Too Much Pollution? Try Counting Syllables

Temperatures are up and bus fares are down, as Kansas City suffers another week of unsafe air. But there’s nothing like elevated pollution to fire up our inner poets.

Wednesday marked the eighth time this summer that the Mid-America Regional Council has issued an Ozone Alert. In the past three years, the air has reached an unsafe level so many times that the city is now facing tougher pollution controls.

Which brings us back to our inner poets.