Up To Date
KCUR
What Kansas City cares about. Up To Date brings people together for daily conversations about what’s happening in our region and how it affects our lives. Featuring interviews with artists, lawmakers, experts and everyday residents, plus original reporting from the KCUR newsroom, Up To Date keeps our city connected.
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Kansas City, MO
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What Kansas City cares about. Up To Date brings people together for daily conversations about what’s happening in our region and how it affects our lives. Featuring interviews with artists, lawmakers, experts and everyday residents, plus original reporting from the KCUR newsroom, Up To Date keeps our city connected.
Twitter:
@KCURUpToDate
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English
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4825 Troost Ave, Ste 202 Kansas City, MO 64110 816-235-2888
Email:
uptodate@kcur.org
Episodes
Historic space research led by a KU graduate student gives clues of what's beyond our solar system
6/5/2024
An out-of-this-world discovery led by University of Kansas grad student Alex Polanski found 15 new exoplanets and determined the mass of more than 100 others, in what is the largest one-time survey of exoplanets to date. The survey of planets contextualizes how common Earth's solar system is — which turns out, is not as common as once thought.
Duración:00:17:18
Missouri needs to prioritize keeping its teachers, outgoing commissioner says
6/4/2024
Outgoing Commissioner of Education Margie Vandeven said recruiting and retaining high-quality teachers is a key factor to helping students succeed.
Duración:00:28:47
How Weston, Missouri's Juneteenth Heritage Jubilee uncovers local Black history
6/3/2024
The Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign of Weston, a small but mighty nonprofit dedicated to documenting the untold stories of Weston's Black forebears, held its first Juneteenth Heritage Jubilee in 2021. Since then, the small river town just north of Kansas City has become a destination for regional Black history.
Duración:00:23:03
Kansas City is seeing even more traffic deaths this year. What's needed to achieve 'Vision Zero'?
6/3/2024
Kansas City's Vision Zero program aims to completely eliminate traffic deaths by 2030. Except last year, fatalities went up, and in 2024 they're increasing even more. Leaders say the effort comes down to greater education, political will and cash.
Duración:00:23:58
KC Soundcheck: The Greeting Committee
6/2/2024
The Greeting Committee was formed by four Overland Park high schoolers in 2014 and has since become one of Kansas City’s most well-known and beloved indie bands. Their third studio album is coming out in June.
Duración:00:20:00
Exhibit at Missouri's Truman Library highlights one of America's biggest political upsets
5/31/2024
After a short bump in popularity after the end of World War II, incumbent President Harry Truman quickly became a lightning rod for criticism. A temporary exhibit in Independence focuses on the ensuing 1948 election, and displays more than 100 artifacts connected to the historic campaign.
Duración:00:16:40
Former U.S. Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat on 'The Art of Diplomacy' in Gaza and Ukraine
5/31/2024
Stuart Eizenstat is a diplomat, White House aide and author of the new book "The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World." He discusses his concerns of U.S. isolationism, and what history might tell us about Ukraine and Gaza.
Duración:00:22:35
Negro Leagues historian celebrates new MLB records as end of 'a long battle'
5/30/2024
Kansas City author Phil Dixon has spent decades arguing that Major League Baseball should incorporate Negro Leagues statistics into its record books. That finally happened on Wednesday.
Duración:00:20:52
John Rizzo to focus on 'rebuilding relationships' in new job running Jackson County Sports Authority
5/29/2024
John Rizzo, who has served as the Missouri Senate Minority Leader since 2021, will pivot to a new role overseeing the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals stadiums complex.
Duración:00:26:57
In her new book, Alice Randall declares that 'all country is Black Country' music
5/29/2024
In "My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future," author Alice Randall pairs her deep knowledge of the genre with her personal experience in the industry to document the often-untold stories of country's Black founders.
Duración:00:24:59
A $2.8 billion NCAA settlement over student athletes will change college sports forever
5/28/2024
A $2.8 billion settlement involving the NCAA sent shockwaves throughout the college sports world last week, paving the way for colleges around the country to pay student-athletes directly for the first time.
Duración:00:22:20
KC Soundcheck: Khrystal.
5/27/2024
The multi-talented musician and artist from Kansas City, Kansas, chats about her creative process, going back to school and showing up as her full authentic self.
Duración:00:21:20
Lawrence woman who killed her abuser seeks clemency from Kansas governor
5/25/2024
Sarah Gonzales-McLinn was 19 when she murdered 52-year-old Harold Sasko in January 2014. He had allegedly raped her, controlled her financially, coerced her into getting plastic surgery, and held her captive in his Lawrence home for months. She is now seeking clemency on her sentence from Gov. Laura Kelly.
Duración:00:23:21
'Undue Burden' tells the stories of people seeking abortions in post-Roe America
5/24/2024
Shefali Luthra's new book "Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America" tells real stories of Americans seeking abortion care in an era when the legality of the procedure differs state to state.
Duración:00:26:34
New Kansas City exhibit is an intimate look at chaplains and faith on the WWI battlefield
5/23/2024
Compelled by their faith, military chaplains served unarmed in the trenches of battle during World War I. As Memorial Day approaches, a new exhibit at the National World War I Museum and Memorial provides an intimate look at the role of chaplains during the Great War.
Duración:00:20:51
After years of disrepair, Sauer Castle in Kansas City, Kansas will soon be restored
5/23/2024
Sauer Castle's iconic tower was on the brink of collapse when Mike Heitmann bought it last year. Now, the building is stabilized and waterproof, and restorations are expected to be complete in about two years.
Duración:00:16:52
Kansas reported more tornadoes so far in 2024 than all last year — or the year before. Why?
5/23/2024
Five months in, this year is already the most active for tornadoes in Kansas since 2019. Two EF-1 tornadoes touched down in Johnson County last week.
Duración:00:15:36
Late Kansas City civil rights icon Alvin Sykes tells his life story in a new book
5/22/2024
The new autobiography "Show Me Justice: The Happy Life Journey of Alvin Lee Sykes" documents the extraordinary story of the self-taught legal scholar from Kansas City. Sykes fought tirelessly to re-open several unsolved civil rights cold cases, including the murder of Emmett Till.
Duración:00:22:43
Being diagnosed with autism later in life makes it hard to find resources, KU researcher says
5/22/2024
More adults are being diagnosed with autism after being misdiagnosed or simply not evaluated as kids. Even then, it's not always easy to find health providers who can offer proper support. For these two women, though, the diagnosis was actually "freeing."
Duración:00:27:56
Kansas City native and Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine to Israel: 'Don't make the same mistakes we made'
5/21/2024
Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a Kansas City native and 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee, is coming to town this weekend to talk about his new book. As a member of both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee, he also shared his insights on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
Duración:00:21:59