Some people don’t need to win in order to succeed. That’s what Pamela Sued is. As a twenty-something with a natural camera presence and television experience, she entered the 2004 Miss Dominican Republic pageant, placed second runner-up, and somehow left that night with more momentum than many winners ever find. In retrospect, it’s difficult not to see that night as the start of something rather than a near-miss. Pamela was born in Santiago de los Caballeros on August 29, 1985, and was raised in a home where media was just a piece of furniture. José Guillermo Sued, her father, was…
Author: Sierra Foster
Sierra Foster
Born in Kansas City, Sierra Foster writes about politics and serves as Senior Editor at kbsd6.com. She was raised paying attention to this city, not just living in it. Sierra has a strong, deep connection to Kansas City, from the neighborhoods east of Troost to the discussions that take place in the city hall halls. Sierra, who is presently enrolled at the University of Kansas to pursue a degree in Political Science, applies the rigor of academic study to her journalism. She writes about politics in Missouri and Kansas as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to the people in these communities—the policies that impact them, the leaders who represent them, and the civic forces influencing their futures—rather than as an outsider watching from a distance. Her editorial coverage encompasses state-level policy, local government, and the national political currents that permeate bi-state regional life. Whether it's a city council vote or a Senate race, she has a special gift for turning complex policy language into writing that feels urgent, relatable, and worthwhile. Sierra seldom sits still off the page. She claims that playing soccer on a regular basis has sharpened her instincts for political reporting because of the sport's teamwork, strategy, and requirement to read a changing game in real time. She's probably somewhere in Kansas City with her friends when she's not writing or on the pitch, discovering new reasons to adore a city she already knows so well.
This story is especially unsettling not only because a well-known app is said to have shared private health information without permission, but also because of the type of information it contained. not a habit of shopping. not the history of searches. cycles of menstruation. attempts at pregnancy. windows of fertility. Most people wouldn’t divulge such information to a close friend, much less a major tech company. Along with Google and analytics company Flurry, Flo Health, the developer of one of the most popular period and ovulation tracking apps in the world, is currently facing a $59.5 million class action settlement.…
The way pharmacies in grocery stores run is almost unremarkable. Without giving a second thought to the number that is submitted to Medicare on your behalf, you give your insurance card, wait by the greeting card aisle, and pick up your prescription. For years, at the pharmacy counters of Stop & Shop, Giant, Hannaford, and Food Lion, that quiet, unremarkable transaction was at the heart of something much more unusual. The Massachusetts-based parent company of some of the most well-known grocery chains on the East Coast, Ahold Delhaize USA, has agreed to pay $40 million to resolve federal claims that…
The way this case has progressed through the legal system is almost quietly remarkable. No drama in the courtroom. At the time, there were no dramatic headlines. Millions of YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers continued to pay their monthly bills, probably unaware that a lawsuit pertaining to their subscriptions even existed, while the lawsuit, which was filed sometime around 2022, continued to move forward. Disney has now consented to settle that antitrust class action lawsuit for $50 million. The main charge is that the Walt Disney Company violated federal and state antitrust and consumer protection laws by using its…
Over the course of fourteen years of litigation, a certain type of frustration develops that doesn’t go away quickly, even after the verdict is rendered. Members of the Falun Gong movement had been suing Cisco Systems, the San Jose-based networking behemoth, for a long time. On June 23, 2025, the US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to end the case. The ruling did more than simply end a case. It may have permanently closed one of the few legal avenues available to victims of human rights violations abroad to hold American companies responsible. The lawsuit, which was first filed in 2011,…
The idea of a Rotary Club going to court is unsettling and almost subtly ironic. These organizations are founded on camaraderie, kindness, and selfless service. Every banner has the motto, which is repeated at every gathering and is practically considered scripture. It was therefore more than just a legal dispute when five former members of the Rotary Club of Kampala Ssese Islands filed an application at Uganda’s High Court in Kampala. It was an indication that something had gone horribly wrong. The applicants, which include attorneys Ronald Samuel Wanda and Robert Byamukama as well as Nelson Turyatemba, John Martin Sekwe,…
The concept seems almost counterintuitive. A rodent, rather than a federal infrastructure project or a billion-dollar engineering solution, gives a river in east-central Utah that is cracked and gasping due to drought a new lease on life. A rodent with a flat tail, buck teeth, and the ability to build dams, it was regarded as an annoyance in most of its habitats until recently. This is the tale of what has been happening along Utah’s Price River since 2019, when a group of Utah State University researchers started a low-key experiment to see what would happen if displaced beavers were…
Paleontologists discovered something deep within a limestone cave close to Waitomo on the North Island of New Zealand that subtly altered the discourse surrounding one of the planet’s most remote ecosystems. bones. Many of them. Sealed between two layers of volcanic ash like pages in an old book, they were ancient, delicate, and crammed into a deposit that remained undisturbed for about a million years. Remains from twelve bird species and four frog species are included in the discovery, which is the first significant collection of terrestrial vertebrate fossils from this era in New Zealand’s history. It’s a remarkably comprehensive…
A tarp hung over the Kennedy Center’s facade for almost ten days following the passing of a federal judge’s deadline, like a response that no one wanted to provide. On the evening of June 13, workers had taken Donald Trump’s name off the building’s exterior. However, scaffolding was erected that same day rather than allowing the public to see the bare marble. The tarp arrived next. It remained there. The Kennedy Center itself was not the source of the images that ultimately revealed what lay beneath. They originated from Hands Off the Arts, an activist organization that Mallory Miller, a…
Three weeks remained on Damon Landor’s sentence. For three weeks. He was almost through it all. He had served his time for a drug-related offense, maintained his faith, and kept his dreadlocks, which were worn uncut as a Rastafarian vow of spiritual devotion. After that, everything drastically changed when he was moved to the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center in Louisiana. Landor arrived with paperwork, worried that the new facility might not respect what the old one had. A 2017 court decision mandated that Louisiana’s Department of Corrections honor Rastafarian religious customs. He gave it to a guard at the intake.…