Because the Kansas City region mostly lacks reliable public transportation, people routinely drive without valid licenses. But that can mean court dates, escalating fines and bewildering encounters with law enforcement and legal bureaucracies
Kansas City, Kansas, police have created what might be the nation’s first police-run driver training school to help get unlicensed drivers off the streets.
In South Kansas City, Death of Newspapers is Greatly Exaggerated
In South Kansas City, Death of Newspapers is Greatly Exaggerated
Martin City Telegraph Fills a Void, Finds an Audience Share this story Published December 23rd, 2020 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: Sales director Dwight Barrett and publisher Kathy Feist in their newspaper office in Martin City. (Barbara Shelly | Flatland)
Kathy Feist was frustrated. She and her neighbors in south Kansas City were about to vote in a special election to send a representative to the Missouri legislature and Feist couldn’t locate much helpful information about the candidates.
“The only way to find out anything was to look at the signs in people’s yards,” she said. “I felt people deserved better.”