Formerly editing at @TheBeaconKC and @ksnewsservice after mostly reporting (and some editing) @KCStar. Big feet, small intellect.
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Kansas City's pivot from an all-new $201 million permanent jail to a $120 million retrofit of the so-called World Cup jail was not born from any long-term strategic planning or a change in needs. Rather, it’s because of money. buff.ly/WopSdJP
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Narrator: there is an internationally famous annual bike ride across Iowa.
Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Iowa has extensive cycling infrastructure including bike lanes and trails, plus RAGBRAI, the world's largest multi-day bicycle tour which has crossed the state annually since 1973 with thousands of riders.
ragbrai.com
iowadot.gov/modes-travel/b…
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Wisconsin cranberry growers show their support for the Milwaukee Brewers in the World Series
📸: Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association
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Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.
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JOB: We are looking for our next reporting fellow!
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Missouri’s Amendment 3 would allow some abortions. Whether women could get them is unclear. #moleg #mogov missouriindependent.com/2026…
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In 1934, we added a gender-neutral pronoun for a single third person.
‘Thon’ was short for “that one.”
It didn’t catch on.
ALT Definition of 'thon' thon | pronoun | a proposed genderless noun of the third person
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[1/3] Advance Voting Update [10/20] 95,547 ballots mailed; 7,634 ballots returned; 47,851 ballots cast in person. Compared to 2022 – 132,285 sent; 6,000 returned; 21,279 in person. Compared to 2018 156,623 sent, 13,042 returned; 20,247 in person. #ksleg
A fascinating, and horrifying, battlefield account from Ukraine. How ground troops try to survive in a drone-dominated kill zone.
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
A possible good news story. Theory explained that sees AI neural networks as easier to understand — and to control — than we thought. technologyreview.com/2026/10…
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[1/3] Advance Voting Update [10/19] 92,115 ballots mailed; 1,239 ballots returned; 23,882 ballots cast in person. Compared to 2022 – 125,657 sent; 838 returned; 11,239 in person. Compared to 2018 150,142 sent, 1,745 returned; 5,464 in person. #ksleg
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You’re offered $500,000 but you have to live in Missouri for 24 hours. Would you do it?
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The last time the Milwaukee Brewers were in the World Series you could get 12 8-track tapes for only a dollar through The Gorman Thomas Tape Club®.
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After a decorated 24-year run at ESPN, Nicole Noren resigned in protest.
She couldn’t go along with the network’s all-out embrace of gambling.
For the first time publicly, in @CJR, Noren shares the deeply personal reasons behind her decision.
cjr.org/the-interview/nicole…
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Amendment 6 would make citizen initiatives extraordinarily difficult for Missouri lawmakers to change and would restrict their ability to rewrite the initiative process itself. #moleg #mogov
missouriindependent.com/2026…
