Finding out that your personal information was sitting on someone else’s platform for almost a year and a half can be particularly frustrating. This isn’t because of a dramatic hacker movie breach, but rather because of a feature that automatically filled in your driver’s license number whenever a stranger typed in your name and address. Between April 2023 and September 2024, Lemonade Insurance Agency’s online quote platform basically experienced that. Approximately 190,000 individuals are currently enmeshed in a $10.5 million class action settlement, which the majority of them most likely haven’t finished processing yet. A design flaw in Lemonade’s insurance…
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.
When employees of the Humane Society for Hamilton County in Indiana arrived one typical morning, they discovered something that completely stopped them. Before the doors were even unlocked, a two-year-old cat named Jenkins and a six-month-old puppy named Boris were sitting in the parking lot. The person who left them there did not stay long enough to explain why. Boris had gently covered Jenkins with his paw. That was not what he had been trained to do. No one instructed him to. He simply did. It’s difficult to avoid staring at that picture for a while. Just past the point…
Most truck owners never have the experience of standing on a commercial scale at a truck stop, watching the numbers rise, and realizing that the car they have relied on for years may be subtly operating beyond its capabilities. That moment, according to a former Toyota Tundra owner who recently posted his story online, was the result of what appeared to be meticulous homework rather than carelessness. He had looked at the towing capacity. The specs had been read. He thought he was alright. He didn’t. His camper, a 32-foot Grand Design Imagine 2800BH, was advertised with a dry hitch…
Sebastian Rucci will be plagued for some time by a phrase that was hidden in a blog post from February. “It does not touch a single drop of the Colorado River.” That was the promise, clear-cut, straightforward, and almost defiant in its assurance. His business filed a lawsuit four months later, requesting 260 million gallons of Colorado River water annually. Somewhere, something went awry. The Colorado River lawsuit from IVCM did not appear out of nowhere. Rucci’s company, Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing, has been trying to build a large-scale artificial intelligence data center in California’s Imperial Valley — a place…
A frozen dinner has a subtly unsettling quality. It remains unchanged from the day you purchased it for weeks or even months when it is kept in the back of your freezer. Nothing deteriorates. Nothing is altered. You believe it to be secure. This recall is important to pay attention to because of that assumption. The Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared on June 18, 2026, that Power Plate Meals, LLC, a business in West Fargo, North Dakota, is recalling about 5,795 pounds of its frozen meatloaf with garlic mashed potatoes. The product contains…
When you actually turn on a screen reader for the first time, you realize how much you’ve been taking for granted. The voice begins to read. In a calm, flat tone, the menu labels, button names, and navigation links all pour out through the speakers, describing a digital world that was always present but invisible to those who needed to know about it. It’s an odd and enlightening experience. Although screen reader support has been around for decades in different forms, regular developers, content producers, and companies creating digital products have only lately begun to give it the consideration it…
Every legal drama has a point at which it is impossible to ignore the paper trail. For the Trump administration’s Justice Department, that moment arrived in a Minneapolis courtroom, where a federal judge looked at six grand jury subpoenas targeting Minnesota’s top Democratic officials — and said, plainly, that the evidence of political retaliation was overwhelming. The subpoenas served against Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, the Minnesota attorney general’s office, two county boards, and the mayor of St. Paul were quashed by Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz, who was appointed by George W. Bush. There was little…
A certain type of legal document has significance even before it is read. With the full force of the Justice Department behind it, a federal subpoena shows that the government is keeping an eye on things and demands records and compliance. The message felt less like law enforcement and more like something else entirely when six of those documents ended up on the desks of Minnesota’s top Democratic officials earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz saw it that way, at least. The George W. Bush appointee used language that is uncommon in formal judicial opinions in a decision…
Patients are frequently the last to know when the FDA quietly withdraws a blood pressure medication. This story has a subtle unnerving quality. Every morning, you take your medication at the same time, with the same glass of water, following the same routine, and you have faith that the ingredients in the bottle are working as intended. A notice is then sent out a few weeks or months later. The medication wasn’t functioning as intended. It was never the case. And nobody gave you a call. Patients who were prescribed Chlorthalidone tablets, USP 25 mg, a common diuretic for high…
Opening a bag of frozen nuggets you’ve eaten a dozen times and wondering if there’s a problem with them can be subtly unsettling. After MorningStar Farms, one of the more well-known brands in the plant-based food industry, announced a voluntary recall of two of its frozen products due to possible plastic contamination, consumers across the United States are currently facing this predicament. The 10.5-ounce package of Buffalo Chik’n Nuggets and the 8-ounce package of Hot & Spicy Sausage Patties are impacted. Both have unique UPC codes and best-by dates printed on the packaging: the sausage patties have dates of July…