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Sylvia Maria Gross

Reporter, Producer & Co-Host of KC Currents

Sylvia Maria Gross co-hosts and produces KC Currents, an award-winning weekly news magazine that covers news and culture in Kansas City’s diverse communities. Her stories have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, The World and Studio 360. Gross grew up in New York City, Brazil and the suburbs of Washington, DC. She studied English at Yale University, and then spent a year researching arts education in Brazil on a Fulbright grant. When she returned from Brazil, she taught middle school math and English while completing a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University in New York City. She reported in New York about education and culture before moving to Kansas City in 2004.

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KC Currents
10:42 am
Mon February 13, 2012

Servers Tell All: Jeff Esparza

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Jeff Esparza is a local bartender.
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Ordering a meal at a restaurant can be a very different transaction depending on whether you're sitting at the table or standing with a notepad.

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February 12, 2012
11:22 am
Sun February 12, 2012

Mormons Return, Alumni Debate KCPS Future, Longview Mystery

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The show for February 12, 2012.  Click "Listen" to hear the entire show, see below for individual stories.

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KC Currents
5:16 pm
Mon February 6, 2012

Kansas Cuts Food Benefits For Some Immigrants' Families

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The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services recently cut off hundreds – possibly thousands – of immigrant families from receiving food stamps.

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February 5, 2012
4:14 pm
Mon February 6, 2012

Kansas Immigration, Servers Tell All, Cratedigger Tim Goodwillie

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The show for February 5, 2012.  Click "Listen" to hear the entire show, see below for individual stories.

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Education
5:28 pm
Tue January 31, 2012

Catholic Schools Want State Support For KCPS Transfers

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Catholic Schools Superintendent Daniel Peters at Holy Cross Elementary School.
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Local Catholic School officials are looking for state support for Kansas City Public School students to be able to transfer to private or religious schools.

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KC Currents
11:28 am
Mon January 30, 2012

Servers Tell All: Mark Manning

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Ordering a meal at a restaurant can be a very different transaction depending on whether you're sitting at the table or standing with a notepad. A recent event at The Writer's Place turned the tables on restaurant diners and opened the microphone for waiters around town to tell stories from their perspective.

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January 29, 2012
1:35 pm
Sun January 29, 2012

History On The Highway, Servers Tell All

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The show for January 22, 2012.  Click "Listen" to hear the entire show, see below for individual stories.

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Business & Tech
12:18 pm
Mon January 23, 2012

Incubator Planned For Small-Time Contractors On Prospect

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The community development corporation Blue Hills Community Services has been working to rebuild the Blue Hills neighborhood for the past 38 years.  And they've just begun construction on their latest project:  a $3 million energy-efficient renovation of a building at 50th and Prospect.

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KC Currents
10:38 am
Mon January 23, 2012

Where To Next For KC Jazz?

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A red light still glows in the back window, but Jardine's remains closed indefinitely.
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The gold Jardine's sign next to the front window has been stripped.
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The past few months have been rough for local jazz. Two promising newer venues, 1911 Main and Café Augusta in Lenexa, have shut down. And at Jardine's Restaurant and Jazz Club, one of the city’s most celebrated venues, a dispute between the owner and employees led to a boycott by musicians. The restaurant then closed its doors, and its future remains up in the air.

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January 22, 2012
5:38 pm
Fri January 20, 2012

Where Is KC Jazz?, Tuskegee Airmen, Veggie Revolt

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The show for January 22, 2012.  Click "Listen" to hear the entire show, see below for individual stories.

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KC Currents
4:24 pm
Tue January 17, 2012

Missouri Bill Calls For Schools To Check Citizenship

Missouri State Senator Will Kraus
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A Missouri Senate committee is holding a hearing Tuesday, January 17 on a bill that would require schools to check the immigration status of students. And it calls on police to check anyone they stop, if they have a suspicion it could be an illegal immigrant. 

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January 15, 2012
5:00 pm
Fri January 13, 2012

Black Archives, Missouri Immigration, Firefighter Louie "Scooter" Martin

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The new home of the Black Archives in the 18th & Vine neighborhood of Kansas City.
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The show for January 15, 2012. 

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KC Currents
11:44 am
Mon January 9, 2012

Psychologist Treats Victims Of Priest Sex Abuse

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Recent events in Kansas City have raised a new public furor about abuse by Catholic priests, but no one really knows how long the problem has been going on. According to the Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests, nearly 16,000 abuse victims have spoken out nationwide since 1950.

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KC Currents
11:25 am
Mon January 9, 2012

Origins Of The Mayan Calendar Myth

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Modern visualization of the Mayan calendar at the National Museum of the American Indian.
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Monument 101 from Toniná, Chiapas (Mexico) has one of the latest recorded Long Count dates, written as 10.4.0.0.0 (note the bar-and-dot numerals), referring to a day in the year AD 909.
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2012 is here -- much to the terror of some of the world's doomsayers.  It's the year that the ancient Mayans are said to have predicted the end of the world. Not so, say scholars of the Maya, who lived and live today in Mexico and Central America. 

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January 8, 2012
1:14 pm
Fri January 6, 2012

2012: The Myth Of The Mayan Calendar

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Debunking the End of the World

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