The Kansas City Star

My summer 2016 internship at Kansas City Star was my first taste of metro reporting and I couldn’t get enough. Because I had prior statehouse experience and the Star was between political reporters, I was able to use my previous experience to help report on a Kansas Supreme Court case that had forced the state legislature back into session to adequately fund public schools. I was able to break down the issue for readers in an alternative story format piece explaining the possible outcomes of the court case. I also covered a grocery store on wheels that was addressing food desserts on Kansas City’s redlined and impoverished East Side.

My Stories for the Kansas City Star:

Turkey through a downtown window? Call animal control

Leavenworth college acquires Civil War collection — including bone dice

GOP plan would cut from Kansas schools’ operating budgets to fix inequities

One possible Kansas schools fix may hurt some Johnson County districts’ budgets

Some steps could minimize chances for another Orlando, speaker says

Society for Industrial Archeology finds intrigue in GM Fairfax plant

Shawnee Mission superintendent: ‘We have a responsibility to the children of our state’

Veterans to commemorate Hiroshima at Truman museum

Kansas City seeks volunteer election workers for August and November

Four possible scenarios ahead of the Kansas school funding debate

After Dallas shootings, message is clear at KC area gatherings: The killing should stop