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Seg. 1: Women in Soccer | Seg. 2: Police Twitter

Segment 1: In honor of the Women's World Cup, we ask what's up with the sport here in Kansas City.

We lost our professional women's soccer team in 2017. Kansas City isn't alone; the national league is having a hard time maintaining enough teams to sustain their seasons, despite the sport's popularity among girls.

  • Gemma Clarke, author, Soccer Women: The Icons, Rebels, Stars and Trailblazers Who Transformed the Beautiful Game
  • Greg Echlin, sports reporter, KCUR
  • Carrie Fry Robinson, founder and director, Finesse Soccer Training Academy


Segment 2: When police departments tweet, does that help them serve and protect?

The Twitter feeds of local police departments are often cheeky, whether referencing lusty deer and the traffic risk they pose during car-deer-crash season, or munchies on 4/20. What's that about?

  • Sarah Boyd, Kansas City Police Department
  • Danny Chavez, Lenexa Police Department
  • Raul Perez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Laverne

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Gina’s background combines print and broadcast journalism, live event hosting and production, creative nonfiction writing and involvement in the arts. Early in her career, she followed a cultural beat for The Pitch, where she served as an editor and art writer in the early 2000s.
Anne Kniggendorf is a freelance writer based in Kansas City, whose work has appeared in local media outlets as well as in the Smithsonian Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, and several literary reviews, including two as far away as India and Scotland.
Melody Rowell