With a small-but-mighty restaurant culture, its own newspaper, and a vision for the future, the neighborhood of Martin City is a cultural hub in South Kansas City.
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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.”