E.J. & Ellen's Person of the Week

In 2003, Julie Moise remembers saying, "Oh good, it's just the flu." Then her baby, Ian, grew sicker and died of flu complications. Kansas City's Morning News March 08, 2019 - 12:30 pm Baby's tragic death inspires couple's flu vaccine campaign Julie and Glen Moise know from their family's...

Kansas City, MO - Paul Kavanaugh is an attorney in Kansas City who decided to take some of his earnings to form a charitable foundation that is helping people thousands of miles from home. "I grew up in a large family, five brothers and sisters, and we all grew up on welfare," Kavanaugh remembers...

Kansas City, MO - Peter Newman is a certified public accountant who has hosted Moneyline on KMBZ for more than 30 years. Peter was born in Vienna, Austria in 1938, not too long after the Nazis took over. He and his family are Jewish. Peter and his parents fled Austria for Yugoslavia. They then fled...

Kansas City, MO - The name of Bruce R. Watkins is found across Kansas City - the stretch of Highway 71, the Bruce R. Watkins Heritage Center and Watkins Brothers Memorial Chapel. "He was the first African-American elected to citywide office, City Council," said his son, Bruce R. Watkins Jr. "Before...