WEEKLY/SEMANAL - KANSAS CITY, MO

In early January, Jackson County Legislator Manny Abarca IV was elected the governing body’s chairman.

The Mattie Rhodes Center is expanding its Early Childhood Education services, launching a new Head Start program in Kansas City’s Northland.

The American Red Cross of Greater Kansas City and Northwest Missouri is offering winter safety tips as snow has moved into portions of Metro.

The football season winds down in two weeks. After that no more football at least not meaningful football. The double dose this weekend reinforced the finality for me as a fan. Glory awaits either the Seattle Seahawks or the New England Patriots, as does soul crushing, ignominious sorrow.