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Chris Lester

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Managing Editor at Flatland

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  • The Beacon and members of the Kansas City media write letter to Mayor Quinton Lucas and members of the Kansas City Council

    1 month ago | thebeaconnews.org | Chris Lester

    To the honorable Mayor Quinton Lucas and members of the Kansas City Council:Over the course of the last five years, we, members of the Kansas City media, have grown increasingly concerned about changes in our access to transparent and accurate information from City Hall.

  • Amid wide policy swings, Kansas and Missouri officials puzzle over big federal funding cuts

    2 months ago | thebeaconnews.org | Chris Lester

    Gov. Laura Kelly worries about dwindling water resources that will need ongoing federal support if western Kansas is to remain habitable in 50 years. She is concerned about the national health impact of firing more than two dozen federal scientists in Manhattan, Kansas, who protect Americans from animal-borne diseases and other health threats.

  • A New Way to Pay for Long-Term Care Insurance

    Aug 15, 2024 | flatlandkc.org | Chris Lester

    Share this story 3 minute readHere’s the long-term care problem for many middle-income people: They want to buy a long-term care policy to defray the staggering care costs they could incur in the future but lack the cash for its premiums. There may be a solution, thanks to the SECURE 2.0 law of 2022. Roughly 70% of people over 65 will eventually need help with the activities of daily living, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

  • The Overlooked Downsides of Aging in Place

    Aug 8, 2024 | flatlandkc.org | Chris Lester

    Share this story 4 minute readWhile Americans these days seem to have marked differences of opinion on many topics, there is one subject that enjoys almost universal agreement. A recent study indicates that a whopping 88% of adults 50 and older say they want to age in place. On the surface, this makes total sense.

  • David and Beulah Bulkley and the Creation of City Union Mission

    Aug 7, 2024 | flatlandkc.org | Chris Lester

    Share this story 14 minute readDavid Bulkley, a Kansas City Methodist minister and social worker, in 1923 began telling his wife about his “terrible compulsion from God.” This apparently divine impulse, he explained, drove him to more directly serve what he called “God’s human sparrows.” Those were the broken individuals he could see from his office window sprawled out or sleeping, defeated on the sidewalks of Kansas City’s North End.

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