Up To Date
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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.
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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.
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@KCURUpToDate
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English
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4825 Troost Ave, Ste 202 Kansas City, MO 64110 816-235-2888
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Episodes
KCATA board member hopeful for contract with Kansas City, but calls out 'political grandstanding'
8/7/2025
Bridgette Williams, who represents Wyandotte County on the KCATA Board of Commissioners, remains hopeful that a deal will be made soon with Kansas City, Missouri. The transit agency needs a contract soon to secure funding and prevent bus service cuts.
Duration:00:14:13
Some Missouri school leaders question the 'ripple effect' of banning cellphones
8/6/2025
Missouri students won't be able to send texts or check social media during class after Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a law banning cellphones during school — although there are some important exceptions. School leaders tend to agree that phones are disruptive, but they worry about enforcement of the law.
Duration:00:19:06
Some Kansas City buses will get AI-powered cameras with 'facial recognition' tech
8/6/2025
RideKC buses are each already equipped with four interior and four exterior cameras. New AI-powered cameras are being installed to detect possible security threats and automatically alert authorities.
Duration:00:14:12
Volunteers are the 'heartbeat' of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Kansas City needs 6,000 of them
8/5/2025
Volunteers will be instrumental in introducing the world to Kansas City during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. KC2026 needs 6,000 people to take on volunteer roles during the games, the fan festival and other events.
Duration:00:15:41
Kansas City mayor says city will look into building inspections after Family Dollar collapse
8/4/2025
Mayor Quinton Lucas says that Kansas City "doesn't necessarily have legal responsibility to inspect and guarantee" the safety of buildings after initial permits are approved. But he now wonders if the city can do more to prevent events like the deadly collapse of the Family Dollar on Broadway Boulevard last month.
Duration:00:44:38
Kansas City was named one of America's most dangerous cities. There's more to the story
8/4/2025
Kansas City was recently dubbed the eighth most dangerous city in America. Local experts want residents to better understand the conditions that drive violent crime — and what will fix them.
Duration:00:20:34
Overland Park singer Hailes wants her music to 'be the soundtrack to people's moments'
8/3/2025
Hailes spent the last several years in New York, where she performed in "Hadestown" on Broadway and started her own solo career. She's back in Kansas City ahead of a show at The Blue Room on August 5.
Duration:00:14:15
After KCFD paramedic death, Sen. Schmitt wants harsher penalties for assaulting first responders
8/2/2025
Kansas City first responders get bit, spit on and cursed at while on the job. In one recent case, a firefighter paramedic died after being stabbed in the chest. Increased attention to these incidents has sparked increased protective training by the Kansas City Fire Department, and proposed federal legislation from a Missouri U.S. Senator.
Duration:00:10:08
Kansas City is attracting more projects like 'Ted Lasso.' But the city's film industry isn't new
8/1/2025
Film crews seem to be getting more common in Kansas City thanks to state and local tax incentives. Two veterans of the Kansas City film industry also remember the 1990s as a heyday of filming in town.
Duration:00:15:22
Missouri organizers want to make it harder for lawmakers to overturn voter-led ballot measures
8/1/2025
Missouri lawmakers overturned a paid sick leave law, and advanced an amendment to overturn abortion rights, only six months after voters originally passed both measures. Now, the bipartisan group Respect Missouri Voters wants to put a new initiative on the ballot to prevent that from happening.
Duration:00:18:48
The Kansas City Current are the top team in the NWSL, by a wide margin
7/31/2025
As the Kansas City Current prepares for a match against Racing Louisville on Friday, the team currently sits miles ahead of the rest of the league in the NWSL standings. How has this team been so successful?
Duration:00:12:23
At Kansas City Chiefs training camp, these are the biggest storylines to follow
7/30/2025
Chiefs training camp is well underway up in St. Joseph, Missouri. The Kansas City Star's Blair Kerkhoff discusses the atmosphere among players, the team's major on-the-field storylines and the latest on stadium talks.
Duration:00:18:43
Rep. Sharice Davids says Kansas will feel damaging 'ripple effect' of Medicaid and SNAP cuts
7/30/2025
Kansas Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids said that Kansans will begin to feel the effects of the spending cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program at the beginning of the year. She spoke with KCUR's Up To Date about the recent budget bill signed into law by President Trump.
Duration:00:23:13
Will Missouri redistrict Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's seat so it favors Republicans? Trump hopes so
7/29/2025
President Trump is asking Missouri Republican lawmakers to re-draw its congressional districts around Kansas City, aiming to flip Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's seat. It's part of a larger push to redraw congressional lines to benefit Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Duration:00:17:27
It's one week until the Kansas City, Kansas, mayoral primary. Hear from another candidate
7/28/2025
Six candidates are hoping to replace Tyrone Garner as the next mayor of Kansas City, Kansas. KCUR's Up To Date spoke with Gwendolyn Thomas ahead of the August 5 primary — and we interviewed three other candidates in an episode last week.
Duration:00:11:43
Drivers for IRIS, Kansas City's rideshare service, are suing over unfair work conditions
7/27/2025
IRIS workers say they were misled about pay and aren't being treated fairly by their employer zTrip. Drivers demanded the right to unionize last year.
Duration:00:15:59
Kansas City's streetcar launches service to UMKC in October. The Berkley Riverfront is next
7/26/2025
Final preparations are underway for the KC Streetcar's Main Street extension grand opening on Oct. 24. And the riverfront extension is expected to launch in early 2026.
Duration:00:17:32
What's going on with Jackson County property tax bills? The county assessor explains
7/25/2025
Missouri ordered retroactive limits on property assessment increases in Jackson County. But, according to county assessor Gail McCann Beatty, that order means "inequities will remain."
Duration:00:31:42
Kansas City welcomes 'Ted Lasso' home as fourth season films around town this week
7/24/2025
The hit Apple TV+ series "Ted Lasso" is filming its fourth season around Kansas City this week. Locations include on the Country Club Plaza and in Blue Springs, where residents of the neighborhood were allowed to watch some of the filming — and meet Jason Sudeikis.
Duration:00:06:58
Kansas makes it harder to access contraceptives and birth control than any other state
7/23/2025
Millions of women use birth control to prevent unintended pregnancies and for other medical necessities. But a new report found that Kansas' policies on contraceptives and family planning are the worst in the country.
Duration:00:08:07