Kansas City's Northeast Newscast

This week on Kansas City's Northeast Newscast, managing editor Paul Thompson meets Sheffield Neighborhood Association President Mark Morales to talk about his engagement in the community, what businesses he'd like to see in the neighborhood, the ideal Sheffield neighbor, what the neighborhood association has going on this summer, and what Sheffield can improve upon moving forward.

2019 KCMO Mayoral candidate Phil Glynn - one of two candidates from outside of City Council - joins Northeast News managing editor Paul Thompson for the latest episode of Kansas City's Northeast Newscast. Glynn discusses his experiences as a business owner in Kansas City, talks about his motivations for running for Mayor, and speaks passionately and eloquently about a plethora of issues: incl...

This week on Kansas City's Northeast Newscast, Northeast News managing editor Paul Thompson sits down with former Kansas State basketball player Luis Colon about his new job in the Historic Northeast. Colon is serving as a youth case manager at Sheffield Place, a transitional living center that focuses exclusively on providing treatment and life skills for homeless mothers. In the interview,...

This week on Kansas City's Northeast Newscast, managing editor Paul Thompson trekked through the woods with more than two dozen law enforcement officers as they attempted to recover stolen property from a rash of recent burglaries. Though the operation didn't go exactly as planned - no stolen property was ultimately recovered - it was an enlightening look at the life of a police officer,...

This week on Kansas City's Northeast Newscast, managing editor Paul Thompson sits down with Kris Wade of Justice Project Kansas City to talk about the impact of human trafficking on the Historic Northeast community. Wade spoke about her experiences working in the Northeast, the great needs of victims of human trafficking, how traffickers recruit their victims; the role of poverty in the cotta...

On this week's episode of Kansas City's Northeast Newscast, Northeast News managing editor Paul Thompson interviews Trena Miller, the new dedicated social worker for KCPD's East Patrol Division. Miller discusses the previous experience that led to her new position, the lessons she's learned during her first weeks on the job, her biggest challenges in the early going, and the si...

This week on Kansas City's Northeast Newscast, Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) Superintendent Dr. Mark Bedell joins Northeast News managing editor Paul Thompson to talk about his vision for the district and much more. In this interview, Bedell reflects on subjects like the difficulty of modern standardized testing, road bumps in the district's quest to raise its accreditation status, t...

This week on Kansas City's Northeast Newscast, managing editor Paul Thompson sits down with KCATA Transit Security Division Chief Hugh Mills to talk about his efforts to provide the safest possible experience for passengers and operators alike. Mills discusses how difficult the job of a bus operator truly is, touches on his own unique experience driving a bus as a teenager in Arkansas, descri...

This week on the 'Kansas City's Northeast Newscast' podcast, managing editor Paul Thompson sits down with Northeast Library branch manager Claudia Visnich to talk about her upcoming retirement. Visnich, who has served the Northeast community for nearly two decades, talked about her decision to retire, reflects on her career, discusses her favorite programming offered by the branch d...

This week on the Northeast Newscast, managing editor Paul Thompson talks with Independence Plaza Neighborhood Association President and local rehabber Tom Ribera. Topics of discussion include the apartment buildings at 11th and Paseo that he's currently renovating, the security measures he's taking to make sure potential tenants feel safe, his other rehab projects in the area, Ribera&apo...

In this week's episode of Kansas City's Northeast Newscast, managing editor Paul Thompson sits down with 3rd District Councilman Jermaine Reed to discuss a variety of subjects, including Reed's connections to the Historic Northeast and his thoughts about KCPS superintendent Dr. Mark Bedell; Marvel's Black Panther; the City's Ban the Box legislation, which Reed championed;...

KCFD firefighters John Mesh and Larry Leggio tragically died on October 12, 2015 while fighting a two-alarm blaze on Independence Avenue. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Mesh's brother Jim partnered with John's KCFD Pumper 10 colleague John Sirna to create the John V. Mesh Memorial Scholarship, a charitable organization dedicated to preserving John's legacy and honoring his love of...

On this week's episode of Kansas City's Northeast Newscast, managing editor Paul Thompson sits down with Gunard Polite, founder of One Kansas City Radio, to talk about the genesis of the non-profit radio station, the partnerships he would like to forge in the Historic Northeast community, his own music influences (and DJ career) growing up in Chicago, and One Kansas City Radio's par...

On this week's episode of Kansas City's Northeast Newscast, managing editor Paul Thompson sits down with Abby Judah of Legal Aid of Western Missouri to talk about urban homesteading - a process by which individuals are encouraged to live in and rebuild vacant properties with outstanding codes violations. Judah works with Northeast Kansas City neighborhood associations to identify blighte...

On this week's edition of the Northeast Newscast, we sit down with District 19 State Representative Ingrid Burnett to talk about what she learned during her first year in Jefferson City, the process of filing her first bill, the Governor's use of the text-erasing Confide phone app, how a ban on lobbyist gifts is missing the real problem, and why the City of Kansas City, Missouri should b...

Since September of 2017, Ana Ramirez has worked out of the Mattie Rhodes Center in the Historic Northeast as an Americorps VISTA - which is essentially the domestic version of the Peace Corps. For this week's episode of Kansas City's Northeast Newscast, host Paul Thompson sits down with Ramirez to discuss how she got involved with the program, her impressions of Kansas City and the Histo...

For this week's episode of Kansas City's Northeast Newscast, Northeast News publisher Michael Bushnell turns the tables on managing editor Paul Thompson to find out more about his experiences recording the first 37 episodes of the podcast. The pair discuss specific episodes and interviews, touch on the process behind the podcast, and look to the future to see where the Northeast Newscast...

This week on the Northeast Newscast, we're shaking up our format with a first-hand account of the machinations inside City Hall on Thursday, December 21 - as the Council attempts to salvage the Memorandum of Understanding with Edgemoor for the construction of a new single terminal airport. On Thursday, December 14, a 9-4 super-majority of the City Council voted against approving the MOU, leav...

On the latest edition of the Northeast Newscast, we sit down with Becky Gripp, the founder of The Tamale Kitchen, to get some insight into the Northeast-based business. Gripp invited us to a tamale cook to get a look at the process, and opened up about the many stages The Tamale Kitchen has gone through since it's genesis in July of 2015.Gripp also discusses the conception of the business, th...

This week on the Northeast Newscast, managing editor Paul Thompson sits down with KCMO 6th District Councilman Scott Taylor to discuss his 'Revive the East Side' economic package, his mayoral ambitions, the latest developments in the long-running short term rental (Airbnb) debate, and Edgemoor's recently released Memorandum of Understanding, which the Council's Airport Committe...

This week on the Northeast Newscast, managing editor Paul Thompson sits down with Healing House founder and Executive Director Bobbi Jo Reed, who began the non-profit addiction recovery organization in 2003. Reed discusses the genesis of Healing House, her most prideful moments leading the non-profit, the organization's Saturday, November 18 ribbon cutting ceremony for its new fellowship hall...

This week on the Northeast Newscast, Managing Editor Paul Thompson dives into the violent crime surge that has recently plagued Northeast Kansas City. After a rundown of incidents that have occurred over the past month, Thompson relays details of a conversation with Chief of Police Rick Smith, and plays audio clips from a community meeting with KCPD East Patrol leaders on the evening of Thursday,...

This week on the Northeast Newscast, Paul Thompson sits down with Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce President & CEO and Independence Avenue Community Improvement District (CID) Manager Bobbi Baker-Hughes. The episode begins with a discussion of the recent vandalism on the Avenue that claimed 16 planters - and the subsequent investigation conducted by Titan Security and the Urban Street...

This week on the Northeast Newscast, 4th District Councilwoman Jolie Justus sits down with Managing Editor Paul Thompson to discuss Kansas City's rash of homicides over the past week - and the steps that can be taken at City Hall to combat it, the role of guns in violent crime, and why she supports a new single terminal at Kansas City International airport.

This week on the Northeast Newscast, managing editor Paul Thompson sits down with Jordan Schiele, Project Director at Jerusalem Farm. Jerusalem Farm is a faith-based community service organization rooted in four key pillars: prayer, community, simplicity and service. Since Schiele (a licensed contractor) began the organization in the Historic Northeast five years ago, Jerusalem Farm has provided n...