Kansas City's Northeast Newscast

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with Judy Ancel — labor educator formerly with the University of Missouri Kansas City Institute for Labor Studies, executive producer of The Heartland Labor Forum Radio Show on KKFI 90.1 FM an...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with The Arts Asylum Executive Director and Paseo West Neighborhood Association President Evie Craig to continue our series on women in education. Throughout this episode, Craig delves into he...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with Director and Chief Executive Officer of The Museum of Kansas City, Anna Marie Tutera to continue our series on women in education. Throughout this episode, Tutera delves into her backgrou...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with Chancellor for Metropolitan Community College (MCC) Kim Beatty (P.h. D.) to continue our series on women in education. Beatty delves into current internal operations for MCC and how the e...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with CEO of Early Start, June McDaniel to kick off a new series, where we highlight women in education. Throughout this episode, McDaniel discusses her journey of how she went from working a p...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with Chair of Gender Equity Task Force of Kansas City Human Rights Commission Alice Kitchen to wrap up our series on women who influence policy. This marks the 10th and final episode of the wo...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with Owner of LIA (Life is Amazing) Inspiration and Member of Independence Plaza Neighborhood Council (IPNC) Laura Palacios to continue our series on women who influence policy.  Throughout th...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with Superintendent of Kansas City Public Schools Jennifer Collier (Ph. D.) to continue our series on women who influence policy.  Throughout this episode, Collier discusses what led her to he...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with Pastor of Independence Boulevard Christian Church and Executive Director for Intersect KC, Rev. Mindy Fugarino to continue our series on women who influence policy.  Throughout this episo...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with Former Superintendent for the Municipal Correctional Institute (MCI), Nancy Leazer to continue our series on women who influence policy.  Throughout this episode, Leazer delves into her c...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with Active Northeast Community Member Patricia Hernandez to continue our series on women who influence policy.  Throughout this episode, Hernandez shares her story as a Northeast resident, fo...

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, Carter Galloway is joined in the studio with Kansas City Public Library North-East Branch Manager Beccah Rendall and Media Relations and Communications Specialist Anna Bernard to discuss National Library Week, which took place from April 6 through April 12. Rendall and Bernard discuss the importance of National Library Week within the North-East branch and how th...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with UAW local 249 retiree (Ford Motor Company) Shirley Mata to continue our series on women who influence policy.  Throughout this episode, Mata shares her story as a former union worker incl...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with Founder and Executive Director of Hella Good Deeds, Béty Lê Shackelford to continue our series on women who influence policy.  Lê Shackelford — a first-generation, Vietnamese American — i...

On this week’s episode of Women Speak — a segment on Northeast Newscast — hosts Northeast News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Williams and former Missouri House Representative for District 19 Ingrid Burnett sat down with Kansas City Mayor Pro Tem, Ryana Parks-Shaw to continue our series on women who influence policy.  Parks-Shaw is currently in her second year of a four-year term as mayor pro tem. She is...

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, Julia Williams is joined in the studio with Junior League of Kansas City President, Courtney Raupp and its C3KC Event Co-Chair, Anna Thomas Rios to further discuss the Junior League and its eighth annual C3KC conference event at Union Station on April 9.  Raupp and Thomas-Rios further share particulars on this conference including specific panels and the recipien...

On this week’s episode of Northeast Newscast, Julia Williams is joined in the studio with former representative for Missouri District 19 House of Representatives, Ingrid Burnett to introduce a new newscast series, “Women Speak.”  Throughout this series, Ingrid will serve as a co-host, alongside Williams, as the two highlight local Kansas City women who work to influence policy and serve as trailbl...

On this episode of Northeast Newscast, we will continue our Open Studio series. Local artists, cake sculptor and muralist, Mike Elder and author, Jerry Potocnik join Julia Williams in the studio to discuss their creative backgrounds and current work, which they will prepare to exhibit this weekend, Dec. 7 and 8 at the Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s EGG space for  Northeast Arts KC’s t...

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, Julia Williams is joined in the studio with local artist, owner of Back Door Pottery and Northeast Arts KC Treasurer, Rebecca Koop to introduce a new segment — highlighting preparations for Northeast Arts KC’s third annual Open Studio Tour this weekend, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday Dec. 7 and 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 8. For this first episode, Koop wil...

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, Julia Williams sat down with California-based author Sarah Amos to discuss her short stories and Northeast Kansas City familial roots, which she said have largely influenced her haunted works.  In this episode, Amos shares her Northeast family heritage, tales of her relatives and gives listeners an inside scoop on her memoir in progress.  *Warning* This episode m...

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, Julia Williams sat down with Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood Association President, Jacob Luke and Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood Association President Elect, Dylan Van Gerben to discuss the neighborhood’s 29th annual Scare-it Halloween event Oct. 31 and additional happenings around Scarritt.  Additional discussions include current projects the neighborhood...

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, Editorial Assistant Emily Wheeler sat down with Missouri State House of Representatives  District 19 Democratic Nominee, Wick Thomas to discuss their campaign efforts and goals for legislation. 

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, we will introduce a new series — community journalism.  Julia Williams is joined in the studio with Northeast News Editorial Assistants RobyLane Kelley and Emily Wheeler to define and introduce community journalism — specifically the Northeast Community — its vitality and uniqueness from national-scale works. Throughout these episodes, past and present Northeast...

On this week’s Northeast Newscast, editorial assistant Emily Wheeler sits down with outgoing District 19 Representative, Ingrid Burnett. We discuss her plans post-office as well as her thoughts on the Northeast Transformation Plan and the new proposed state mental health facility. Rep. Burnett currently represents the Northeast area of Kansas City, as well as parts of the Westside, Riverside and C...

This week on The Northeast Newscast, Editorial Assistant RobyLane Kelley sat down with Gene T. Chavez — Kansas City Museum’s historian in residence — to discuss Hispanic and Latino representation within the museum and Greater Kansas City. As we kick-off Hispanic Heritage Month, we take a look at how Hispanic and Latino culture has shaped not only our area but our history.  Music from #Uppbeat (fre...