Page 11 - Jonathan Bender News Today

Spring break, St. Patrick's Day and the NCAA Basketball Tournament offer plenty of distractions this news week in Kansas City.

The Tamale Kitchen, originally established to provide employment in a working class neighborhood, is using a recent capital infusion to convert from a nonprofit to a "profit-for-a-purpose" enterprise.

The Country Club Plaza is a development flash point again with the likely demolition of an attractive, but unprotected, old church and a developer's plan to replace it with a three-level restaurant project.

Although Kansas City established a housing trust fund to support affordable housing in 2018, it didn’t have any funding until recently. Here's a look at how some other cities manage their housing trust funds.

Here's a round-up of stories that give a birds-eye look at what community leaders are doing to educate, empower and keep people healthy.

Mean Mule Distilling Co. has created a "new wave" agave-based gin.

The Big 12 basketball tournament tops Nick's Picks this week in Kansas City.

Belger Glass Annex hopes to ignite the artistic glass making potential of Kansas City.

Psilocybin, ketamine and MDMA may offer new hope for people dealing with depression, PTSD, cancer and other conditions.

A new book written by Jim Cosgrove, better known as children's performer "Mr. Stinky Feet," documents the disappearance and subsequent murder of Frank McGonigle, a member of the prominent Kansas City family that operated McGonigle's Market.