This post is decades in the making. Since high school, I have been interested in a particular part of my childhood that neighbors discussed uneasily, or apologetically, if at all. The big park up the ...

Federal officials first toured the building in January, sparking speculation over whether the owners had sold the building to the U.S. government. Media reports suggested the sale was part of a push to use warehouses across the country as immigration detention centers.

The redistricting wars are ramping up. Here are the top places to watch.

We’re in the center of the country. But everything is far away.  The Center of the Country Recently I told a friend I moved to Kansas City and he said “Oh that’s not bad, you’re smack dab in t…

Long commutes are associated with a number of adverse personal impacts: higher stress levels, increased risk of obesity, lower overall life satisfaction, reduced sleep duration, and weaker social t…

An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to The Star that the retail giant founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos is considering bringing drone deliveries to Kansas City.

The Border War Aaron Renn has a great old blog post about the Kansas City Metro’s unique political geography. As he notes, we have the highest share of any MSA of population living across a state l…

“When Kemper Arena opened, the West Bottoms was nearly vacant…Perhaps the philanthropist hoped his gift might inspire other investment there, but like Crown Center, the effort was flawed: it disper…

The 2024 Census population estimates for MSAs and counties were released this week. They found a one-year increase of 24,817 people in the Kansas City MSA, outpacing last year’s 19,305. Here …

After a decade and a half of overhype/underdeliver media cycles, self-driving cars are now clearly on their way. Waymo ran four million fully driverless trips last year and will be in thirteen US c…

Here’s a map showing the interstate highway system in Kansas City scaled by traffic volume.1 Unfortunately wordpress’s free tier won’t let me host or display interactive content, …

By 2030, leading AI labs will need data centers so massive they will require the power equivalent of some of America’s largest cities. Will they be able to find it?