
Lisa Rodriguez
News Director at KCUR-FM (Kansas City, MO)
News Director @kcur. Recovering @kcmo City Hall reporter/newscaster. IG: @tilirodriguez | [email protected] | She/Her | Chile/KCMO |
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
kcur.org | Lisa Rodriguez
More than a hundred people gathered at Southwest Boulevard and Avenida Cesar E. Chavez on Tuesday night in solidarity with Los Angeles protesters demanding an end to immigration raids. Some protesters displayed the Mexican flag, while others carried signs that read "Solidarity" and "Immigrants pay taxes, billionaires don't.""These are my people," said Regina Guevara, a second-generation Latina immigrant who was born and raised in Kansas City. "What they're doing to Latinos is no due process.
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1 month ago |
kcur.org | Lisa Rodriguez
A Roeland Park man legally protected under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was not allowed to reenter the United States after visiting a family grave in Mexico. He's now back on U.S. soil, after he sued the Trump administration. Hear what Evenezer Cortez Martinez has to say about his experience. Cortez Martinez and his attorney Rekha Sharma-Crawford spoke with KCUR's Nomin Ujiyediin about the deportation and lawsuit. Contact the show at [email protected].
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2 months ago |
kcur.org | Lisa Rodriguez
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.
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Dec 5, 2024 |
krcu.org | Lisa Rodriguez
With no fanfare, Sandra Hemme, the Missouri woman who spent 43 years in prison for a murder she did not commit, is finally free of the legal system. Livingston County Circuit Court Judge Ryan Horsman, who found Hemme innocent last summer, signed the final order on Tuesday that granted her freedom. The order from Horsman was a little more than a page long. “Sandra Hemme is hereby permanently and unconditionally discharged from custody,” the judge wrote.
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Dec 4, 2024 |
kcur.org | Lisa Rodriguez
With no fanfare, Sandra Hemme, the Missouri woman who spent 43 years in prison for a murder she did not commit, is finally free of the legal system. Livingston County Circuit Court Judge Ryan Horsman, who found Hemme innocent last summer, signed the final order on Tuesday that granted her freedom. The order from Horsman was a little more than a page long. “Sandra Hemme is hereby permanently and unconditionally discharged from custody,” the judge wrote.
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