Barbara Shelly
ContributorBarbara Shelly is a veteran journalist based in Kansas City, Missouri. She has been an opinion columnist, metro columnist, editor and reporter for The Kansas City Star and is currently a contributing editor and writer for news outlets in Kansas City.
Barbara specializes in writing about Kansas and Missouri state governments, schools and colleges and health care.
Her interests include bikes, biographies, piano, people, family, friends, cats and kids. Her favorite pursuits are travel and hanging out on her front porch in Kansas City’s Waldo neighborhood.
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The Kansas City area is home to three agencies that work with the federal government to resettle people displaced from their home countries by war,…
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Students and families in the Hickman Mills School District will need to cope with major changes next year after the Board of Education decided to close…
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A consultant to the Hickman Mills School District said Tuesday night that four of nine elementary schools might need to close as part of efforts to cope…
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The streets near downtown Kansas City are still dark and quiet on this Thursday morning, but already a green taxi is idling outside of the City Union…
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Charles Foust received a tepid welcome when he arrived in August as the new superintendent of the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools. But after his first…
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Once a week, Waynesville High School in south-central Missouri resounds with the celebratory air of a football game. The marching band has just completed…
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In the cold of a Kansas City winter, Fran Marion and her two teenage children wrapped themselves in coats and blankets in their frigid rental home. Marion…
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Leaders in City Hall and Kansas City Public Schools are just beginning to piece together a connection between Kansas City’s high numbers of evictions and…
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Children at Ingels Elementary School in the Hickman Mills School District are used to seeing empty desks.Ingels is a “high churn” school, meaning students…
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A coalition of social justice groups is pushing for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County to become the first government in the Kansas City area to…