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What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...

Jackie Nguyen, founder of Café Cà Phê, highlights the second installment of the Library’s four-part series on how to make entrepreneurship in Kansas C...

Three local business owners -- Kemet Coleman, La’Nae Robinson, and La’Nesha Frazier -- help the Library kick off a new four-pa...

Learn about the past, present, and future of vision loss during the premiere of the podcast and video series Foresight, produced by Kansas City’s A...

The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout...

While more than three dozen Kansas City restaurants have closed for good amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many, many more have managed to survive. But w...

More than three dozen Kansas City restaurants, from burger joints to fine food establishments, have permanently closed over the past 10 months, par...

Bluestem. Beignet. Poi-O. The Rieger. The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic extends all too sadly to some of Kansas City’s most adored restaurants, fro...

Kansas City has an infrastructure problem. Simply put, it can’t afford what it needs. Dennis Strait of the Kansas City studio of Gould Evans, an archi...

Adam Arredondo, executive director of the KC Startup Foundation, and Maria Meyers, executive director of the UMKC In...