Six is the short answer. Between its premiere on May 2, 2018, and its conclusion on February 13, 2025, Cobra Kai aired for six seasons, totaling 65 episodes. There’s the number if that’s all you’re looking for. The more intriguing tale, however, is how a show that debuted on YouTube Premium—a platform that most people viewed as a curiosity rather than a serious streaming destination—managed to run for more than seven years and gain a respectable place in the discourse surrounding prestige television. The premise of Cobra Kai at the time of its release was one that begs for suspicion.…
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.
Daniel Matchett worked as a mental health nurse in Lancashire for more than ten years. That’s not a little thing. Mental health nursing is hard work that doesn’t get much attention. It involves long shifts and tough conversations, and it’s the kind of work that earns respect but not attention. Then he decided to run for office under the Reform UK banner. He put up an online campaign video and was the subject of a disciplinary investigation twenty-four hours later. There was an eight-second part of the video in question that was shot on NHS Trust property. Matchett showed up…
These days, it seems like every time the Education Department makes a new rule about student loans, someone goes to court to try to stop it within days. This trend continued this week, when a group of major unions sued the Trump administration over its latest changes to federal student loan limits, saying the new rules were not only bad policy, but also illegal. The American Federation of Teachers, the AFL-CIO, National Nurses United, and AFSCME are part of a group that filed the lawsuit. It is about changes that the Education Department made on July 1. As part of…
It’s pretty annoying to learn that your credit score went down because a company put the same bad debt on the report twice. It’s not a new debt. You didn’t miss a real one. The same thing was written twice and is now on your report like a second charge for a crime you already defended. That’s what tens of thousands of Americans found out when they heard that Equifax had paid $2.2 million to settle claims of having duplicate negative entries on people’s credit reports. The story about Charmayne Bradberry is what led to the lawsuit. She wasn’t turned…
In June, David Hearn was riding his bike and stopped near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He said he reached into the water to touch a piece of lining that had already come loose. He didn’t give it much thought. A lot of people wouldn’t. Tho it was only a moment, that event on the National Mall set off a chain of events that have now reached the highest levels of American law enforcement and made people question how justice is supposed to work. Hearn, who used to be an Olympian, was charged with destroying government property was a felony.…
The story began with a name on a building. Trump’s name was added to the front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in December 2024. That was enough for harmonica and drum player Chuck Redd, who had been in charge of the center’s annual Christmas Eve Jazz Jam for almost twenty years. He pulled out on December 19, five days before the show was supposed to happen. The show was free. He wasn’t bound by anything. But what came next was anything but easy. In that time, Richard Grenell was in charge of…
A lot of people got it when the first episode of Ted Lasso’s long-awaited fourth season started with Jason Sudeikis walking around Kansas City and looking a little lost. Searches for “Ted Lasso Kansas City” went up 600% in just a few days compared to the week before. That number had grown to 2,200% by August 10. The tourism boards woke up. Press emails from travel brands began to come in. The story pretty much wrote itself: a popular show comes back, a popular city gets some attention, and bookings come in. They didn’t, tho. At least not yet. A…
The timeline looks like it could be from a movie. A right-wing commentator puts up screenshots on X. Within three hours, a federal prosecutor gets an email from the U.S. Attorney General telling them they are being fired. No hearing. No official look over. Just a notice, and two weeks before a big Medicare fraud trial was set to start, work was put on hold. This is what the wrongful termination lawsuit against Will Rosenzweig is all about. It was filed on August 7, 2026, in federal court in Miami, Florida. Rosenzweig was fired after five years of working for…
Around December 18, 2023, millions of Comcast Xfinity customers got an email that probably didn’t stand out. It was another breach notification from another company, which said in a quiet way that someone had stolen personal information. Simple to ignore. It’s easier to forget. But the effects of that cybersecurity incident in October 2023 are still being felt, and there is currently a $117.5 million settlement fund that most eligible customers may never be able to get money from. In the usual grim way that these things tend to be, the breach itself wasn’t too hard. A third party got…
A clip from a 1984 movie about a teen learning karate in the San Fernando Valley is analyzed by film students for its narrative economy and is now cited by cognitive scientists in publications on skill acquisition. Daniel LaRusso is instructed by Mr. Miyagi to wax his vehicle. circular movements. Left hand, right hand. Day after day, seemingly meaningless, seemingly unconnected to anything Daniel truly learned. Then Miyagi delivers a blow, and Daniel instinctively and unconsciously blocks it with the same motion he’d been practicing for days without understanding why. Before the learner grasped the purpose of the lecture, the…