Barb Shelly
Barbara Shelly is a veteran journalist and writer based in Kansas City, Mo. She has been an opinion columnist, metro columnist, editor and reporter for The Kansas City Star and is currently a contributing writer for The Pitch and a frequent guest on KCPT’s “Week in Review.”
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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Cancer survivors and their loved ones who attend meetings of the Prostate Network in Kansas City have talked for years about a radiation treatment... -
A growing coalition of groups and citizens wants Wyandotte County to become the first place in Kansas to issue local identification to residents.... -
Updated at 6:30 p.m. June 6, 2019, with terms of the superintendent's buyout — The Center School District must pay more than $400,000 to buy out the... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Once a week, Waynesville High School in south-central Missouri resounds with the celebratory air of a football game. The marching band has just...
