Kansas City Swelter: Dealing With Dangerous Heat, Politics & War

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A/C For Community Offered

Cooling centers to open across Kansas City metro during heatwave

Independence, Missouri, and other Kansas City-area communities to open cooling centers amid heatwave.

Weekend Recovery Postscript

6 people transported to hospital during Gamin Air Show in Gardner due to heat

As an excessive heat warning has stretched its arms around the Kansas City metro, with many people are feeling its wrath.

Show-Me Legal Weed Game

Missouri cannabis regulators target 'lab shopping' in new rules * Missouri Independent

Marijuana testing labs face pressure to say products have higher THC potency results or lose business. DHSS' new rule aims to prevent the practice.

Rock Chalk Cowtown Collab

KU Athletics working with WWI museum during stadium redesign

LAWRENCE (KSNT) - Not everyone is aware what the 'Memorial' in KU football's David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium stands for. KU's Chancellor Douglas Girod asked reporters the same question during the announcement of the Gateway Project, the Jayhawks' $300 million athletics upgrades plan. The 'Memorial' part of the stadium is in memoriam of Jayhawks - [...]

Local Artsy Images Developing 

This Kansas City photographer makes magic on her driveway with frozen flowers

Unexpected bubbles, swirls of color, and a block of frozen flowers - it's all art to Susan Pfannmuller.

Vixens Behind Camera As Well

The Christopher Nolan of P*rn Is Breaking Down Barriers

Kayden Kross has fast become the greatest director in adult, winning the p*rn Oscar for Director of the Year two years in a row. She opens up about her journey to the top.

Fox News Shares GOP Hope

5 indications Joe Biden will not run in 2024

Though Joe Biden was mocked for seemingly campaigning for president from his basement in 2020, this summer he appears to be campaigning from the beach.

MAGA Doesn't Play By Rules

Trump's expected Georgia surrender and debate no-show shatter campaign conventionality | CNN Politics

The already logic-shattering 2024 White House race is expected to make an extraordinary detour through an Atlanta jail this week, with Donald Trump due to turn himself in over his fourth indictment - for alleged election meddling in Georgia.

NYC Confronts Immigrant Wave

Hochul, Adams face delicate alliance as migrant crisis swells

The influx of migrants into the state is threatening to wreck what has been a carefully crafted alliance between the governor and the New York City mayor.

War In Europe Cluster Cont'd

How Ukraine is exploiting Biden's cluster bomb gamble

The widely banned munition is wreaking havoc on Russian infantry, but concerns about unexploded ordnance remain.

Far East FAIL Underway

China's economy is in trouble. Here's what's gone wrong | CNN Business

China has long been the engine of global growth.

Behind On Workouts

Weather Girl Yanet Garcia & Fitness Influencer Jen Selter Teamed Up For A Meeting Of The Booty

If you were wondering if both Yanet Garcia and Jen Selter's backsides could fit in the same room at the same time, the answer is yes. The two booty

Gentrification In An Art

Artist Studios, Gallery Space Planned for Historic West Bottoms Warehouse

By Kevin Collison A historic West Bottoms building at 1001 W. Eighth St. is slated to be renovated as a gallery and artist studio space by a pair of artists themselves, one with deep family ties to the area. The $700,000 project is being pursued by Geoff and Cathy Beaham Smith.

Kansas City Heat Deets Redux

Dangerous, life-threatening heat expected for this week

Today is a First Alert Weather Alert Day

Tinashe - Needs is the song of the day and this is the OPEN THREAD for right now.