90-Mile View

90-Mile View: Dr. Gary Yarbrough

Danie Alexander and Steve Kraske — Wed, 15 May 2013 23:00:00 +0000

Dr. Gary Yarbrough has practiced family medicine in small towns for 30 years. In that time he's met some memorable people.

90 Mile View: Saundra Hayes

Danie Alexander — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:20:59 +0000

When Saundra Hayes returned to her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, it wasn’t to become a neighborhood advocate.

90-Mile View: Nicole Wright

Danie Alexander — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:41:25 +0000

Recent events in the Boston area put the spotlight on law enforcement as the nation followed the investigation and manhunt following the explosions at the city's marathon.

90-Mile View: Eric Peterson

Danie Alexander — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:04:31 +0000

How many of us followed a childhood dream into the job of our dreams? Eric Peterson did.

90-Mile View: Rick Behrens

Steve Kraske and Danie Alexander — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000

Visit Grandview Park Presbyterian Church on any regular Sunday and, unless you know him, you're unlikely to distinguish Rev. Rick Behrens from his congregation.

90-Mile View: Sarah Kessinger

Danie Alexander — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Newspaper publisher Sarah Kessinger keeps a close eye on the goings-on in her neck of the woods, in and around Marshall County, Kansas so it didn't escape her notice when an area resident made it to national TV.

90-Mile View: Patricia Porsche

Danie Alexander and Steve Kraske — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:05:16 +0000

The last time Patricia Porsche was with us we learned why she became homeless by choice. When we left off Trish had just worked her way back to being employed and out of a women's shelter. Today we hear the rest of her story.

90-Mile View: Nicole Wright

Danie Alexander — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:01:01 +0000

When we first met Officer Nicole Wright last December we learned why this Kansas City, Mo. native chose to serve on the force and in the neighborhood where she grew up. Today Nicole returns to tell us about her first call of a day back in January that turned out to be her last call of the day.

90-Mile View: Patricia Porsche

Danie Alexander and Steve Kraske — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:44:35 +0000

Being raised to be self-sufficient, gaining the rank of Sergeant during six years of military service and maintaining employment as an experienced office worker doesn't add up to homelessness for most of us. Before 2007 Patricia Porsche probably would have agreed with you.

90-Mile View: Eric Neill

Danie Alexander — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Maybe 2009 wasn't the best year to decide to become a full-time dairy farmer but Eric Neill had waited long enough. Despite the economic downturn and some severe weather, Eric exhibits the optimism for which farmers and ranchers are known.

90-Mile View: Howard Blender

Steve Kraske and Danie Alexander and Danie — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0000

There are few images of the West as iconic as cattle and few people as optimistic as a cattle rancher. Just ask Howard Blender.

90-Mile View: Sarah Kessinger

Steve Kraske and Danie Alexander — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0000

While many big newspaper companies are struggling to stay afloat, some 8,000 weekly papers are surviving and thriving due in large part to the dedication of the people who publish and edit them. People like Sarah Kessinger.

90-Mile View: Rev. Rick Behrens

Steve Kraske and Danie Alexander — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:53:50 +0000

How do you make a 124-year old church in a socio-economically depressed inner-city neighborhood relevant? That's the challenge Rev. Rick Behrens has met for 30 years as pastor of Grandview Park Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, KS.

90-Mile View: Amy Farrand

Steve Kraske and Danie Alexander — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:18:12 +0000

"I've never been the kind of person to say 'I don’t think I could do that' but more like 'I’m gonna do THAT!', says singer/songwriter Amy Farrand and from early childhood that attitude has shaped her life both in and out of the music scene.

[VIDEO] Amy Farrand And Her Junk Cello

Julie Denesha — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:17:04 +0000

Amy Farrand builds instruments from found material in her industrial, West Bottoms neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri.