WEEKLY/SEMANAL - KANSAS CITY, MO

The holiday season became a little brighter for two families last week as they received the keys to their new homes through Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City. It was a day the families had been anxiously waiting for and were all smiles as they stood before the crowd gathered on Webster Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas to not only welcome them into their new homes but to also show the finished homes they and many others worked on in the summer and fall of 2019.

“Music is my first love,” was Lupe M. González’ statement when I conducted an interview with him in 2002. The interview was one of thirteen I conducted as part of “Voices from the Past—Mexican Americans Tell Their Stories” (oral histories project funded by the Kansas Humanities Council).

We are down to the last four games of the regular season. By all accounts this has not been a regular season. With four games left where does the hometown team stand? Do they have it in them to make the Super Bowl charge we all expected when the season started months ago?