BPU looking at carbon footprint

A Girl Scout Troop from Overland Park donated more than $1,000 to the Kansas City, Kan. Police Department to help build an obstacle and training course for K-9 dogs in the KCKPD.

Related: Video of Girl Scouts presenting donation

Lisa Jackson, lead administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, joined up with kids from area schools, volunteers and Unified Government Mayor/CEO Joe Reardon to help in the United We Serve kickoff event at Kaw Point Park in Kansas City, Kan.

Kaw Point Park Web site
Friends of the Kaw
United We Serve Web site

A group of eight Kansas City, Kan. residents are heading to Guatemala this month to help provide health care.

Glenn Patrik, who grew up near the massive rail yards between Kansas Avenue and Interstate 70, returns home next week to play in the Kansas City, Kan. Street Blues Festival.
 

Here is the fifth episode of the Wyandotte County and Kansas City sports cast.

Kris Kobach, who is seeking the Republican nomination in next year’s Kansas Secretary of State race, won a Johnson County GOP straw poll last weekend

Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome Gorman announced Thursday he has charged Kansas City, Kan. resident Adrian Burks, 37, with four counts of pre-meditated first-degree murder in connection with the June 22 quadruple homicide in the 5200 block of Muncie Drive.

The weekly Caminos column from Kansan Columnist Rudy Padilla

By Diane Hentges, Director, Volunteer Center of the United Way of Wyandotte County

Adrian W. Burks has been charged with first degree murder in the killing of Amanda Remmers, James Warren, Peggy Castleberry and Juanita Castleberry

Burks is currently being held in the Wyandotte County jail on a $2 million cash bond

POLL: Should prosecutors seek capital murder charges against Burks?

Audio of Gorman's press conference:

The U.S. Attorney's Office said Thursday that it has charged 21 defendants in six Kansas cities, including Kansas City, Kan.

In his first head coach position, newly hired J.C. Harmon football head coach Calvin Davenport knows a challenge awaits him.

Three more Kansas City T-Bones will appear on the Great Plains Roster for the 2009 Northern League All-Star Game.

The Kansas City, Kan. Arts Network will be back in force on Friday, July 10 for July's downtown KCK Artwalk

Shawnee Mission North High School graduate Sammy Jo Claussen, who now lives in Kansas City, Kan., recently competed in a national teen chef competition and beat out 30 other teen chefs to be honored as Best Teen Chef 2009

The utility has formed its own Climate Protection Committee to evaluate the BPU's environmental impact and what steps the utility can take to reduce its carbon footprint

Related:
- Information on carbon footprints
- Kansas City Chamber of Commerce carbon footprint calculator for businesses (opens an Excel file)
- Personal carbon footprint calculator

Kansas City, Kan. Area Chamber of Commerce President Cindy Cash says Chamber members believe legislation would be harmful to community