools and employees to coronavirus Gov. Laura Kelly has signed a series of executive orders aimed at safeguarding the health of Kansans during the COVID-19 pandemic. We asked her about criticis

Seg. 1: Stranded In Peru | Seg. 2: Kansas Educators Respond | Seg. 3: Coronavirus & Missouri Schools

Mar 26th, 2020 58m 6s

Segment 1: Kansas City, Kansas, family stuck in Peru His wife and daughter have been in Lima, Peru, since January, and Brian Copeland felt like spending some vacation time hanging out with them there. He didn't expect he'd end up spending weeks

Seg. 1: Joanna Wilson | Seg. 2: Gladstone Mayor Carol Suter | Seg. 3: Food Insecurity Panel

Mar 24th, 2020 57m 6s

Segment 1: Wife's Facebook post seen by hundreds meant one more hospital visit with her husband before he died Five days after he was diagnosed, Dennis Wilson became Johnson County's first death caused by COVID-19. His wife, Joanna Wilson, expl

Seg. 1: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver | Seg. 2: Legal Queries From Coronavirus | Seg. 3: Mayor Quinton Lucas

Mar 23rd, 2020 59m 18s

Segment 1, beginning at 4:12: Current Washington debates revolve around who should get a bailout due to the COVID-19 crisis. Congress seems willing to shell out massive amounts of cash to make up for lost economic activity, but lawmakers can't

Seg. 1: Rep. Sharice Davids | Seg. 2: Coronavirus & Communication | Seg. 3: Art & Social Distancing

Mar 20th, 2020 56m 4s

Segment 1: "I'm going to continue to work really hard, I'm just going to do it from home," said U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids. Despite deciding to self-quarantine after potential exposure to the novel coronavirus, Kansas' U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids sa

Seg. 1: Sen. Roy Blunt | Seg. 2: Mayor Quinton Lucas | Seg. 3: Coronavirus Unemployed Q&A

Mar 20th, 2020 56m 50s

Segment 1: What Washington lawmakers are working on in response to the spread of COVID-19. The federal response to the spread of coronavirus had "a clunky start," said Missouri's senior U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt . Since then federal decision-makers h

Coronavirus Q&A: Is It Safe To Go To The Bank?

Mar 20th, 2020 57m 45s

Answers to coronavirus questions, and resources available in the Kansas City area As part of special coverage of the novel coronavirus, KCUR opened the phone lines to answer your questions. From hospital preparedness to mental health to where t

Seg. 1: Sports And Coronavirus | Seg. 2: The Digital Divide

Mar 20th, 2020 56m 18s

Segment 1: How sports journalists are adapting to a lack of sporting events. The coronavirus has proven to be a huge disruption in the world of athletics. Aside from professional teams suspending seasons (to the dismay of thousands), sports jou

Seg. 1: Rye's Pastry Chef | Seg. 2: Coronavirus + Restaurants | Seg. 3: Pantry Cooking

Mar 13th, 2020 50m 19s

Segment 1: Rye's Megan Garrelts is a semi-finalist for a James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef. While some pastry chefs make a name for themselves for crazy concoctions, a significant portion of Garrelts' success is the result of elevat

Seg. 1: Sick Leave + Viruses | Seg. 2: A People's History

Mar 12th, 2020 51m 12s

Segment 1: Can we really expect people to stay home from work when they're sick if they don't get paid sick leave? In Missouri and Kansas, employers are not required to provide sick leave. What does that mean as we watch the coronavirus spread

Seg. 1: Post Primary Feelings | Seg. 2: Gordon Parks x Muhammad Ali

Mar 11th, 2020 50m 10s

Segment 1: How voters are feeling the day after the 2020 Missouri Democratic Primary. Yesterday’s primary in Missouri and several other states may have been a turning point in the selection of a democratic nominee, but how we're feeling is a mi

Seg. 1: Leaving And Waving | Seg. 2: Bibliofiles On Travel

Mar 10th, 2020 50m 36s

Segment 1: In 1990, Deanna Dikeman took a photo of her parents waving goodbye to her as she drove away. She continued to take these pictures for decades and today, what started as random keepsakes is now a series of photos spanning through her

Seg. 1: Lead Abatement | Seg. 2: Coronavirus In KC

Mar 9th, 2020 50m 16s

Segment 1: Inequality in the story of lead contamination and lead removal. Homes in Kansas City's oldest and one-time affluent neighborhoods are now lived in by people without the resources to remove the lead paint commonly used before its dang

Seg. 1: The Truce Flag | Seg. 2: Telling Frankenstein's Story | Seg. 3: The Taming Of Shakespeare

Mar 6th, 2020 50m 12s

Segment 1: What if instead of the Confederate flag, the symbol of the Civil War was a worn out dish rag? The current exhibit at H&R Block Artspace is about the little-known Confederate Flag of Truce, a dish towel used by Confederate forces to s

Young Voters 2020

Mar 5th, 2020 49m 53s

Less than a week before the Missouri preisdential primaries, on the day that the Democratic field narrowed to a final two candidates, Kansas City area voters under 25 years old shared their journeys watching the process unfold so far. What are